About Productivity Inc.

Productivity Inc. is a leading international consulting, training and publishing company. Since 1979 we have been helping companies worldwide achieve lasting measurable improvements in cost, quality and delivery. Over the years, Productivity Inc. has researched the most innovative and effective management strategies and tools from the United Sates, Europe, Japan and around the world. This extensive research has resulted in the development of our Lean Management System, a system for the strategic implementation of lean management and a learning model for its deployment companywide. Productivity's Consultants and Trainers are manufacturing process improvement professionals with real world experience implementing lean manufacturing and continuous improvement strategies that deliver measurable bottom line results. They have an average of 25 years experience working in industry. Our consultants are first generation lean consultants -having worked with the originators of process improvement strategies such as Shigeo Shingo, Yoshiki Iwata, Ryuji Fukuda, and Iwao Kobayashi, implementing these strategies both in Japan and in the United States.

Like our people, our products and services are leading edge, and have been used by most every company in the Fortune 500. All of our materials can be tailored to fit the unique cultural needs of your business. Today, Productivity Inc. continues to be industry's primary resource for the strategy and tools to achieve competitive advantage.

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About Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University

The Ohio State University is a leading comprehensive teaching and research institution offering a magnificent environment for learning. Our mission is the attainment of international distinction in education, scholarship, and public service. Ohio State combines a responsibility for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge with a land-grant heritage of public service. It offers an extensive range of academic programs in the liberal arts, the sciences, and the professions.

For more than 80 years, the Fisher College of Business has produced exceptional leaders who meet the challenges of a changing global business environment through creative and effective solutions. In 1993, the college received a major gift from alumnus Max M. Fisher, a leading industrialist and philanthropist. In recognition of his commitment, the college was designated the Max M Fisher College of Business later that year.

During the past ten years, the college has undergone what could be characterized as a "corporate" turnaround under the leadership of Dean Joseph A. Alutto. Narrowing the focus of its programs to promote higher academic quality and recruiting and retaining exceptional faculty has propelled the college to the forefront of the nation's business schools.

The college's Center for Operational Excellence (COE) is a key vehicle for knowledge transfer. Fisher College's MBA program was ranked 14th in the Wall Street Journal's 2001 ranking of business schools, and 19th by the U.S. News & World Report's2004 ranking. Fisher College is now one of only 10 schools in the country with both the graduate and undergraduate programs ranked in the U.S. News' top 20. This success in large part is being attributed to the ongoing commitment to improving their academic programs and to the strength of the faculty. The college placed in the top 20 of more than 700 accredited MBA programs in the nation for research productivity.

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