Press Release

For Immediate Release

Productivity Inc. Lean Manager Certification Enters 6th Year and Sets to Launch in Monterrey, Mexico

SHELTON, CT - February 2006 - Lean Management is the global standard for business systems of the 21st century. It's all about building capabilities. Lean requires companies to make smart use of their resources, especially the knowledge and skills of their people. But, for many organizations there continues to be both confusion and misapplication when it comes to actual implementation.

Productivity Inc. has responded by partnering with the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University (OSU) in the development and delivery of the Lean Manager Certification (LMAC) Program, a carefully planned educational and interactive program designed to provide middle and top-level executives with the knowledge and hands-on know-how to help them drive Lean principles throughout their organization - the very principles needed to maximize efficiency and company profits on a continuous basis.

The Lean Manager program offers a unique instructional environment that brings together the successes of the business world with academia's critical research and teaching resources, a level of expertise and instruction that help participants "experience" the Lean philosophy and its implementation methodologies. LMAC is the first of its kind to utilize the instructional expertise offered by seasoned business and management educators combined with the real world, hands-on experience of business practitioners, and held at a major academic institution.

Over four non-consecutive weeks, program participants experience a series of learning modules focusing on the four key phases of Lean implementation: Plan, Pilot, Deploy, and Integrate. In between the weeks of training participants are required to complete homework assignments focusing on the application of the techniques to operations back at their own facilities.

The program has graduated managers from manufacturing companies across a variety of industries including, Marathon-Catlettsburg Refineries, Appleton Papers Inc., Duracell, Lear Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company, Snap-On Tools Inc., The U.S. Mint, Volvo Trucks, NA and many others. The program, now entering its sixth year in the U.S. will hold Spring Session on the campus of OSU starting in March of 2006.

The program, co-hosted by OSU and Productivity de Mexico, will be simultaneously launched for the first time in Monterrey, Mexico at the Cintermex Convention Center.

For more information on The Lean Manager Certification or any other Productivity Inc. conference or workshop, call 1-800-966-5423 or visit us on the web at www.productivityinc.com. For more information on the Lean Manager Certification Program Mexico, visit www.productivity.com.mx

About Productivity Inc.

Productivity Inc. is an established consulting and training firm delivering leading-edge Lean implementation strategies throughout the Global 1000. For over 25 years, our proven waste elimination and culture change methodologies have helped companies worldwide improve their operational effectiveness, get results and ultimately increase their return on assets. Our team-based approach to implementation ensures a transfer of ownership of the improvement process, to enhance and sustain enterprise-wide implementation. Our team has the ability and real-world experience to integrate the technical and social aspects of Lean in both the manufacturing and non-manufacturing environment.

Productivity Inc.'s global offices allow us to service clients across a wide variety of industries around the world.

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