From Continuous Improvement to Continuous Innovation.
Developing Leaders – Engaging the Workforce – Building Long-term Capabilities in Service and Manufacturing Industries for nearly 40 years.
Productivity Inc. has worked with the Global 1000 since 1979. We pioneered the implementation of Lean and TPM methodologies in manufacturing and continue to extend these principles across a wide range of service industries. Today we focus on three progressive strategies: Operational Excellence, Innovation and Leadership Development. Working together these strategies provide the means to continually refresh a company’s value proposition while making the organizational changes needed for daily improvement and sustainable growth.
What we do…
Our DNA, derived from the Toyota Production System, and honed over four decades implementing cultural transformation in most all industry and service sectors, provides the foundation from which we guide management teams in the creation and implementation of an overall operational excellence and innovation strategy.
Guiding Transformation
We guide organizations in their transformation by assisting leaders in structuring and deploying their strategy and in developing the technical and cultural capabilities needed to improve and grow.
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Leadership Development
Developing Leaders at Every Level
In our interactions with manufacturing and service industry organizations there is a consistent theme to the problems they face as they work to advance operational excellence…
motion™ – The Management System by Productivity
Imagine… your customers are your best supporters. Employees at all levels know their customers and actively solve problems to better serve them. Leaders team-up to prepare their long-term plans and translate them into annual objectives and work place initiatives. Leaders and managers work closely together to set direction and provide sense of purpose. An organization of networked teams fully integrated and enabled. Continuous improvement and innovation in action.
What you are imagining is an organization in motion™ and, we can help you get there!
Innovation by Productivity™
It’s time to expand your thinking on innovation…
In a rapidly changing environment, current value propositions are not enough to ensure your organization’s long-term survival. You’ll need reliable pathways for creating new value to keep your organization in motion™.
Productivity has a robust platform for creating an organization-wide innovation capability — Innovation by Productivity™.
Our stories & resources
After several years of practice of design and innovation in large industrial groups and start-ups and a background in management and design, academic research and teaching, Géraldine Hatchuel founded Choregraphy – we design experience…
#2 White Paper
Developing Lean Talent
A recent study by executive search firm The Avery Point Group revealed that demand for continuous improvement (CI) talent is strong post-recession; it has more than doubled since 2010 and is up over last year. Of particular interest to the lean community, this eighth annual study also showed that the need for lean-centered skill-sets is accelerating, surpassing that for six-sigma-centered expertise.
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#3 White Paper
Lean Practices Support Innovation
To consistently drive top-line growth, leaders must commit to a disciplined and creative focus on meeting today’s market challenges while strengthening capabilities for future competitive mastery. It’s a matter of keeping the core business running optimally without losing sight of what’s on the horizon—and being prepared for and open to “creative destruction.”
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Kaikaku: Moving Beyond Kaizen
Andy Meyerhofer, plant manager at CertainTeed, was not sold on the 3P process when it was first proposed as the right approach to tackle a major project. In fact, he tried to sidestep it.
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Making Empowerment Real:
Four Steps Managers Must Take
Empowering and enabling associates is key to the success of any continuous improvement initiative. In this article from our archives, Ray Floyd, retired Worldwide Manager of Exxon Mobil Manufacturing Services, author, and Industry Week Hall of Fame inductee, reveals four essential ingredients to making empowerment real. In the article, originally published in the December 1991 Productivity Newsletter, Floyd notes that communicating clear goals is the first step managers must take to assure that empowerment works. Managers must also provide the skills to achieve the goals, time to work on improvement, and resources with which people can make changes. Even 28 years later, Floyd’s advice still hits the mark!
Read moreManagers Have 3 Obligations in a Lean System
As a manager, Lean production obliges you to:
- Be a good teacher;
- Be a consensus builder;
- Have a shop-floor focus...
Live at The Ohio State University’s Lean Summit!
This week we are participating in The Ohio State University’s Lean Summit – Leading Through Excellence.
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