SPONSORS

We appreciate the support that these organizations have given to the inaugural Lean Product and Process Development Exchange.

If you are interested in sponsoring this year's Exchange, please review the sponsorship package and then call Katherine Radeka at (503) 701-3945 or send her an email.

Whittier Consulting Group, Inc. is a consulting firm dedicated to helping companies succeed with lean product development. Since 2005, we have partnered with companies in the medical devices, consumer products, heavy equipment, telecommunications and high tech industries to help them get new products into the market better, faster AND less expensively. Our clients include leaders from small, entrepreneurial teams to Fortune 50 companies. All of our select clients share a passion for creating new products that deliver exceptional customer value, strengthen market leadership and generate high returns.


In lean product development, technology is a key enabler. PTC's Product Development System's integral, internet-based, interoperable architecture provides the infrastructure to smooth the flow of product development information and reduce product development waste. Companies can streamline processes by implementing enabling technology that optimizes the performance of their knowledge workers. People, processes and technology work in harmony to ensure a smooth, predictable knowledge workflow that resolves problems as they arise, thus minimizing their impact on downstream processes. With over 20 years of experience supporting global product development organizations, PTC can help you realize your lean product development.

Targeted Convergence Corporation (TCC) provides training and software to enable companies to rapidly implement a Toyota-like Lean Product Development System, tailored to their corporate needs and culture. TCC clients have more than doubled their product development performance in 18 months, and expect the gains to continue to grow. Just as Toyota is dominating one of the most competitive industries on earth, you too can dominate your industry! We offer a half-day Executive Seminar that will explain how. Visit www.TargetedConvergence.com or email to Answers@ TargetedConvergence.com to get started. For additional information on Targeted Convergence Corporation: Answers@ TargetedConvergence.com or www.TargetedConvergence.com.

Based in Cambridge, MA, the Lean Enterprise Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit education, publishing, conferencing, and research center founded in 1997 by management expert James P. Womack, Ph.D. LEI helps organizations transform themselves into lean enterprises. Its management seminars and books help executives and managers develop the leadership behaviors that sustain lean enterprises. LEI's workshops and workbooks teach a variety of lean tools, ranging from basic to more advanced and including: strategy deployment, change management, lean accounting, value-stream mapping, lean logistics, and pull systems, among others. Its Lean Transformation conferences showcase firms making lean breakthroughs. And its Lean Enterprise Partners research program with a small number of enterprises tests new approaches to lean leadership and management. The Lean Global Network, organized by LEI, has 14 nonprofit and nongovernmental global affiliates in South America, Europe, and Asia. For more information visit LEI at www.lean.org.


The Lean Accounting Summit is the world's largest gathering of lean accounting proponents and will be held for the first time in Las Vegas. The Summit includes two influential executives as keynote presenters. Rob Pasterick, CFO of Boeing Commercial Aircraft and Robert Chapman, chairman and CEO of Barry- Wehmiller Companies Inc. have been will address the Summit during general sessions. In addition to the general sessions, the agenda includes 21 breakout sessions, many delivered by companies actively engaged in lean accounting. Learn from these companies and the world's leading authorities on the subject.


The Lean Learning Center was founded in 2001 to address the gaps and barriers that are holding back companies from successful and sustainable lean transformation. In addition to the advanced curriculum, the Center has developed a learning environment designed specifically for adult learning utilizing techniques that include discovery simulations, case studies, personal planning, and reflection - ultimately engaging people at a deep and personal level. We bring our unique lean understanding in creative ways to executives, managers, supervisors, agents and front-line employees.