Endorsing Organisations

The British Quality Foundation (BQF) is a not-for-profit membership organisation that promotes business excellence to private, public and voluntary organisations.

The BQF is Europe’s largest corporate membership organisation promoting performance improvement and excellence.

Visit the website for more information on the BQF Lean and Six Sigma Academy that offers support, workshops, networks, training and certification.

Website: http://www.bqf.org.uk

GOAL/QPC offers people practical tools and organizational skills to support teamwork and continuous process improvement within their organizations. Our most popular product line, the Memory Jogger™ series of pocket guides, helps employees at all levels to acquire and perform critical skills for assuring product and service quality and effective process performance. Our newest additions to the Memory Jogger™ series include Facilitation at a Glance! 2nd Edition, The Advanced Project Management Memory Jogger™, Value Methodology Pocket Guide, The Time Management Memory Jogger™, Coaching in the Workplace Pocket Guide, The Process Management Memory Jogger™ and The Innovation Process Memory Jogger™. Coming soon … The Lean Enterprise Memory Jogger™ for Service and Performance Management Pocket Guide 2nd Edition.

Website: http://www.goalqpc.com

The CQI is the only chartered professional body dedicated entirely to quality. With over 12,500 individual and company members worldwide the CQI provides support and learning to improve business practice. The organisation offers training and qualifications and promotes the benefits of quality generally throughout the UK and international marketplace.

Website: www.thecqi.org

The International Process and Performance Institute (IPAPI) is a membership organization helping people, organizations and their customers improve their quality of life through process improvement. The Institute is dedicated to making people's lives simpler, easier and more successful through the creation of educational resources, research, networking and domain knowledge.

Website: www.ipapi.org

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Official News Provider

www.youroilandgasnews.com is designed to provide CEOs, MDs, Business Development Managers, Engineers and Technical Buyers with up-to-date industry and project information.

Over 300 companies within the industry send press direct including the likes of BP, Eni, ExxonMobil, Marathon, Petrobras, Schlumberger, Shell, StatoilHydro, Total and Transocean. The press appears on the web-site as soon as they are released.

There are a number of Special Media Packages available on the web-site where you can promote your company to all the key players in the industry and further increase your companies brand awareness.

Website: www.youroilandgasnews.com

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Media Partners

Become a member of Six Sigma and Process Excellence IQ and receive complimentary access to resources that will keep you at the forefront of industry change.
You will receive access to our growing library of multi-media presentations from industry leaders, an email newsletter updating you on new content that has been added, free aggregated news feed from over 1000 global news sources tracking your industry and special member only discounts on events.

Become a Six Sigma and Process Excellence IQ Member

Website: www.sixsigmaiq.com

The BPM Forum is an organization that helps advance the understanding of business performance management techniques, technologies, and processes in global enterprises. The BPM Forum brings together influential business line managers and senior executives overseeing enterprise finance, operations, and technology functions. Forum members join in the pursuit of innovations in business performance management, the practice of enabling organizations to translate strategies into plans, monitor execution, and provide insight to improve financial and operational performance.

Website: www.bpmforum.org/

Six Sigma City is the premier job board and information portal for those working in the business change and continuous improvement market. Lean Six Sigma professionals can find a vast array of information from Green Belt and Black Belt training courses to Six Sigma Recruitment services along with industry news and updates. Whether you are seeking your next move, or want to get actively involved in the UK and European Lean Sigma marketplace Six Sigma City offers you the news, reviews and information that matters.

IMPROVEMENTANDINNOVATION.COM is the dedicated online information resource for business improvement, operational excellence and product and service innovation. Our knowledge portfolio incorporates leadership, strategy, employee engagement, Six Sigma, Lean, Kaizen, Toyota Production System and much more. With an evolving library of articles, white papers, case studies and interviews, our global audience benefits from comprehensive jobs, training and conference listings updated daily.

Website: www.improvementandinnovation.com

Financial Services Technology delivers sharp, practical management comment alongside educational materials. It is a targeted blend of leadership and learning for key decision makers in government and private enterprise. Financial Services Technology’s track record of successfully delivering education, generating leads, and superior production quality has attracted growing industry recognition and some of the best contributors around. While our exclusive partnerships have resulted in proven market penetration – enhanced by the key associations, industry analysts, consultants and channel partners in each report.

Website: www.fsteurope.com/

BPTrends is the primary source of business intelligence for business executives and process change practitioners around the globe. Industry thought leaders provide analysis and opinion on trends, directions and best practices relating to all aspects of business process management. BPTrends is the most comprehensive, in-depth business process management resource devoted to educating and informing the market. The BPTrends BP Tools Reports are the most widely read reports on BP software tools available and our BPTrends Surveys are widely quoted. With over 20,000 members, BPTrends is the largest community of BP Professionals in the world. BPTrends also provides executive education, training, mentoring and consulting services.

Website: www.bptrends.com

NGP Europe will provide insight into how the industry can achieve its twin goals of reducing the cost of bringing a new drug to market whilst speeding up the time-to-market. Across Europe, pharmaceutical companies are waking up to longer development cycles and growing R&D costs. NGP Europe is designed to bridge the growing technological gap between drug discovery and drug development.

Toolbox for IT is an online community of professionals who share practical information on IT topics. This community enables anyone to access the collective information of a worldwide audience of experienced professionals, including 28 different knowledge bases ranging from business intelligence to wireless technologies.

With international news and case studies, Microsoft's customer publication for the manufacturing industry, Prime features the trends driving change in manufacturing: PLM/engineering collaboration, supply chain management, plant floor visibility, security, and more. Prime provides the ultimate overview on innovation across the manufacturing spectrum, with commentary from industry and technology leaders. For more information please visit the website.

Website: www.onwindows.com

From restaurants to department stores, retailers face pressure to increase productivity, grow profits and justify every technology investment. Retailspeak, Microsoft’s customer publication for the retail industry, provides retail technology and business executives with a digest of the key challenges in the industry, and the technology solutions that can address them. For more information please visit the website.

Website: www.onwindows.com

The Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) at MIT, together with its Educational Network (EdNet), offers organizational members from industry, government, and academia the newest and best thinking, products, and tools related to lean enterprise architecting and transformation. LAI is a unique research consortium that provides a neutral forum for its members to share research findings, lessons learned, and best practices.

LAI members enjoy:

• unparalleled access to international thought leaders
• unique opportunities to engage with customers, suppliers, and partners to solve problems and share organizational transformation experiences
• a constantly changing portfolio of thought-provoking knowledge exchange events

For more information please visit the website.

Website: http://lean.mit.edu

Oil & Gas Insight is internationally recognised as providing essential information for anyone doing business in, or with, the oil & gas industries. The publication provides subscribers with analysis, forecasts and company profiles on a country-by-country basis, covering the key trends impacting on global oil & gas markets.

Published by Business Monitor International, the emerging market specialists, Oil & Gas Insight is broken down into five regional publications, Asia, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East & Africa and the Americas. The Oil & Gas Insight website www.oilandgasinsight.com includes ALL the content from the publications and gives the added flexibility of exploring that content by country, topic or keyword.

Our publications are subscribed to by over 50% of the Global Fortune 500 companies. Why not take the time to find out why?

Website: www.oilandgasinsight.com

Automotives Insight is internationally recognised as providing essential information for anyone doing business in, or with, the Automotives industry. The publication provides subscribers with analysis, forecasts and company profiles on a country-by-country basis, covering the key trends impacting on global automotive markets.

Published by Business Monitor International, the emerging market specialists, Automotives Insight is broken down into five regional publications, Asia, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East & Africa and the Americas. The Automotives Insight website www.autosinsight.com includes ALL the content from the publications and gives the added flexibility of exploring that content by country, topic or keyword.

Our publications are subscribed to by over 50% of the Global Fortune 500 companies. Why not take the time to find out why?

Website: www.autosinsight.com

Telecoms Insight is internationally recognised as providing essential information for anyone doing business in, or with, the telecoms industry. The publication provides subscribers with analysis, forecasts and company profiles on a country-by-country basis, covering the key trends impacting on global telecoms markets.

Published by Business Monitor International, the emerging market specialists, Telecoms Insight is broken down into five regional publications, Asia, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East & Africa and the Americas. The Telecoms Insight website www.telecomsinsight.com includes ALL the content from the publications and gives the added flexibility of exploring that content by country, topic or keyword.

Our publications are subscribed to by over 50% of the Global Fortune 500 companies. Why not take the time to find out why?

Website: www.telecomsinsight.com

Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Insight is internationally recognised as providing essential information for anyone doing business in, or with, the pharmaceuticals & healthcare industries. The publication provides subscribers with analysis, forecasts and company profiles on a country-by-country basis, covering the key trends impacting on global pharmaceuticals & healthcare markets.

Published by Business Monitor International, the emerging market specialists, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Insight is broken down into five regional publications, Asia, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East & Africa and the Americas. The Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Insight website www.pharmaceuticalsinsight.com includes ALL the content from the publications and gives the added flexibility of exploring that content by country, topic or keyword.

Our publications are subscribed to by over 50% of the Global Fortune 500 companies. Why not take the time to find out why?

Website: www.pharmaceuticalsinsight.com

IMPROVEMENTANDINNOVATION.COM is the dedicated online information resource for business improvement, operational excellence and product and service innovation. Our knowledge portfolio incorporates leadership, strategy, employee engagement, Six Sigma, Lean, Kaizen, Toyota Production System and much more. With an evolving library of articles, white papers, case studies and interviews, our global audience benefits from comprehensive jobs, training and conference listings updated daily.

Website: www.improvementandinnovation.com

QMT Magazine is a multi-media business-to-business print and on-line magazine for the quality, measurement, inspection and test industries.

QMT promotes improvements in manufacturing processes and products through quality control and quality management, from automotive and aerospace to food and pharmaceutical sectors.

QMT is published eight times a year with free reader subscription for the UK and Europe.

QMT digital is a fully searchable, hyperlinked on-line magazine for on-line Global readership and also publishes twice monthly e-newsletters with additional circulation.

More information & free registration for QMT Print, Digital & Email Newsletters, visit www.qmtmag.com

The Lean Management Journal (LMJ), sister publication to The Manufacturer Magazine, is a cross sector resource for the lean community. Supporting context conscious improvement methodologies LMJ aims to provoke debate around which tools and techniques are right for a variety of environments. Reporting on case studies and revealing thought leadership on how to overcome challenges in value creation and team engagement, the journal aims to enhance understanding of continuous improvement needs.

Website: www.leanmj.com

Website: http://www.ilsf.ie

Website: http://www.supply-chain.org

Website: www.leanblog.org