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Associate Sponsor

Accenture
Website: www.accenture.com

Through its Process & Innovation Performance service line, Accenture helps clients achieve measurable, lasting improvements in operational performance and growth. Accenture enhanced its long-standing operational strategy expertise with the 2007 acquisition of George Group a recognized market leader in process, operational and business transformation, whose capabilities and offerings form the foundation of this new practice. The Accenture Process & Innovation Performance Service Line takes a process-based approach to address key business challenges such as complexity, innovation and strategic cost reduction, in order to create a performance advantage for clients globally.

Track Sponsors

Nimbus Partners
Website: www.nimbuspartners.com

Nimbus is a global software company that provides business process management (BPM) applications to help organizations improve performance, efficiency and compliance. Headquartered in the UK, Nimbus has offices in 13 countries and has helped over 700 organizations drive business excellence. Clients include AstraZeneca, Barclays, Chevron, HSBC, JP Morgan, Nestlé, Philips, Shell, Toyota and Unilever. The Nimbus Control software application allows clients to capture, improve, manage and deploy their processes and supporting information to all employees across the web or via a mobile device. Nimbus Control is available either installed or as a software as a service (SaaS) solution.

Process Management International (PMI)
Website: www.pmi.co.uk

Process Management International (PMI); a provider of business improvement and process excellence consultancy and training. Headquartered in the UK with global delivery capability, we have been helping clients improve their processes for 25 years. During that time we've worked with thousands of people through in-house and public training and consultancy. As the Lean and Six Sigma partners of the Chartered Quality Institute we combine our experience and expertise to offer services and support that achieve rapid, effective and permanent results.

Session Sponsor

Wipro Consulting Services (WCS)
Website: www.wipro.com

Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) partners with you to transform your business through a combination of business insights, technology innovation and deep industry knowledge. Wipro Consulting offers Business Advisory, IT consulting and Program Management services designed to improve business performance, drive operational efficiency and maximize ROI. With experts based in Western Europe, North America, India, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, our integrated Consulting, IT, BPO and Product Engineering services combine the benefits of expert proximity with global leverage to provide the technology edge and speed to your strategic programs. Wipro Consulting Services is a division of the Wipro Ltd (NYSE: WIT), a $5bn enterprise that employs over 90,000 employees across the globe.

Workshop Sponsors

Aorist Consulting
Website: www.aorist-consulting.com

Aorist Consulting is a process improvement and innovation consulting and training organisation, working across a wide range of industry sectors throughout the world.

We help our clients significantly increase output and reduce costs, and in doing so seek to:

• Do what is right for our clients
• Do our best
• Treat others as we ourselves would like to be treated

Catalyst
Website: www.catalystconsulting.co.uk

Founded in 1994, Catalyst specialises in Lean, Six Sigma, Business Process Improvement, People Skills Development and Managing Change. We are customer focused, take a flexible approach and act as real catalysts to enable results in your business by accelerating the rate of change. Our people, based in the UK and internationally, come from a diverse range of sectors and are experts in their subjects. Our materials are highly acclaimed, are easy to follow and are available in several languages. We are always happy to develop or tailor programmes to meet your specific requirements. Covering both the Public and Private Sectors, Service and Manufacturing, we have over 70 ‘blue chip’ and international clients including BT, AstraZeneca, Sun Microsystems, Siemens, Saint-Gobain, Airbus, Lloyds TSB, O2, Yell, Volvo and several Public Sector organisations. The majority of our work comes as a direct result of recommendation from client to client.

BMGI
Website: www.bmgi.eu

BMGI is a leading global provider of results driven performance excellence and innovation solutions. Specialising in strategic problem solving, BMGI works with leading companies around the globe to help “in-source” new capability and develop new core competencies. Working in partnership with clients across industries as diverse as health care, finance, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing and energy, we deliver integrated methodologies to achieve breakthrough results in operational excellence and innovation. BMGI has offices in 12 countries and has more than 150 employees worldwide.

Improvement Tool and Technology Sponsors

Minitab
Website: www.minitab.co.uk

Minitab is the leading provider of quality improvement software. Minitab® Statistical Software - our flagship product – has been used to implement virtually every major Six Sigma initiative around the world. Quality Companion by Minitab® supports and guides Six Sigma teams through projects from start to finish, enhancing quality analysis and reporting. Quality Trainer by Minitab® is a web-based training service that provides interactive, easy-to-understand guidance on how to use Minitab to analyse quality improvement statistics. Distinguished financial sector companies that rely on Minitab software, training and services to help them achieve world-class quality include Deutsch Bank AG, Standard Life Group as well as leading Six Sigma consultants.

Lightfoot
Website: www.lightfootsolutions.com

Lightfoot offers organisations better insight by helping them manage and monitor performance dynamically, online 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Lightfoot’s unique signalsfromnoise® toolset has been specifically engineered to alert all staff to any significant events and changes in the data. The system uses dashboards and charts to explore root causes of events enabling immediate and sustainable action to be taken.

Featured Exhibitors

iGrafx®
Website: www.igrafx.co.uk

iGrafx® is a leading, Gartner recognised provider of comprehensive Business Process Analysis (BPA) solutions. Our solutions help organisations large and small document, analyse, improve, manage, and align processes and technologies integral to their business operations. iGrafx solutions enable companies to achieve process excellence in a controlled, centralised and collaborative manner across functional boundaries, geographies, and levels of maturity.

PowerSteering Software
Website: www.powersteeringsoftware.com

PowerSteering Software is the leader in On-Demand Enterprise PPM software for Lean Six Sigma, IT Portfolio Management, New Product Development and other enterprise initiatives. Its easy-to-use software provides executives at Boots, Bombardier, Lloyds, Linde, Ingersoll-Rand, the UK Highways Agency, the UK Ministry of Defence, and over 140 other customers with executive visibility, strategy alignment, and enhanced team productivity to drive strategy and accelerate results across the enterprise.

Rath & Strong
Website: www.rathstrong.com

Exhibitor

Instantis is a leading provider of on-demand project and portfolio management software used by business process and IT leaders to improve strategy execution and financial performance. We do this by providing an end-to-end solution to manage, track, and report on enterprise Strategies, Processes, Projects, Portfolios, Resources, Costs and Benefits.

Leading global corporations like Baxter, BP, Credit Suisse, France Telecom, Lenovo and Xerox rely on a single system called EnterpriseTrack™ to fulfill the distinctive requirements of their strategic project portfolios such as Lean Six Sigma, IT/PMO and new product development. Unlike competitive alternatives, EnterpriseTrack is easy to deploy quickly, easy to use and administer, and easy to afford.

Website: www.instantis.com

Award Sponsors

Accenture
Website: www.accenture.com

Through its Process & Innovation Performance service line, Accenture helps clients achieve measurable, lasting improvements in operational performance and growth. Accenture enhanced its long-standing operational strategy expertise with the 2007 acquisition of George Group a recognized market leader in process, operational and business transformation, whose capabilities and offerings form the foundation of this new practice. The Accenture Process & Innovation Performance Service Line takes a process-based approach to address key business challenges such as complexity, innovation and strategic cost reduction, in order to create a performance advantage for clients globally.