(Productivity Inc.: Shelton, CT) -- Productivity Inc., an international consulting and training firm delivering leading-edge lean implementation strategies, has broadened its participation in lean teaching through a unique and topical program offered at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business.

Ellis New, a senior management consultant with Productivity Inc., will be an instructor in the college’s Master of Business Operational Excellence (MBOE), the first of its kind in the nation and an innovative program that prepares high-potential managers for leadership in the emerging, rapid, and continuous improvement lean environment found in leading service and manufacturing companies. Today, lean thinking is spreading to companies and organizations in every industry and in nations around the world, where business leaders are adopting lean tools and principles well beyond manufacturing.

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