(Global Test Supply: Wilmington, NC) -- Global Test Supply has announced that Inc. magazine ranked it as No. 800 on its fourth-annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.

(IHI: Cambridge, MA) -- It is the most significant health-care leadership challenge of our time: how to reduce expenses while improving quality. At first, the trade-off seems unavoidable. As expenses decrease, so too must quality, right? Not necessarily.

(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) has announced a CEO succession plan in which James P. Womack, Ph.D., founder, chairman, and CEO, will step down on Sept. 27.

Whether I am speaking about lean to an audience of one or 100, if the conversation goes on long enough the question inevitably arises: “What’s next for lean?” I always manage an answer, typically tying it to the theme of the discussion, speech, or intended teaching

(Business901: San Diego) -- The Customer Identification Program has been released by Six Sigma Marketing Institute and can be found at http://DrivingMarketShare.com.

(Baumer: Southington, CT) -- For machine vision applications requiring high speed and high resolutions, Baumer has introduced its new SXG Dual GigE cameras that are capable of transferring data as fast as 240 MB/s at distances up to 100 meters.

(Rally: Boulder, CO) -- Rally, a provider of Agile application life-cycle management (ALM), recently announced new filtering features and performance metrics in its AgileZen product.

(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Encouraging a long overdue shift in thinking,

Saving money, increasing profits, and dramatically boosting productivity using lean Six Sigma was the privilege of big corporations that could afford lengthy educational programs, loaded with statistics and lead by expensive consultants.