Jack Welch Returns to Keynote Hosted by Rath & Strong at 9^th Annual Six Sigma Summit

Lexington, MA ― 10/04/07-

Another standing-room-only, enthusiastic crowd is expected for Jack Welch’s return engagement at the 9^th Annual Six Summit. It’s a good idea to plan to get there early for Rath & Strong fourth annual sponsored keynote session at the upcoming IQPC Six Sigma Summit in Miami.

“Wall Street, the pundits, and every magazine article about Jack underscore that GE’s market value grew from $13 billion to $500 billion under his leadership. But what makes Jack a star at the IQPC is that he resurrected Quality as no one else could have. Quality was once again exciting!” notes Dan Quinn, President and CEO, Rath & Strong/Aon Management Consulting. “It has been my pleasure to introduce Jack in 2005, Rudy Giuliani in 2006, and General Colin Powell in 2007, but Jack stands out as a hero to the quality movement. In fact, Quality had become a sort of dead science up until the advent of Six Sigma at GE. So, I’m sure we can promise a remarkable session as we host Jack again, back at IQPC in answer to popular demand.”

Jack Welch’s career since retirement and his management innovations and initiatives during his tenure as Chairman and CEO of General Electric are the stuff of legend. His vision transformed GE with four big game-changing initiatives: Globalization, Services, Six Sigma Quality, and E-business. And, along the way, he employed brilliant tactical innovations like “the boundaryless company”, Work-Out, and the concept of the “learning organization” to change GE’s culture and make GE the most agile company in the world.

Rath & Strong was engaged at GE Capital for the rollout of Six Sigma. (In fact, our famous Courier Simulation debuted there, and became known at GE Capital as “The Capital Courier.”)  So, we are honored to host Jack Welch’s keynote and the Q&A that follows at the upcoming 9^th Annual Six Sigma Summit where Welch will update quality professionals with his unique insights into business process improvement and business today.

 About Rath & Strong

 Celebrating over 70 years in pioneering process improvement methodologies and tools, Rath & Strong today is the leading global provider of Lean Six Sigma and Six Sigma solutions. Drawing from our expertise in both technical and behavioral areas, Rath & Strong has helped companies worldwide, such as General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Armstrong Industries, British Petroleum, Wyeth, and Siemens, achieve lasting change with advances in operations, leadership, culture, and customer connection long before most consulting firms even existed. Rath & Strong pioneered Lean methodology by helping bring this powerful concept to the West in the 1970's, created work cells modeled after the Toyota Production System, and became the world leader of Just-In-Time. Long before other firms, Rath & Strong applied Lean methods to services, transactions, and administrative processes and integrated Lean and Six Sigma. The company is the author of the indispensable Six Sigma Leadership Handbook and also of the WALL STREET JOURNAL'S Best Selling Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Pocket Guide and of the top pocket guides on Amazon to quality tools including Six Sigma, Integrated Lean Six Sigma, Lean, and GE Work-Out.