Consistent quality and minimal variation across products equals more satisfied customers. Using Industrial & Systems Engineering strategies like work measurement time and motion studies, facilities layout improvement, statistical process control, measurement system analysis, design failure mode effects analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, work instruction and training modules, ergonomic assessments, supervised student projects and cost estimation ensures that productivity, quality and operations are efficient and effective.

Often, workers, with no formal project management experience, are tasked to lead major projects. Practical Project Management teaches the tools, techniques and best practices necessary for confidently managing projects through planning, execution, monitoring and review.

Whether you want to grow your business by entering new markets, creating innovative products or improving your marketing message—IES can help with multiple Business Growth and Innovation solutions. Innovation fuels organizations for survival and growth in the future. Our Innovation Academy equips your staff with a complete “Innovation system” with tools, training and approaches that greatly increases innovation speed. We offer many solutions, including innovation academy, technology driven market intelligence and tech scouting.

The Baldrige Model for Performance Excellence encapsulates our intent to develop and institutionalize a comprehensive, organization-wide, strategic-level Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) approach. We capitalize on using knowledge from other role model organizations and validated business practices to help you improve every business process within your organization.

Using a systems perspective, we challenge you to examine processes and eliminate steps in core processes that add little to no value. In other words, the aim is to take high performing organization to the next level, by reviewing how to maximize value and eliminate waste in all environments—operational, support and otherwise. We help you fully integrate Continuous Process Improvement across the key processes of leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, data analytics, knowledge management, workforce engagement, operations and their corollary results.

The model is built upon eleven core principles and concepts. These principles and concepts are the foundation for integrating key performance requirements within a results-oriented framework. These core principles and concepts are: Visionary Leadership, Customer-Driven Excellence, Organizational and Personal Learning, Valuing Employees and Partners, Agility, Focus on the Future, Managing for Innovation, Management by Fact, Public Responsibility and Citizenship, Focus on Results, and Creating Value Systems Perspective