How often have you:

• Struggled to engage customers and suppliers in the product development cycle?
• Had a difficult time locating all of the necessary information such as CAD data and product specs?
• Not been notified of a change impacting your work?
• Had to wait for IT to grant access to needed data?

ITE's capabilities will allow you to understand and implement the best solutions for your specific environment. ITE is unique from other service providers in that we use the same collaborative tools, technologies, and processes within our own business and have significant experience in what works and, also very importantly, what doesn't!

ITE is excited to announce its participation in TechSolve's Lean Innovation Workshop! In this two- day workshop, TechSolve and ITE introduce the basic principles of Lean Innovation, a concept utilizing accelerated innovation to boost company growth. Through lecture, simulation and assessment, Lean Innovation facilitates the process of determining which ideas to develop while also training how to effectively advance them. CEO's, Presidents and leaders of Marketing, Engineering, and Manufacturing have found the Lean Innovation Workshop beneficial as they've experienced a reduction in time to market and improvement in both first-to market innovation and project success rates.

ITE and TechSolve invite you to share in the experience and knowledge of Lean Innovation. For more information on registering for an upcoming workshop, please contact David Mackenzie.

"It is my contention that the opening of the Berlin Wall, Netscape, workflow, outsourcing, offshoring, open-sourcing, insourcing, supply-chaining, in- forming, and the steroids amplifying them all reinforced one another, like complementary goods. They just needed time to converge and start to work together in a complimentary, mutually enhancing fashion. That tipping point arrived sometime around the year 2000.

The net result of this convergence was the creation of a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration - the sharing of knowledge and work - in real time, without regard to geography, distance, or, in the near future, even language. No, not everyone has access yet to this platform, this playing field, but it is open today to more people in more places on more days in more ways than anything like it ever before in the history of the world. This is what I mean when I say the world has been flattened. "

-from "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman