the consortium OUR STORY

Our Consortiums develop the World’s Best Continuous Improve Organizations.

CONSORTIUM MEMBERS BETTERING THEMSELVES
BY LEARNING, THINKING, APPLYING AND SHARING

Our member organizations have a life long commitment to continuous improvement and provide the support for their people to apply what they learn from benchmarking, collaboration and exchange events. We work hard to create cross-organizational improvement teams and develop relationships that result in the acceleration and sustainment of our member’s CI journeys. We work hard to develop the thinking to help members evolving their thinking to continue to be the best.

Why a CI Consortium is the Smartest choice to develop the World’s Best Continuous Improvement Organization.

A CI Consortium is a team of organizations that work together to help each other improve to become the world’s best.

OUR HISTORY

We were the first and continue to push ourselves to develop the best CI Consortiums for our members.

The journey begins with the High Performance Manufacturing Consortium (HPM) The Thinking and Focus – the 6 Characteristics of World Class
The Thinking Evolves – The Principles of Learning thinking become the focus for training and CI initiatives
HPM is recognized for its accomplishments by Sloan Management Review
The Alliance for Enterprise Excellence (AFEE) is launched Benchmarking is accelerated with member shared Lean Diagnostics and Metrics
The consortium pioneers Lean Thinking for the Office and Supply Chain
Front Line Leaders Training is launched to support the development of CI leaders
The Thinking evolves to include the entire extended CI Enterprise and is supported by the Learning Organization Diagnostic
St. Mary’s General Hospital joins the AfEE Consortium as the first healthcare consortium member The first Sustainability focused Consortium is launched
The Continuous Improvement Alliance (CIA) is launched – the first Healthcare and Service organization focused consortium
The Cambridge Capacity Consortium (CCC) is launched – the first not-for-profit organization focused consortium
The Waterloo Wellington Impact Consortium (WWIC) is launched – continuing to develop the world’s best not-for-profit CI Organizations. Organizational Systems Thinking is launched and accelerates the thinking of our members


	25,000 PEOPLE Learn – Learning opportunities for success in Continuous Improvement
	3,000 EVENTS Share – Benchmarking, Leveraging and Collaboration – Exchanges, Special Interest Group, Share Showcase, Benchmarking Tours, Best Practice Mission, Leader Exchanges / Board Meetings
	1,000 ORGANIZATIONS Improve – Exchange knowledge and resources to accelerate their journey
	20 CONSORTIUMS WORLDWIDE Our CI Consortium model has influenced the development of Consortiums and partnerships across Canada, United States and Australia