Michael George
Founder

Michael George is a thought leader and executive advisor helping Global 1000 companies and U.S. Government agencies truly connect strategy to execution and process improvement. His latest book, Fast Innovation (July 2005), presents new ways to increase the success rate of innovations while dramatically reducing time-to-market. Mike authored the bestselling Lean Six Sigma for Service and co-authored, Conquering Complexity in your Business, a guide to solving the strategic and tactical issues of product/service complexity. Mike founded George Group to help companies drive real improvement to shareholder value through the development and execution of critical strategic initiatives.

Mike began his career at Texas Instruments in 1964 as an engineer in integrated circuit fabrication, application engineering, and finally as a regional marketing manager. In 1969, he founded the venture startup International Power Machines (IPM), the first in applying digital Pulse Width Modulation to large uninterruptible power supplies that protect critical computers from power failure, including those used at the NYSE. He took the company public, and subsequently sold it to a division of Rolls Royce. This provided the resources to enable him to study the Toyota Production System and TQM at first hand in Japan.

In 1986, he wrote America Can Compete, summarizing what he learned in Japan, and subsequently founded George Group to assist clients in implementing lean, six sigma, complexity reduction and fast innovation. Mike earned a BS in Physics from the University of California and an MS in Physics from the University of Illinois. He is the holder of several US Patents for the reduction of process cycle time and complexity.