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BSI addresses the key performance indicators of its clients and implements best practice solutions that deliver improved operating and financial performance across the enterprise. We achieve exceptional results by enhancing applied business knowledge across the supply chain and then transferring that knowledge to the people and places where it will yield the highest return.
By unveiling internal synergies across the value chain, BSI has developed a formula for success that consistently exceeds expectations and delivers exceptional bottom-line results.
Community Involvement
As part of BSI’s corporate culture, the company is actively involved in supporting various charitable organizations within the community.
Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity (NAHFH) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide families in need with decent, affordable housing in the Nashville metropolitan area. NAHFH is part of Habitat for Humanity International and is one of the charitable organizations that BSI supports. BSI’s managing partner, Paul Lemke, is on the Board of Directors for NAHFH. Paul and his wife, Jeanne, are proud to support NAHFH in a variety of ways, including volunteer work, donations and sponsorships.
Business Synergetics International (BSI) was formed in 1999 as a consulting firm focused on guiding organizations in manufacturing, distribution, healthcare and other service sectors through value chain optimization. BSI not only provides expert advice, but implements from start to finish strategies and methodologies that are effective at driving both operational and financial improvements directly to the P&L.
BSI’s Experts implement productive change in companies across a variety of industries:
• Manufacturing
• Business Services
• Healthcare
• Consumer Goods
• Electronics
• Financial Services
• Food
• Wholesale
• Non-Profit Enterprises
• Supply Chain, Warehousing, Distribution, Logistics
• Retail
• Telecommunications
BSI will become the catalyst for unleashing our clients’ inherent competencies and growing their businesses.

Educational Involvement
As recognized leaders in their field, BSI’s partners are occasionally invited by leading universities to participate as instructors in programs aimed at enhancing the real world knowledge of business executives.
Paul Lemke, BSI’s managing partner and alumnus of Vanderbilt University, participates as an instructor in the university’s Owen Graduate School of Management Executive Development Institute (EDI) programs. Mr. Lemke will be instructing in the school’s upcoming seminar, Creating A Fast Growing Business. As a leader on international consulting assignments ranging from management turnarounds to customer-driven performance improvements, Mr. Lemke brings to the course a depth of firsthand knowledge of operational strategies that drive growth.
The two-day Creating A Fast Growing Business program is conducted regularly at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management in Nashville. Participants will learn proven strategies and best practices for achieving significant, profitable business growth.

BSI has been named a Music City Future 50 company by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce for both 2006 and 2007. This award recognizes BSI as one of the 50 fastest growing privately owned companies in the greater Nashville area.
The Music City Future 50 is an annual program of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce that recognizes the top 50 privately held high-growth companies in Middle Tennessee with more than ten employees, annual revenue exceeding $500,000 and projecting at least a ten percent growth in sales and employment over the next three years.
BSI is honored to be recognized by the Chamber for its dedication to entrepreneurial growth in the Nashville community and Middle Tennessee region.