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18 02, 2025

Can Original Business Research Help You Boost Revenues and Profits?

By |2025-02-18T15:13:26+00:00February 18th, 2025|Growth, Leadership, Profit Margin, Thought Leadership|0 Comments

You and your company have set goals for 2025 — but a month in, it’s already clear that 2025 will be a year like no other. Questions swirl around how tariffs and other trends will affect supply chains, consumers, and markets. Longstanding business relationships and practices continue to evolve. And generative artificial intelligence (AI) — or at least hope and fear about AI — is everywhere. But one thing remains constant: Your customers are looking for management and market guidance. The MPI Group can help. MPI offers research, analysis, content, tools, and thought leadership for consulting, corporate positioning, lead [...]

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4 02, 2025

Why Research Has Become Indispensable for Associations

By |2025-02-18T15:00:07+00:00February 4th, 2025|Leadership, Profit Margin, Thought Leadership|0 Comments

  Associations need to launch new products and services to attract and retain members — and drive revenue — even as pressure increases on association leaders to do more with less.    John Brandt, CEO of MPI Group, explains how data can successfully guide associations through this challenging time in the on-demand webinar, Turning Insights into Impact: How Associations Use Data to Drive Revenue.  “Data is essential because it provides clarity,” Brandt says. “It helps you understand what’s working with members — and what isn’t.”  Naylor Association Solutions hosts the webinar, which also features Bill Rowan, VP of Marketing & Communications at [...]

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11 07, 2023

AI in Manufacturing: What Your Machines Can Teach… Your Other Machines

By |2023-07-11T16:40:52+00:00July 11th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Next Generation Manufacturing|Comments Off on AI in Manufacturing: What Your Machines Can Teach… Your Other Machines

What’s the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in Industry 4.0? It’s not easy to answer. AI isn’t a single technology; it’s better described as a broad field of inquiry into the development of machines that solve problems normally solved by human intelligence (along with problems we can’t solve!). For Industry 4.0, the AI innovation with the most impact (so far) is machine learning (ML). What is ML? ML algorithms create models based on historic data that return accurate predictions when given new data. “Machine learning is not intelligence in the true sense,” says Scott Genzer, data scientist at RapidMiner, [...]

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22 05, 2023

NAFEM Helps Manufacturers Find the Data They Need to Grow

By |2023-05-22T17:06:44+00:00May 22nd, 2023|Customer Spotlight|Comments Off on NAFEM Helps Manufacturers Find the Data They Need to Grow

MPI Customer Spotlight: NAFEM For a manufacturing company, plugging into the power of a community of peers can be both a lifeline and a launch pad. No one knows this better than the 500 member companies of NAFEM, the North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers. These manufacturers are the foundation of the foodservice industry. As NAFEM Executive Vice President Deirdre Flynn says, “If you've had the opportunity to eat outside of your home... our members are the people making the equipment and supplies that allow the chef to put their signature on the dishes you love.” When manufacturers [...]

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