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11 11, 2022

The 7 Processes for Holiday Survival: Thanksgiving Edition

By |2022-11-11T19:24:16+00:00November 11th, 2022|Growth, Holiday, Humor, People, Process|Comments Off on The 7 Processes for Holiday Survival: Thanksgiving Edition

"There's a sale on Process Mapping, aisle 12!" At MPI, we help companies analyze seven fundamental processes that can deliver value to customers. This week we asked ourselves: Why limit ourselves to business processes when there’s another CRITICAL process in need of help — surviving the holidays! Introducing: The 7 Processes for Holiday Survival  – Thanksgiving Edition. At which of these processes are you great? At which are you ridiculously terrible? Analyze your performance now! Research and Development (R&D): Imagining, innovating, and designing great new products, such as your brand-new, organic, oddly flavor-free Artisanal Stuffing with Raisins recipe. We’ll [...]

7 11, 2022

Doing the Gemba Walk for Digital Profits

By |2022-11-07T18:34:43+00:00November 7th, 2022|Lean, Manufacturing, Process Improvement|Comments Off on Doing the Gemba Walk for Digital Profits

If you know lean, you’re already familiar with the “gemba walk” (quick refresher: the Toyota/lean idea of “going to the gemba” means to observe the work in the actual place where it happens). The Digital Transformation for Manufacturers project (an MPI collaboration funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce) has everything you need to know about how to take a gemba walk that helps your company become the digital leader it was born to be. How? By deepening focus: as a team walks through a facility, it identifies a digital weakness —and then team members wrap their cross-functional brains [...]