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23 08, 2022

Bringing Change Management to Life: An Interview with George Taninecz

By |2022-08-24T18:08:53+00:00August 23rd, 2022|George Taninecz, Healthcare, Leadership, Process Improvement|Comments Off on Bringing Change Management to Life: An Interview with George Taninecz

Performance Improvement expert and MPI’s VP of Research George Taninecz on the art of the huddle, the role of lean in healthcare, and his new change management novel, Winning Innovation. MPI Insight: George, you’ve spent your career as a student of performance improvement, in particular lean manufacturing. You had a front row seat to the advent of lean in manufacturing while you were an editor at IndustryWeek and then you eventually became a partner and VP of Research at The MPI Group. What is your work like with performance improvement at MPI now? George: MPI comes at it from a [...]

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8 08, 2022

Getting Out of the Customer Free-Zone: An Interview with John R. Brandt

By |2022-08-09T13:18:51+00:00August 8th, 2022|Customer Service, Interview, John R. Brandt, Process Improvement|Comments Off on Getting Out of the Customer Free-Zone: An Interview with John R. Brandt

The CEO of The MPI Group shares practical advice for putting the focus on process. MPI Insight: When companies are looking at making big improvements, innovation tends to take the focus at the expense of process. Why do you think that is? And what’s lost by ignoring process? John: Innovation's fun! Who doesn't want to create something new and exciting and be lauded around the world as the genius who came up with this for the first time ever? (Which is quite rare, by the way.) You're collaborating typically with very smart people, you're thinking about chewy problems — it's [...]

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16 05, 2022

Mediocrity, Malaise, and Mismanagement

By |2022-05-18T16:22:13+00:00May 16th, 2022|Business, Information Technology, Manufacturing, MPI Manufacturing Study, People|Comments Off on Mediocrity, Malaise, and Mismanagement

Why aren’t you paying attention to your manufacturing business? After nearly two decades of research on manufacturers, you might think that MPI could report  that documented best practices — benchmarking, training, etc. — are now common everywhere, driving massive performance improvements around the world. Alas, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, our MPI 2021 Manufacturing Study found many manufacturers struggling with — or outright failing at — the basics of improvement. It goes without saying that the effects of the pandemic can be seen in our Study data. Nonetheless, the overall Study results are shocking: [...]

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27 03, 2019

Disruptive Technologies Offer Major Opportunities — and Headaches — for Manufacturers

By |2019-04-01T15:06:17+00:00March 27th, 2019|Growth, Information Technology, Innovation, MPI Manufacturing Study, Next Generation Manufacturing|Comments Off on Disruptive Technologies Offer Major Opportunities — and Headaches — for Manufacturers

New study finds some manufacturers are ready to leverage cutting edge technologies — while others fall behind New research finds that manufacturing leaders are worried about disruptive technologies — robotics, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing, and analytics — and yet few are doing much about it. The MPI Disruptive Technologies in Manufacturing Study surveyed more than 400 executives at manufacturing companies around the globe and found that: 88 percent report that their industries and markets are vulnerable to disruptive technologies (29 percent “extremely vulnerable” and 59 percent “somewhat vulnerable”). 86 percent report that their own companies are vulnerable to disruptive [...]

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