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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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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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11 12, 2018

The (Occasional) Wisdom of Inefficiency

By |2018-12-11T19:36:00+00:00December 11th, 2018|Alec Pendleton, Big Ideas for Small Companies, Business, Customer Service, Leadership, People, Small Business Advice|Comments Off on The (Occasional) Wisdom of Inefficiency

By Alec Pendleton, Big Ideas for Small Companies, powered by The MPI Group Many leaders think they know the Magic Bullet for Maximum Success: Efficiency! If only we could do everything in our lives with superior efficiency, they believe, all sorts of wonderfulness would be sure to follow. Profits would surge! Competition from China and elsewhere would dwindle! Our standard of living would soar! What could possibly go wrong? Well, actually … quite a lot. The Theory of Constraints, described by Eliyahu Goldratt in The Goal — one of the best business books I’ve ever read — makes it clear [...]

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