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10 03, 2025

What’s Working? Who’s Winning? The 2025 MPI Manufacturing Study Will Tell All

By |2025-03-10T17:34:48+00:00March 10th, 2025|Benchmarking, Leadership, Measurement, MPI Manufacturing Study, Thought Leadership|0 Comments

If you or your clients need deep insight into global manufacturing metrics, you’ll get it in the 2025 MPI Manufacturing Study. The MPI Group has been conducting this Study since 2003, amassing one of the world’s premier databases of plant-level data. The Study offers insights into best practices and performance metrics across human resources, operations, supply chain, capacity/equipment/IT, sustainability, and other strategic functions. More than 20 different manufacturing sectors are surveyed via respondents in North America, Europe, and Asia, from companies with annual revenues ranging from $10 million USD to more than $10 billion USD. As with all MPI-branded [...]

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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|Comments Off on Can Original Business Research Help You Boost Revenues and Profits?

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|Comments Off on Why Research Has Become Indispensable for Associations

  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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5 10, 2017

Lessons Learned from the Cleveland Indians’ Historic 22-Game Winning Streak

By |2020-10-01T20:36:31+00:00October 5th, 2017|Baseball, George Taninecz, Operations Improvement, Process Improvement, Thought Leadership|Comments Off on Lessons Learned from the Cleveland Indians’ Historic 22-Game Winning Streak

Five winning traits that any organization should strive to emulate.

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