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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 [...]
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: [...]