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• Category: Adaptable Business
  • The Informal Feedback Formula
  • Five Things Dictating How Bad It Will Be Coming Out of the Pandemic
  • How Will Your Business Respond to Coronavirus?
  • Creating an Effective Work Environment in the time of COVID
  • Watch out! Main Concerns for Business in 2020
  • Need for Doing Business in a Different Way
  • How to Find the Time to Become an Adaptive and Agile Organization
• Category: Change Management
  • MetaExpert Andy Rocks ROI for Healthcare Transportation Company
  • Why Kickoff Training is the Key to Successful Transformation: Guest Blog by MetaExpert Gregg Young
  • Executive Excellence Series (1 of 50): When You Fail to Communicate the Rationale Behind Decisions
  • Change Management Experts: Our Children!
• Category: Digital Transformation
  • 5 Keys to Choosing a Digital Transformation Specialist
  • 5 Ways a Digital Transformation Will Transform Your Business
  • 4 Common Digital Transformation Questions Answered
  • 5 Top Digital Transformation Projects to Consider and Why
  • Three Keys to Success in Digitization & Digital Transformation
  • 5 Reasons Why Your Organization Should Embrace Digital Transformation
  • 5 Reasons Why Organizations Find It Hard to Go Digital
• Category: Innovation
  • Voice of the Customer - Getting it Right
  • Successful Brands Align Inside Reality with Outside Perceptions
  • Does Your Organization Need A Learning Management System?
  • Improve the Decision-Making Process for Industry 4.0
  • So, What's the Next Industrial Revolution Really?
• Category: Intelligent Enterprise
• Category: Interim Talent
  • What Is an Interim Manager? How Do They Add Value to the Organization?
  • Interim Talent Checklist: Ask These Questions Before Your Next Hire
  • 7 Benefits of a Contingent Workforce You Can't Ignore
  • ESOP - How It Can Help Close the Talent Gap & Resolve Shortages
  • 4 Top Ways Interim Talent Can Relieve Pain From the Labor Shortage
  • What Is Interim Talent?
  • Is Interim Talent the Same as Consulting?
• Category: Leadership
  • Same Circus, Different Clowns
  • Building The Right Team
  • Create Progress Through Feedback
  • How to be a Better Leader Following the Pandemic
  • Plant a Tree to Grow Empowerment & Accountability
  • 6 Ways to Transform Culture Part 2
  • 6 Ways to Transform Culture Part 1
  • How to Lead from a Distance
  • The Secret of Every High-Performance Organization
  • How to Lead Through a Crisis
  • How MetaExpert Marc Helped to Upgrade Production & Keep Revenue Flowing
  • MetaExpert Scott Assembles SME Super Team to Restore Pharmaceutical Shortage
  • Supply Chain Horror Stories Part I
  • Automotive Giant Back on Top with MetaExpert Help
  • MetaExpert Ron Slashed Excess Freight
  • John Helps the US Air Force Reduce Waste
  • Increase Profits with Operational Excellence Training
  • What Is the Cost of Safety?
  • Training That Creates Mutual Accountability: Guest Blog by MetaExpert Andy Goldstrom
  • Why Interim Executives Are the Private Equity Industry's Best Solution to Being Under-Resourced — Guest Blog by MetaExpert Bob Flynn
  • Lean Leader's Checklist: How to Set Lean Leadership and Management Expectations--Guest Blog by MetaExpert Chuck Intrieri
  • Executives, Here Are the Only 6 Things You Need to Know About Disruption to Be a Disruptor
  • Guest Blog by MetaExpert Giusseppe Lovecchio: Achieving Supply Chain Operational Excellence by Unlocking the Great Potential In Every Organization
  • Executive Excellence Series (6 of 50): Holding Meetings for the Sake of Holding Meetings
  • Executive Excellence Series (5 of 50): Assuming that Communication Can be Controlled
  • Executive Excellence Series (4 of 50): Failing to Offer Constructive Input During Employee Evaluations
  • Guest Blog by MetaExpert Giuseppe Lovecchio: Key Elements of Communication for Achieving Operational Excellence
  • Guest Blog by MetaExpert Richard Vales: Perception and Misconception and Operational Excellence
  • Guest Blog by MetaExpert Peter Brust: How Acronyms, Buzzwords and Jargon Undermine Operational Excellence
  • Guest Blog by MetaExpert Bob Forshay: Communication's Essential Role in Achieving Operational Excellence
  • Guest Blog by MetaExpert E. Michael Gray: Business Communication Problems and How to Solve Them
  • Executive Excellence Series (3 of 50): Spending an Exorbitant Amount of Time and Effort on Internal Presentations
  • Executive Excellence Series (2 of 50): When You Make a Promise Knowing You Can't Fulfill It
  • Executive Excellence Series: How Not to Make Insane Mistakes
  • Your skills are who you are not what you do?
• Category: Lean Manufacturing
  • 2 Key Insights for Manufacturing in the COVID Economy
  • How a Manufacturing Company Streamlined Operational Best Practices
  • MetaExpert Kier-Monti Packs a Big Punch with Protein Bar Packaging Overhaul
  • The 5 Benefits of Alignment Process Mapping
  • MetaExpert Michael Catches Manufacturing Error, Rectifies Process for Results
  • Interview with Joann Parrinder, APICS President: Innovating Ideas into Action with 5S
  • Interview with MetaExpert™ Gary Wickett: Are You Seeing All the Waste?
• Category: Lean/Lean Six Sigma
  • Why Smaller Entities Struggle with Developing World-Class Suppliers
  • Lean Six Sigma: How LSS Helps Optimize Operations
  • MetaExpert Holly Helps a Call Center Go Lean for Big Savings
  • Complex Manufacturer Saves $40-$60 Million In Lean Manufacturing Transformation
  • A “Lean Office” Can Provide Fat Increases in Sales
• Category: Operational Excellence
  • Your Guide to Managing a Contingent Workforce
  • Expertise On-Demand: Your Solution to Key Operational Challenges
  • Operational Effectiveness vs. Operational Efficiency – two faces of the same coin?
  • 5 Big Benefits of Improving Operational Excellence
  • Operational Excellence: 3 Proven Ideas that Will Transform Your Operations
  • 4 Reasons Why Operational Excellence Is Important To Your Company’s Survival
  • The 3 Foundational Elements of Your Operational Excellence Initiative
  • Six Of The Most Valuable Processes Used To Achieve Operational Excellence
  • Getting the Most out of Your Training Process
  • High Velocity Decision Making
  • How to Run a Successful Training Program
  • How MetaExpert George Helped Increase Monthly Revenue from $350k to $2.8M
  • Risk Management Strategies for a Risky Era
  • Direct and Indirect factors When Evaluating ROI for an I-4.0 Initiative
  • Freight Driver Turnover: 10 Ways to Keep Drivers Happy — Guest Blog by Logistics MetaExpert Doug Sartain
  • You Are Not a Victim of Your Supply Chain Suppliers — Guest Blog by MetaExpert A.J. Tozzi
  • Achieving Supply Chain Operational Excellence: The Roles of Communication and Accountability — Guest Blog by MetaExpert David Goodman
• Category: Process Improvement
  • Create Efficiency at Work
  • The Importance of Process Mapping
  • Changing the World One Process Improvement at a Time
  • MetaExpert Alan Comes Through with Concrete Solutions for Quality Control
  • MetaExpert Daniel Revamps a Major Retailer’s Logistics Process
  • MetaExpert Tino, Shines With Contract Strategic Plans
  • Is Your Company Ready to Adopt Industry 4.0?
  • Is “Consultant” a Dirty Word?
• Category: Rons Articles
  • Lean Six Sigma and Supply Chain Management – the Time Has Come to Converge
  • Lean Six Sigma in K-12 Public Schools Near You?
  • Lean Approaches to Rapid Product and Services Development
  • Lean in Service Industries, Sales and Marketing – The Time Has Come
  • Lean Tools Boost Competitive Performance in New Product and Service Development
  • Six Sigma – A Focus on Quality and Eliminating Variation
  • TOC Continuous Improvement Methodologies and Their Relation to Lean
  • Lean in the ERP World
  • Implementing Lean – Risks, Pitfalls and Avoiding Them Both
  • Implementing Lean or World Class Manufacturing – Don’t Underestimate the Effort
  • Keys to Success in Operational Excellence/Lean Six Sigma – What You Want to Know
  • Improving Your Productivity with Lean Six Sigma
  • Improving the Order Entry Process with Lean Six Sigma
  • High Performing Teams - Lean Six Sigma Depends on Them!
  • Hoshin Kanri and Policy Deployment – Demystified
  • Getting Lean Six Sigma Circle Teams to Work – It’s Not Plug ‘n Play.
  • Cycle Counting and Lean – Together
  • Can Lean and Six Sigma Play Nice Together – What is the Case for Lean Six Sigma?
  • Buy-in: Key to Success in Lean Six Sigma and OpEx
  • Applying Lean Six Sigma to Improve HR Effectiveness
  • Lean Six Sigma Supply Chain Procurement Strategies for Smaller Businesses
  • So, You Want to be an ERP Consultant?
  • Step Up to Lean: Why Lean Implementations Fail
  • Leveraging Lean Six Sigma - RESULTS in Business Process Reengineering
  • Lean in the Warehouse?
  • Writing Project Charters That Deliver a Solid ROI
  • Winning the Lean Game
  • Vilfredo Pareto and the 80-20 Rule in Lean
  • Traditional Accounting & Lean & World Class Manufacturing Implementation
  • The Skinny on Lean Six Sigma
  • The Missing Link in Leadership
  • The Art of Mapping - Process vs. Value Stream
  • Stop the CRAZY Waste
  • SCM and LSS Convergence IV APICS Supply Chain Management and Lean Six Sigma
  • SCM and LSS Convergence II Supply Chain Management and Lean Six Sigma
  • Process Mapping or Value Stream Mapping – Which to Use
  • Problem Solving 101
  • Leveraging Lean Six Sigma and RFID Together to Build a Solid ROI
  • Traditional Accounting - a Barrier to Lean & World Class Manufacturing
  • Leveraging Lean Six Sigma - Wringing Out Costs
  • Lean, Automation and the Medical Lab
  • Lean Thinking Companies Dont Throw Away Your Computers Just Yet
  • Lean Six Sigma and Innovation
  • Lean Culture Ask the “Why” Questions First
  • Lean and Green Supply Chain
  • Is Introducing Automation and Embracing Lean and Oxymoron
  • Compensation in the Lean Enterprise
  • Introduction to Pull Systems – Implementation Dilemmas
  • Implementing Lean World Class Manufacturing Means Major Changes - Recipe for Success (or Failure)
  • So You Want to Implement TEAMS in Your Factory?
  • Hoshin Planning and Nemawashi – Keys to Effective Planning and Deployment
  • GPR and Value Stream Mapping―Matched for Success
  • Developing a Risk Management Plan for Your Lean Implementation – a Distribution Center Case Study
  • Circle Teams Organization: Critical Questions
  • Circle Teams at Work – Stories from the Trenches
  • A Key Building Block for Successfully Implementing Lean/World-Class Value Stream Management: Communications
  • Assessing organizational readiness for Lean Six Sigma (LSS): Critical Questions
  • A Lean View on CLEAN
• Category: Spotlight
  • Does Resistance to Change Improve Outcomes?
  • The trouble with talent! Is that consultant you contracted with really a contractor?
• Category: Supply Chain Management
  • 8 Key Tactics for Developing World-Class Supply Chain Part II
  • 8 Key Tactics for Developing World-Class Supply Chain Part I
  • Strategies for Smaller Entities to Develop World-Class Suppliers
  • 3 Steps To Align Critical Supply Chain Activities With Corporate Strategy
  • Applying Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain - a Solution?
  • 5 Essentials of Inventory Optimization in Times of Uncertainty
  • How to Get Supply Chain Management Right During Crisis
  • 7 Essential Strategies to Manage Your Supply Chain During Uncertain Times
  • Control your Supply Chain PROFIT
  • MetaExpert Joe Uses Teamwork to Solve Order Fulfillment Problems
  • Supply Chain Horror Stories Part II
• Category: Uncategorized
  • What It Really Takes to Get Lean — Guest Blog by MetaExpert Karl Rickman
• Category: War for Talent
  • How Manufacturers Can Find and Keep Talent
  • Flipping the Script of the War for Talent
  • The Company University: Winning the War for Talent
  • The Argument for On-site AND Remote Contract Teams
  • Can You Speak Baby Boomer, Gen Xer, Millennial and Y?
• Category: Workplace Morale
  • Resilience During Hard Times
  • Functional Leadership in the Workplace
  • Prevent Communication Breakdowns in the Workplace
  • No More Monkey Business: How to Avoid Unwanted Tasks
  • 7 Ways to Make Human Resources More Human
  • Behavior Modification: What we can learn from our dogs

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• MetaOps, Inc. Congratulates Troy Bashant on his First Anniversary
• Arkestro Signs MetaOps as Official Implementation Partner
• MetaOps, Inc. Hires Arielle Cenin as Administrative Manager
• MetaExperts Announces Live Interactive Workshop for Executives: Leading Employees Through Covid-19 and Beyond; Tips and Tactics Every Executive Needs to Make it Through Implementation
• MetaOps, Inc., MetaExperts™ parent company, named to Manufacturing Technology Insights Magazine Top 10 List of Lean Solutions Providers
• MetaExperts Announces New Webinar with Multi-Panelist Remote Council of Experts: Can Industry 4.0 Supercharge Your ROI?
• MetaExperts Announces New Webinar with Multi-Panelist Remote Council of Experts: Can Industry 4.0 Supercharge Your ROI?
• MetaOps and Chiefofstaff.com Make Partnership Official
• MetaExperts™ Announces Third Webinar with Multi-Panelist Remote Council of Experts: Achieving Financial Success: Why creating metrics for operating cash flow and EBITDA improvements can lead the way
• MetaExperts™ Announces the Remote Council of Experts: Affordable On-Demand Online Access to Extreme Operational Excellence Professionals

Problem Solved

• Increased Revenue $8.2 Million and Improved Cash Flow Resulting in $9 Million Savings
• 100 Government Sponsored Housing Units in Just 9 Months
• Improving Production Efficiency and Quality Control in Heavy Manufacturing
• MetaExpert Achieves 98% Increase in Customer Satisfaction within 3 months
• $350k Saved with Improved Equipment Processes & More
• How Lean Six Sigma Production Practices Improved On - Time Delivery by 29%
• Leaped Market Share and Converted 4000 Stores in 90 days with Digital Transformation
• MetaExpert Brings Operating Cash Flow Back To Positive While Doubling Revenue in Under a Year
• MetaExpert Transforms a Family-Owned Business into a Corporate World-Class Organization
• Logistics Coordination: How a Tractor Company Improved Its Logistics in 6 Months leading to $700,000 in Annual Savings
• A Disaster Recovery Plan That Saved Tens of Millions
• A Simple Solution That Generated More Than 10 Million in Revenue
• How a $600 Million Telescopic Tractor Company Raised a $60 Million Line of Credit in Three Months
• Reducing Customer Complaints & Improving Customer Retention in the Automotive Industry
• Successfully Moved Financial Data from IDMS to Oracle Management Systems
• MetaExpert Reduced Consumer Inventory by 25%
• Food Manufacturer Increases Production Capacity 30% in 3 Days
• $40 Million Saved in Just 7 Months on a $500 Million Supply Chain Spend
• Value Stream Mapping Saved Consumer Goods Manufacturer $1.6 Million In Costs
• The Prosecution Never Rests—MetaExpert Discovers and Acts On Kaizen Improvements
• Operational Excellence Results in $1.9 Million Cost Savings
• Aerospace Manufacturer Avoids Steep Penalty Costs Passed On To Crucial Parts Supplier
• What Can A Manufacturer Do with IT/MES When There’s No Time Nor Budget To Waste
• Consumer Goods Manufacturer Repositions $500,000 of Over-Forecasted Inventories to Personal Protective Equipment
• The Right 3PL provider Increased Same-Day Shipments for Medical Supply Manufacturer 3.6 Times
• MetaExpert Helps a Call Center Go Lean for Big Savings
• MetaExpert Comes Through with Concrete Solutions for Quality Control
• MetaExpert Streamlines Process, Yields Big Results
• MetaExpert Revamps a Major Retailer’s Logistics Process
• MetaExpert Packs a Big Punch with Protein Bar Packaging Overhaul
• MetaExpert Rocks ROI for Healthcare Transportation Company
• MetaExpert Assembles SME Super Team to Restore Pharmaceutical Shortage
• How MetaExpert Helped an Oil Company Save $654K
• See How MetaExpert Saved a Telecommunications Company Over $5M
• MetaExpert Retrains Employees to Enhance EBITDA
• Check Out How MetaExpert Achieved A Record Throughput and an EBITDA of $30M
• See How MetaExpert Helped Release $15M of Cash Flow and Saved $1.5M in Interest
• MetaExpert Slashed Excess Freight
• Automotive Giant Back on Top with MetaExpert Help
• How MetaExpert Helped an Automotive Company Save $241,000
• MetaExpert Kellen Crushes Cross-Functional Disconnect and Order-to-Delivery (OTD) Improvement
• How MetaExpert Marc Helped to Upgrade Production & Keep Revenue Flowing
• MetaExpert Michael Catches Manufacturing Error, Rectifies Process for Results
• MetaExpert Vincent Steers Vehicle Manufacturer in Right Direction with VPS
• MetaExpert Joe Uses Teamwork to Solve Order Fulfillment Problems
• How MetaExpert Carlos Improved Change Over Time by 51%
• See How MetaExpert Charlie Achieved an 11x Increase in ROI
• How MetaExpert David Helped Optimize a Distribution Center Layout
• Check out how MetaExpert Richard used lean manufacturing techniques to save over $2M
• Learn How MetaExpert Eric Achieved a 72% Reduction in Defects
• Learn How MetaExpert Richard Used Accelerated Testing to Eliminate Customer Complaints and Product Failure
• MetaExpert Helps the US Air Force Reduce Waste
• MetaExpert Shines With Contract Strategic Plans
• How MetaExpert George Helped Increase Monthly Revenue from $350k to $2.8M
• International Electronics Retailer’s Distribution & Repair Centers Increases Labor Productivity in Their Supply Chain by 15%
• Turned $40 a Month on Pizza into Savings of $500,000 a Month
• Manufacturer Decreases Labor Costs By 20% for a Single Product Line in Only Five Days
• Call Center Productivity Increased 13.8%, generating $500,000 in Annual Savings, in 90 Days
• Complex Manufacturer Increases Productivity Company-wide 32% Through Employee Engagement in OpEx
• Manufacturer Embraces and Applies MetaOps, Inc. Operational Excellence Training and Sees $50,000 Profit Increase in 30 Days
• Consumer Products & Health Care Distribution Center
• Supply Chain Execution Transformation – Retail Technology Upgrades
• Retail Services Company Specializing in Technology and Social Media Solutions for Brands, Retailers and Consumers Achieves 75% Reduction in Consumer Support Issue Incidents
• Non-Profit Health & Welfare Firm Increases Customer Satisfaction by 28% and Increases Requests for Bid by 45%
• Medical and Dental Insurance Provider Increases Sales Volume by 11% the First Year and Improves Profit by $7.5 Million Annually Thereafter

Case Study Categories

• Aerospace & Defense
• Automotive
• Business Services
• Complex Manufacturing
• Construction
• Consumer Goods
• Financial Services
• Food
• Government
• Healthcare
• Information Services
• Logistics
• Manufacturing
• Medical Manufacturing
• Oil & Gas
• Pharmaceutical
• Private Equity
• Retail
• Supply Chain
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