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innovation

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Puzzlement

Permit me the opportunity to ramble a little, and then I will pull all my musings together. New York Times Puzzles I enjoy solving puzzles! I start each morning
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Are You A Role Model Leader for 2021?

This past year has seen greater change in the work environment than any year in my recollection (and that is quite a few years!). It has been a year of many
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To Do or To Be...Is That the Question?

My thinking on this topic was triggered by reading a recent interview of Michael Fisher. He is the CEO of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, a 130
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Three Powerful Questions

I recently had the privilege of attending the 12 th Annual Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Performance Excellence (MAAPE) Conference. There were many excellent

Let Us Now Give Thanks for the Munchifier!

Three years ago I put together a post for this blog about how to use a Raspberry Pi controller to get your Thanksgiving turkey to provide you with status tweets

MITEC is Our Tech

Last week, a few folks from Oak Ridge (ORNL), National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and Sandia got together with a few folks from MEP Centers and some of their

Only You Can Control Your Future

Or so Dr. Seuss was once quoted as saying. I don’t read Dr. Seuss as often I should, but it is not always good to put away childish things despite the

The Manufacturing Resurgence in Rochester

This article originally appeared in the FuzeHub Blog. Guest blog post by Steve Melito, Owner, Thunderbolt Business Services. “Rochester, the future is here,”

A Push for Making from NIST-MEP

This post originally appeared on the Urban Manufacturing Alliance Blog. Below is an interview with Mark Troppe and Heidi Sheppard of NIST-MEP. What is the

My Vision for MEP: Putting People First

In April 2015, I had the honor of being named as the Director of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP). Being a former small manufacturer and having
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The Baldrige Approach to Innovation

The Baldrige Excellence Framework, as a systems perspective, has taken a holistic approach to the important topic of innovation. This perspective comprises a

Zombie Coffee

Grow manufacturing business by picking brains Imagine: You find someone you’d like to connect with on LinkedIn. You email them to ask if you can “pick their