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  • Marketing for Manufacturers Redefined – Webinar

    MassMEP 27A Midstate Drive, Auburn, MA, United States

    10 Tips to Implement Now

    Marketing is no longer just about trade shows, sales brochures, catalogs and a basic website. This workshop will discuss the changing role marketing plays in a manufacturer’s growth objectives and will redefine marketing in a way that will bring you to the bleeding edge of marketing's evolving role as a growth-driver.

    This webinar will also offer relevant and immediately actionable tips to maximize your marketing ROI and increase your top-line growth. Topics will include the rise of inbound marketing, developing content calendars, leveraging cost effective tools and automation platforms and adding in the right marketing metrics.

  • Integrated Growth for Industry 4.0 – Webinar

    MassMEP 27A Midstate Drive, Auburn, MA, United States

    How to Drive Revenue in the age of COVID-19

    "How to leverage Industry 4.0 to grow your business in the new global environment post Covid 19 by Spinnaker Venture Partners.” This information session is a snapshot of the training that provides a comprehensive understanding the role of Industry 4.0 and connected manufacturing to drive business growth in the world of new business realties. Participants will learn that Industry 4.0 isn’t just about investing in new technology and tools to improve manufacturing efficiency but that it’s just as important to enable new models for product and service delivery, revolutionizing the way that their entire businesses operate and grow.

  • Online – ISO Internal Auditor 9001:2015 – Small Business Direct Access (SBDAP)

    MassMEP 27A Midstate Drive, Auburn, MA, United States

    Who Should Attend: This course is recommended for anyone involved in designing, implementing, maintaining and improving a quality management system and/or performing internal audits of a quality management system, such as quality officers, managers and auditors. No prior knowledge of auditing, quality management systems or ISO 9001:2008 is required prior to attending this course.

    Course Highlights / Topics Covered:

    • The process approach, performance indicators and risk
    • The "Plan-Do-Check-Act” principle
    • The key elements of a quality management system, management of documents/records, deviations, corrective and preventive actions
    • Management responsibility, management representative and management review
    • Measurement, analysis and continuous improvement on customer satisfaction, quality management effectiveness through internal audits, process performance and conformity to product requirements
    • What are internal audits
    • Why are internal audits conducted
    • What preparatory work should be carried out before an audit
    • What to pay attention to during the audit
    • What is a good audit report
    • What aspects are important in monitoring audit results, corrective and preventive actions

    Students will benefit by:

    • Learning how to plan, conduct, and report quality audit results
    • Enhancing your understanding of the components of an internal quality audit program
    • Gaining an in-depth understanding of ISO 9001 requirements
    • Getting answers to your toughest audit questions

    Capturing a working knowledge of the practices, roles and responsibilities of an auditor

  • Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Lunch & Learn

    MassMEP 27A Midstate Drive, Auburn, MA, United States

    Manufacturers in the DoD supply chain are required to have adequate information security measures in place to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Starting in 2020, independent auditors will be assessing manufacturers' security posture, which will determine which contracts they can bid. This session will provide an overview of these requirements and the various options available to ensure compliance with them.

     

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New England Collaborative and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of Economic Adjustment, the U.S. Department of Defense, 
or the participating states.

  • Agile Manufacturing Lunch & Learn

    MassMEP 27A Midstate Drive, Auburn, MA, United States
    Introduction to Agile

    TRAINING DESCRIPTION:

    American business is grounded in innovation and while most companies start out with a novel idea, staying innovative in your industry requires dedication. Learn how the Agile Operating Model is helping companies stay competitive and encourages continual innovation. This course delivers insights into the Agile Methodology allowing executives to understand if Agile is a fit for their company. This course will also outline a few basic steps to help prepare a company for a successful Agile Transformation.

     

    TRAINING OBJECTIVE:

    This course is designed for company executives to learn the benefits of an Agile operating model and help them to evaluate if this would be something appropriate for their company. Participants will learn about the foundations of Agile along with the values that the 12 Agile Principles were built on. The course will deliver a few basic techniques to prepare for an Agile journey. This training will also include various examples of successful Agile journeys and lessons learned.

     

    SKILL ATTAINMENT:

    This course will provide a brief overview of the Agile Operating Model and the key benefits of adopting the methodology. In addition, the training will help to evaluate if Agile is a good match with your company’s culture and needs.

    Skills include:

    • Evaluate company readiness for an operating model change
    • Build appreciation for the Agile operating model’s values and principles
    • Understanding of Agile benefits versus traditional project management
    • Insights on new, more agile ways of working to better promote collaboration, speed to market, and innovation
    • Increased knowledge of Agile roles, tools and ceremonies
    • Awareness of how teams and product progress is planned and tracked within an Agile operating model

  • Leveraging today’s digital and social channels for manufacturers to retain and attract talent

    MassMEP 27A Midstate Drive, Auburn, MA, United States 
    Leveraging today’s digital and social channels for manufacturers to retain and attract talent

    Human Resource leaders in the manufacturing community are experiencing a major talent gap that is leading to a war for the most sought after profiles. The same way the consumer has become informed, connected and overall more powerful, talented profiles well suited for the manufacturing industry are more difficult to attract and to retain than ever before. As a result, a manufacturer’s ability to attract and retain the best talent has become a critical source of competitive advantage, but also requires new sets of marketing tools that a traditional HR Manager is often not equipped to deploy.

    Given this background, MassMEP has partnered with TribalVision – an outsourced Boston-based marketing firm – to conduct a workshop that will equip manufacturers with the tactics and tools necessary to recruit and retain the workers needed to support and fuel the next stage of company growth. The 60-minute workshop will touch on the following topics:

    • Building out the marketing assets needed to improve your "attractiveness score” with potential recruits
    • Deploying digital and social campaigns to target and attract potential candidates
    • Putting in place internal marketing initiatives to increase staff retention and morale
    • Developing a process to generate and post online customer and employee reviews

    This workshop will be presented by:

    Chris Ciunci Founder & Managing Partner, Tirbal Vision

    An entrepreneur with over 15 years of marketing experience,
    Chris Ciunci founded TribalVision as a forward-thinking alternative to traditional marketing models. These outmoded models stressed tactics over strategy, commissions over flat fees, and a one-size-fits-all approach over treating each client differently.

    Today, Chris oversees TribalVision’s strategic direction, guides our distinct client-first philosophy and spearheads our business development efforts. Collaborating closely with our clients, internal team members and external partners, his comprehensive marketing strategies revolve around generating new business and strengthening a client’s overall marketing efforts.

    An active thought leader, panelist and featured speaker, Chris continues to share his knowledge and perspectives at varied events throughout the regional marketing community. These events include seminars, symposiums and workshops sponsored by colleges, universities, marketing-industry groups and general business organizations.

  • Attracting & Retaining the Z & Millennial Generations for Manufacturing Worcester, MA

    MassMEP 27A Midstate Drive, Auburn, MA, United States
    Customizable technical training with minimal impact to production!

    With millions of manufacturing workers expected to retire in the next few years, rapid changes in technology and record low unemployment, employers are discovering that they need to do something different to train the next generation of the workforce. Manufacturers need to leverage new learning and development systems to attract new workers, accelerate workforce training and retain tribal knowledge.

    In this session you will learn how:

    • online learning aligns with how Millennials and Generation Z workers think
    • MassMEP can customize Tooling U training programs and manage their administration
    • the Workforce Training Fund Program may be able to offset some of the cost

    About Tooling U-SME

    Tooling U-SME delivers versatile, competency-based learning and development solutions to the manufacturing community, working with more than half of all Fortune 500¨ manufacturing companies, as well as 600 educational institutions across the country. Tooling U-SME partners with customers to build high performers who help their companies drive quality, productivity, innovation, and employee satisfaction. Working directly with hundreds of high schools, community colleges, and universities, Tooling U-SME is also able to help prepare the next generation workforce by providing industry-driven curriculum.

     

  • Building a Strategic Marketing Plan Primed for Growth & Marketing Tools that every Manufacturer Should Leverage

    MassMEP 27A Midstate Drive, Auburn, MA, United States

    Lean manufacturing will take you far, but it is exponentially more valuable when paired with a strategic plan for long-term growth. Manufacturers with formalized, growth-centered strategic plans achieve their goals more efficiently and cost-effectively than those who focus only on the bottom line. This workshop will take MassMEP members through the entire process of building a strategic plan - from evaluating and prioritizing your needs to devising the best strategy and tactics to address those needs. You can expect to leave this workshop ready to create and implement your own growth-centered strategic marketing plan.

    In today's digital era, the most successful manufacturers take the principles of Six Sigma to the next level with innovative new digital marketing tools. You can measure your marketing in the same way that you measure manufacturing processes - and achieve the same sustained quality improvement that Six Sigma brings to your process. This workshop will illustrate useful tools ranging from customer relationship management (CRM) systems that help you keep your customers and prospects happy to marketing automation platforms that take care of repetitive tasks like email and event marketing and everything in between.

  • Marketing for Manufacturers Redefined & 10 Tips to Implement Now

    MassMEP 27A Midstate Drive, Auburn, MA, United States

    Marketing is no longer about sales brochures, logos and creative. Cutting edge manufacturers are embracing a marketing playbook that is consumed with growth and lead generation vs. creative.

    This workshop will discuss the changing role marketing plays in a manufacturer's short and long term growth objectives and what you can do to harness the latest tools and tactics.

    Today, marketing is the key to growth in the manufacturing sector. New clients won't come your way unless you pursue them, and leads will trickle away if you don't nurture them. Your transformation can - and should - start now. This workshop will offer relevant and immediately actionable tips to maximize your marketing ROI and increase your top-line growth. Topics will include crafting an impactful marketing plan, developing powerful content, building out game changing assets, leveraging the latest digital techniques, and adding in the right marketing metrics.

  • Marketing for Manufacturers Redefined & 10 Tips to Implement Now

    MassMEP 27A Midstate Drive, Auburn, MA, United States

    Marketing for Manufacturers Redefined & 10 Tips to Implement Now

    Marketing is no longer about sales brochures, logos and creative. Cutting edge manufacturers are embracing a marketing playbook that is consumed with growth and lead generation vs. creative.
    This workshop will discuss the changing role marketing plays in a manufacturer's short and long term growth objectives and what you can do to harness the latest tools and tactics.

    Today, marketing is the key to growth in the manufacturing sector. New clients won't come your way unless you pursue them, and leads will trickle away if you don't nurture them. Your transformation can - and should - start now. This workshop will offer relevant and immediately actionable tips to maximize your marketing ROI and increase your top-line growth. Topics will include crafting an impactful marketing plan, developing powerful content, building out game changing assets, leveraging the latest digital techniques, and adding in the right marketing metrics.

  • Buying, Selling, Growing or Going – Maximize the value of your business

    MassMEP 27A Midstate Drive, Auburn, MA, United States

    You run a relatively successful company with great customers, great suppliers, and excellent employees.

    But you often wonder:

    • Could my company be more successful?
    • I’m not sure how to fix some of my company’s weaknesses.
      • And what about the ones I don’t even know about?
    • What impact would any change make? How would I even know where to start?

     

    It’s too much to think about, given all your day-to-day challenges of running the business, so you never take action. But, there’s a way to change the outcome. You can get a handle on all of the areas of your business that need improvement - and know how, when, by whom, at what cost, and with what impact, such improvements can be made.

     

    All you need to do now is to take the ONE STEP of attending this seminar. It will be the beginning of your company working for you, instead of you working for your company.

    You will learn what differentiates companies that:

    • Make growth and profitability look easy vs those that struggle year in, and year out
    • Debunk common misconceptions for growth and take a balanced approach
    • Sell for big multiples vs those that sell low, or can’t sell at all

    Join the MA MEP for the FREE two part seminar:

    Day 1 March15th: Learn how MA manufacturers transformed their businesses to peak performance, and how you can position your business to optimize growth and enterprise value in any state of economy. Learn how only 7% of owners transition out of their business on their terms and how you can be a part of that elite group.

    Day 2 March 22nd: In a confidential, condensed, guided self-assessment process we will identify your "current state” and discuss how an outside investor, buyer or lender views your business. You will then learn about the disciplined, methodical and sustainable steps you can take immediately to achieve the maximized results talked about in Day 1.