Tracking Financial Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) allows you to take a pulse on a business’s health. Learn the steps involved in establishing KPIs, the importance of which ones to choose and how to actually track them. Attendees will walk away with a structured approach they can put into practice to help monitor the status of the business.

No matter your business, environmental, health and safety (EH&S) regulations and compliance impact us all. The pressure to comply with seemingly ever-changing EH&S requirements can be overwhelming but they don’t have to be. Learn how an integrated EH&S program can support your manufacturing operations rather than compete with them.

Manufacturers must be creative if they want to attract and retain a highly skilled workforce. Get strategies used across the country to build a skilled workforce and keep manufacturing competitive including how to leverage key characteristics of the Gen Z and Millennial generations, implement new development programs that align with how these generations learn and rethink policies that not only attract but also help retain these younger workers.

Your business processes, leadership and culture are just as important as your technology investments. Learn which management styles lead to success, how culture affects a company’s ability to leverage technology investments and how manufacturers can derive the most value from their vendor partnerships.

Learn how having a clear vision sets you up to attract the best talent — and build an advantage your competitors can’t touch. See how fellow Michigan manufacturers have used the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS) to help build world-class teams while systematically strengthening their organizations and removing barriers to growth.

Hear recommendations for attracting and retaining the best workers based on the results of the largest survey of hourly workers in the country which captures the preferences and expectations of more than 18,000 blue collar workers in the supply chain (manufacturing and logistics positions).

While most manufacturers today rely on long-time customer relationships built on reputation, the internet gives buyers access to more resources than ever before. How will you keep your customers coming back? Learn how to leverage modern digital marketing channels, understand the role the different channels play and discover basic B2B strategies to help you grow.

Find out how to retain your current talent, better define the needs for future talent and ultimately prepare your business for an economic slowdown with this session by learning how to reengineer your business to cut non-value-added functions and update the skills of your current workforce to support your newly streamlined and more efficient processes.

Having the latest technology is great but without the three pillars of a solid technology solution — Managed IT Services, Disaster Recovery and Cyber Security — in place, the new technology could be detrimental. Learn why obtaining the three pillars of technology is more than an IT responsibility.