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Who is Enterprise Minnesota and what do they provide?

Enterprise Minnesota is a business consulting organization that helps small and medium-sized manufacturing companies to compete and grow profitably.

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What are Enterprise Minnesota's areas of business expertise?

Enterprise Minnesota's team of consultants work closely with clients to improve their business by employing a combination of the following tools:

Quality Management - Fuel a powerful business management system with ISO processes and certification to improve your customer relationships and grow business profitably. You’ll be far more credible to customer opportunities with this approach.

Proactive Marketing for Manufacturers - Generate strong business results through a strategic marketing process that includes competitive differentiation, identifying barriers to achieving goals and implementing growth opportunities in current and new markets.

Product Strategy - Bring your products and services to customers quickly and cost effectively generating profitable product results that contribute to your overall business results.

CEO Leadership - Drive your vision, energize your leaders and optimize company performance through Peer Council membership, strategic management decisions and executive problem-solving to grow your leadership.

GreenLean^® - Building on the power of lean enterprise by eliminating time, material and energy wastes, GreenLean^® ensures significant productivity improvements and cost savings leading to your opportunities for growth.

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Who is a typical customer of Enterprise Minnesota?

Enterprise Minnesota serves manufacturing industries in Minnesota.

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Enterprise Minnesota has a unique affiliation with Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a federal partner that brings tremendous value to its customers. What does this partnership bring to manufacturers?

Enterprise Minnesota is privileged to be the Minnesota center of the US Department of Commerce's Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program.Enterprise Minnesota is one of 59 centers throughout the US that are chartered to work with manufacturers, typically smaller firms, to help them invest in their businesses to achieve top-line, bottom-line and employee growth.

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Enterprise Minnesota is a non-profit 501(C)3 organization originally chartered by the State of Minnesota. What is the value to customers in operating as a not-for-profit entity?

Enterprise Minnesota represents a connection point between business, government and non-profits. Through our longstanding relationship with the State of Minnesota, we focus on contributing to Minnesota's economic prosperity. As a result, companies grow and continue their commitment to Minnesota as employers, job creators and economic contributors to local communities. Find out more about Enterprise Minnesota.

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Enterprise Minnesota guarantees its work. What is the guarantee?

We are required by NIST/MEP to do independent follow-up surveys that prove return on investment with each of our clients.We go back to each client annually through independent third-party survey research to confirm each client's individual successes in sales increases, cost reductions, and profitable investments. MEP, our federal partner, requires this data as evidence of our value to each manufacturing client. Learn more about the unique advantage of working with Enterprise Minnesota.

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Enterprise Minnesota offers business efficiency and growth solutions. What is the size of your organization? And, what size organizations do you work with?

Enterprise Minnesota employs 30 professionals, 20 of whom are business specialists working with clients throughout the state of Minnesota. We typically work with small to medium-size customers with between 10 and 500 employees. We're a mid-size consulting organization with highly skilled people and we're quite comfortable working with a wide range of company sizes.

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How do I start a working relationship with Enterprise Minnesota to help my organization compete and grow?

Please fill out our Quick Response Form or call (612) 373-2900 or (800) 325-3073 . We look forward to serving you.

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