{"id":688,"date":"2012-11-07T19:59:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2012-11-07T19:59:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:59:53","slug":"how-to-persuade-fact-finding-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/07\/how-to-persuade-fact-finding-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTUAL PERSUASION: LASTING IMPACT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/2012\/11\/07\/how-to-persuade-fact-finding-missions\/screen-shot-2012-11-07-at-6-57-43-pm\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-690 alignleft\" title=\"KT INDUSTRIES ROI $1,000,000\" src=\"http:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/screen-shot-2012-11-07-at-6-57-43-pm.png?w=148\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/screen-shot-2012-11-07-at-6-57-43-pm.png 380w, https:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/screen-shot-2012-11-07-at-6-57-43-pm-298x300.png 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><\/a>I was commissioned to find companies in Canada who participated in the Innovation Insights program and found bottom-line improvement from that participation. One-part dabase mining, one-part interviews and approval by legal departments and one part writing, this project created solid stories of bottom line improvement and a return on investment. The stories stand, years later, on their website:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvp-ii.org\/en\/home\/top-roi-stories.html#story1\" target=\"_blank\">Innovation Insights<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>KT Industries credits their\u00a0<\/em><em>commitment to lean manufacturing and continuous <\/em><em>improvement with a company turnaround. By\u00a0<\/em><em>reducing their inventory by 30% in one year,\u00a0<\/em><em>they converted approximately $1 million to cash,\u00a0<\/em><em>significantly improving the company\u2019s indebtedness\u00a0<\/em><em>and competitive position.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was commissioned to find companies in Canada who participated in the Innovation Insights program and found bottom-line improvement from that participation. One-part dabase mining,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinerikhamilton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}