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The Smarter Way to Source, Sell, and Succeed in U.S. Manufacturing

CONNEX Marketplace is a powerful digital platform that connects U.S. manufacturers, buyers, and industry partners across the entire domestic supply chain. Unlike other platforms, CONNEX provides a smarter, more efficient way to discover qualified suppliers, find reliable sourcing options, and build lasting business relationships. Whether you're looking to grow your network, source domestically, or support American manufacturing, CONNEX helps you make the right connections—fast.

CONNEX is tightly integrated with local and regional Partner Networks that support manufacturing. These include: NAM, NIST MEP, Local and Federal SBA Offices, State Manufacturing Associations, State MEPs, 100+ state and regional associations, and many others such as Economic Development Offices, Chambers of Commerce and more!

The combination of an extensive partner network and robust search functionality makes CONNEX the deepest database search platform available.

Dashboards To Power Decision Making

i5 Insight dashboards provide highest level summary views to lowest level detail in 3 clicks or less. They are built to work with existing applications and are configured to provide actionable and predictive information to decision makers.

In government, we have built applications for the US Department of Transportation that have cut months of time off of large acquisitions in procurement and new hires in human resources. We built these user-friendly, secure solutions using a powerful combination of lean principles to streamline processes and agile principles to develop technology to fit the streamlined processes.

"i5 Services has literally helped me change my business! I cannot overstate how important the dashboard and drill down metrics have become to my company. Not just that we have them, but that they are visual, easy to understand and automated!"

Rich Marker, President and Owner, All Metals Fabrication.

Training

According to Inc. Magazine:

Unproductive meetings cost companies in the US $37 Billion each year
It is estimated that there are 25 million meetings per day in the US
Middle managers spend 35% of their time in meetings and upper management spends 50%
15% of an organizations time is spent in meetings each year and that number increases each year
Executives consider more that 67% of meetings to be unproductive

If you consider that the average salary is about $46,000, that translates to roughly $7k per employee being spent in meetings and roughly $5k of that wasted (other figures estimate this number to be as high as $10k-15k).

This means that we are losing somewhere between $50-$150k for every 10 employees in our company. We recently trained a company with less than 30 employees and they estimated they were losing over $250k per year in unproductive meetings. After our training not only were they able to recapture that loss but employees reported higher engagement.

Just a few of the questions we answer:

How do I get someone to attend the meetings I schedule?
How do I keep a meeting from going off track?
What do I do about the person who is always taking over the meeting?
What do I do about those who are multitasking or who are not engaged?

What the training provides:

Pre-training planning and preparation with sponsor and key stakeholders
2-hour training session
Templates and forms
Post-training reflection with sponsor and key stakeholders

Technology that changes industries and improves the bottom line

The Smarter Way to Source, Sell, and Succeed in U.S. Manufacturing

Dashboards To Power Decision Making

Monitoring

Training

According to Inc. Magazine: