Thought Leadership

Written by subject matter experts for Bay Area manufacturers.

Standard Costing Through Supply Chain Disruption

Keith West, Sensiba LLP
September 2023

The Principle of the Matter: Manufacturing Efficiency

Gene Russell, Manex
September 2023

What Are Science-Based Targets?

Jennifer Cantero, Sensiba LLP
June 2023

The Danger of Yesterday’s Logic

By Hannah Kain, ALOM
June 2023

Why and How to Conduct a Factory Tour

By Hale Foote, Scandic Springs
March 2023

Key ESG Trends Shaping 2023

Jennifer Cantero, Sensiba San Filippo LLP
March 2023

A Food GMP Journey to Exploration of the Food Safety Universe

By Kimberly Anderson, MPH, LI PCQI, LI FSVP, California Department of Public Health
March 2023

Sustainable Gifts for the Holidays: Rebooting Capitalism Podcast

By Jennifer Cantero, Sensiba San Filippo LLP
December 2022

How to Make a Business Case for Investing in Employee Engagement

By Krishna Rajagopal, Narish International
December 2022

What Gets Measured Gets Done – Supply Chain Impact on Climate Change

By Hannah Kain, ALOM
December 2022

The Reinstated Superfund Excise Tax for Chemicals and Imported Substances

By Elizabeth Perez Gonzalez, Sensiba San Filippo LLP
September 2022

Tightening Your Grip: Are You Prepared for a Recession?

By Gene Russell, Manex
September 2022

Near Term Strategies to Balance Supply Chain Risk

By Hannah Kain, ALOM
September 2022

What the SEC’s New Climate Change Disclosure Rules Mean for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

By Julien Gervreau of Sensiba San Filippo
June 2022

How Dynamic Cost Management Boosts the Bottom Line

By Robert Sher of Mastering Midsized
June 2022

Employment Practices Liability (EPL) Insurance

By Janice Berthold of Heffernan Insurance Brokers
March 2022

How Manufacturers Can Attract and Retain Employees in 2022

By Elizabeth Houseman of Sensiba Sensiba San Filippo LLP
March 2022

The 5S of Lean Manufacturing

By Gene Russell of Manex
March 2022

Cocktail Napkin Math Portends Ongoing West Coast Port Back-ups

By Hannah Kain of ALOM
March 2022

How to Make a Business Case for Investing in Employee Engagement

By Krishna Rajagopal of Narish International
December 2021

Managing Cash Flow in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

By Karen J. Burns, Sensiba San Filippo
December 2021

Whack-a-Mole Supply Chain is Here – How Big is Your Hammer?

By Hannah Kain, ALOM
September 2021

New Employee Retention Tax Credit Opportunities

By Cole Marr, Sensiba San Filippo
September 2021

Defining IT Supply Chain Risk for Manufacturers

By Christie Fisher, Vice President of Service Delivery, ZAG Technical Services
September 2021

Sustainable Supply Chains (Rebooting Capitalism Podcast)

With Jennifer Cantero, Sensiba San Filippo & Tom Greiner,Pure Strategies
June 2021

New Cybersecurity Requirements for Manufacturers: CMMC and NIST 800-171

By George Chao, Manex Consulting
June 2021

Key Requirements of the CPRA (and How They Differ from the Current CCPA)

By Stephanie Sparks, Hoge, Fenton, Jones and Appel
June 2021

Maximize Space Efficiencies, Workflows Through Layout Optimization

By Gene Russell, Manex Consulting
March 2021

 

Communicating With Employees About COVID-19 Vaccines

By Heffernan Insurance Brokers
March 2021

OSHA’s New COIVD Requirements: Are You Compliant?

By Heffernan Insurance Brokers
December 2020

Supply Chain Planning Considerations – What Will 2021 Bring?

By Hannah Kain, ALOM
December 2020

California Extends Workers’ Comp Presumption for COVID-l9

By Pinnacle Brokers Insurance Solutions
December 2020

Direct vs. Indirect Distribution

By Jessica Mendiola,  Sensiba San Filippo
December 2020

 

ISO For All

By Gene Russell, Manex Consulting
December 2020

 

Manufacturing Case Study: 2 to 11 Women in Automotive Manufacturing in 2 Semesters 

By National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science
September 2020

Standing in Your Truth and Trusting Your Feet (Rebooting Capitalism Podcast)

By Mark Brown, Business Coach & Author
September 2020

Does Your Supply Chain Need Surgery?

By Hannah Kain, ALOM
September 2020

By Cole Marr, Sensiba San Filippo
May 2020

Covid 19, Your Facility & Your Operation: A Response Plan

By Nik Lahiri, Essel Environmental Consulting
March 2020

A Perspective on Supply Chain:For Global Supply Chains the Worst Is Yet to Come

By Rosemary Coates, The Reshoring Institute
March 2020

Pandemic Meets Supply Chain: Tools, Threats and Thoughts

By Hannah Kain, ALOM
March 2020

Solving the Manufacturing Dilemma

By Zeydi Gutierrez, AB&I Foundry

March 2020

B Corp Certification from an Owner’s Perspective

By John Sensiba, Sensiba San Filippo

March 2020

Factories of the Future: Keeping up with the Technology Trends

By Randy Lagomarsino, City National Bank

March 2020

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) Principles for Leaders

By Walt Tarpley, Manex Consulting

March 2020

How Corporate Innovation Fails

By Jeff Eyet, Berkeley Innovation Group

October 2019

What Happens When You Decide To Leave China?

By Rosemary Coates, Reshoring Institute

May 2019

Join the Global Movement of People Using Business as a Force for Good

By B Lab, San Francisco 

May 2019

Tax Deductions for Business Vehicles

By Bill Abel, Sensiba San Filippo 

March 2019

Trade Wars Put U.S. Small Business on the Front Line

By Hannah Kain, ALOM 

March 2019

What the New Lease Standard Means for the Food and Beverage Industry

By Karen J. Burns, Sensiba San Filippo

December 2018

GDPR: A New Data Breach Regulation

By Mark Davidson & Pete Picetti, Heffernan Insurance Brokers

August 2018

 

Robots, Cobots and Human Labor

By Craig Tomita, Universal Robots

May 2018

 

Direct vs. Indirect Distribution

By Jarrett Warner, Sensiba San Filippo

May 2018

 

Protectors of the Brand

By Hannah Kain, ALOM

May 2018

3 Reasons to Go Lean Today

By Bill Browne, Manex

May 2018