Come see us at the 2026 KCMN SWOT Summit in Lenexa on October 13th!

Reviewing your SWOT, your strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats is one of the more challenging tasks when determining strategic priorities, especially for smaller manufacturers who have more closely-knit leadership teams. At the same time, many of the external factors that drive SWOT analysis are common to many small manufacturers.

This is what I think is really cool about the SWOT summit, you are able to get the combined perspectives of your peers, offering a much greater variety of insights, putting you on a more level playing field with much larger outfits. Big W is a proud sponsor of this year's SWOT summit.

We will also be presenting in Breakout Session 3, where we will be going into detail on harnessing tribal knowledge, addressing the known threat of an increasing number of your top operators in manufacturing getting closer to retirement. Harnessing this not only protects your organization from a loss of tribal knowledge, but by capturing this and documenting it, you also create a stable platform to scale from while giving your holders of tribal knowledge more freedom from phone calls at home at odd hours.

Hope to see you there!