👩🏻‍🔬This week on the My Curious Colleague Podcast, my guest is my colleague Sheila Jones, PMP - Business Consultant and Coach – a Food Scientist, Quality Co-Manufacturing and Leadership Professional… AND now, a Founder at Whicked Results - her new gig…! This episode is 5th in our “Consumer Relations Collaboration Services”…this week we’re talking collaborating successfully with Quality Co-Manufacturing and Product Development cross functional Teams. Having even a high level understanding can help Consumer Relations optimize the collaboration with these Cross-Functional Teams…! Sheila shares that working with Consumer relations and leveraging their consumer feedback/data is like “having the consumers at your fingertips…”. Boom…!🎤 Mic Drop. [a perfect way to explain it…!] 🎙️Do take a listen to the FULL episode OR watch & listen on your phone w/Spotify: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NmNkE7c2qqPpnHI7mTais Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-curious- colleague/id1565590157 Anchor: https://anchor.fm/denise-venneri Amazon Podcasts: Ask Alexa to play the podcast “My Curious Colleague” We’re talkin’ Quality Co-Man + Product Development: 🏭Differences between co-man plants and company owned facilities 🏠Similarities in how Consumer Relations data can help inform both co-man products and come in handy especially when you’re bringing a co-man in house (in-source) 🥔Examples of how consumer data can inform product in market and ways to optimize production to address any consumer pain points. THINK: building the perfect potato chip, analyzing insights on a periodic basis to ensure continual improvement 📊We talk Specs…! – as in product specifications, curves/tail ends, SPC/Statistical process controls – & how it helps with optimizing production process. 🤝We’re talkin’ her new consulting business, Whicked Results, where she works to understand and provide solutions to Products, Processes, Teams and Leaders. What can’t she do? 💜Sheila’s non-profit organization shout out goes to The Boxer Rescue in MA in honor of her late sister. This non-profit connects owners with rescued boxers. Love that. Theboxerrescue.org SPONSORS: Our sponsor ⁠⁠⁠⁠Holdcom⁠⁠⁠⁠ is offering all My Curious Colleague listeners a free professional greeting for their contact center or business.  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Click here to get yours⁠⁠⁠⁠. website ⁠⁠⁠https://www.holdcom.com/callcenter/⁠⁠⁠. And the free greeting page.  ⁠⁠⁠https://www.holdcom.com/free-custom-greeting/ #mycuriouscolleague #cpgcx #qualityassurance #comanufacturing #leadership #businesspodcasts #productdevelopment #startupfounder