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McBix Consultants, LLC Process improvement & project management for healthcare, manufacturing, and contact centers.

We help ops and compliance leaders run hard projects and rebuild the SOPs that wrap around them.

10/08/2026

Rework rarely appears on a budget, but almost every operation pays for it.
A claim that gets resubmitted, a part that gets re-inspected, a customer who calls back because the first answer didn't stick. Each one uses capacity a second time for the same result. That's why we think of it as a hidden factory running alongside the real one.
The first step in reducing it is simply counting it.

10/01/2026

October is National Quality Month, which is a good prompt for one question: where in your process does quality actually get created?

Inspection finds defects after they exist. Process design prevents them from happening. If most of your quality effort sits at the end of the line, the biggest improvement opportunity is usually upstream.

07/17/2026

If your company has a Karen — and it does — this is your sign to get something written down before she's out for two weeks and everyone realizes how much lived only in her head. It's not about replacing Karen. It's about making sure Karen isn't the only thing holding the process together.

07/16/2026

Every org has someone like Karen holding a broken process together through sheer force of will. It looks like things are working. What's actually happening is one person quietly absorbing all the risk of a system that was never built. That's not resilience. That's a single point of failure with a name and a coffee mug.

07/15/2026

Ask around most companies and you'll hear "we have a process for that" a dozen times a day. Half the time, the process is a specific person's memory. That works fine until two people need an answer at the same moment, or that person's out of office, or — worse — gone for good. A real process survives someone's absence. A Karen-shaped process doesn't.

07/14/2026

Every company has a Karen. The person who's been there forever, knows exactly how everything works, and has never once written any of it down. Karen isn't the risk. Karen leaving — for a vacation, a new job, a Tuesday she calls in sick — is the risk. If your entire onboarding process lives in one person's head, you don't have a process. You have a hope that Karen never leaves.

07/13/2026

Ask five people at the same company how a new hire actually gets onboarded, and you'll usually get five different answers.Somewhere in there, someone will mention a person by name — the one who "really knows how it works." That's not a process. That's a single point of failure wearing a training badge.The fix isn't more meetings. It's writing down what's currently living in someone's head.

07/10/2026

Here's something we say internally that sometimes surprises people: a successful engagement ends with us being less necessary, not more.

The work isn't done when the process is mapped or the project is closed. It's done when the team inside the organization can own it, sustain it, and improve on it without us in the room.

That means the knowledge transfer is as important as the solution itself. It means we're teaching and documenting as we go, not just delivering.

Consultants who build dependency aren't delivering value — they're delivering invoices. We'd rather build capability. It's better for the client and, honestly, it's better for our reputation long-term.

07/09/2026

After years in operations consulting, you start to build an unofficial translation guide.

'Quick question' rarely is. 'Leadership is aligned' usually means leadership has heard the words. 'We tried this before' almost always means the effort stopped at the hard part.

None of that is a criticism — it's just the reality of how change works inside organizations. People protect what they know. Alignment is a process, not a meeting.

The consultants who burn out are the ones who fight that reality. The ones who last learn to work with it — to find the real conversation underneath the stated one, and start there.

That's where the actual progress lives.

07/08/2026

One of the frameworks we bring to healthcare clients comes straight from manufacturing: the idea that errors should be caught at the source, not the end.

In a manufacturing plant, letting a defect travel through the full production line before catching it is considered a failure of the process — not just the product. You stop the line. You fix the root cause. You build the check into the step where the error originates.

In healthcare operations, most errors travel a long way before anyone catches them. A bad intake field shows up in a denied claim 45 days later. A missed training requirement surfaces during an accreditation survey. A workflow gap becomes a compliance finding.

The fix isn't always complicated. It's usually a checkpoint that doesn't exist yet, or a handoff that nobody owns. Manufacturing solved this. We help healthcare borrow the answer.

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