Insight on Business

IN FOCUS { SMA L L B U S I N E S S } By MaryBeth Matzek Successful game plan MBM takes team approach when designing new headquarters W hen MBM moves into its new headquarters in the Town of Menasha near the end of 2012, it will be a move more than two years in the making. Last summer, Fritz Merizon, president and general manager of MBM, a document and technology and imaging-products management company, made the decision to vacate its leased Appleton location and move into a building that better fit its needs. “I knew our lease would be up at the end of 2012; I knew we would have the time to do it right,” he says. “It” is building a new headquarters that better fits the company’s mission and what its employees do on a daily basis. MBM teamed up with Miron Construction and McMahon Group to design and build a 30,000-square- foot corporate headquarters in the McMahon Business Park, located off of Highway 10 and County CB in the Town of Menasha. But before anything was final on paper, MBM decided to work carefully with McMahon and Miron to get Craig Sachs, center, an architect with McMahon in the Town of Menasha, leads a discussion with MBM employees about the different design and structural elements they would like to see in their new headquarters. MBM engaged its employees and customers when putting together the plans for their new building. Construction is set to begin later this year at a site in the Town of the Menasha. 46 | INSIGHT • May 2011 www. insightonbusiness .com “At the end of the day, our environment will be conducive to working smarter and faster, which will ultimately translate into enhanced customer and employee experiences.” – Fr i tz Mer izon, MBM pres ident and general manager employees involved in the design process. Many employees were assigned to innovation teams that looked at how different departments connected, how ideas were shared and what was the most efficient use of space. “We talked with employees and looked at the workspace and came up with what the ideal space would be and what message that would send,” says Steve Tyink, Miron’s vice president of business innovation. “We developed an innovation map and blueprint that looked at how it all worked. Is the right feeling being sent to people as they come in to the office?” MBM plans to break ground on the project this summer and move into the new location during the fourth quarter of 2012. Merizon hopes the new COURTESY OF COALESCE MARKE TING

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