<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Interactive Margins — The Margin Memo</title><description>Interactive Margins is a process-improvement consultancy led by an industrial engineer. We help operations teams cut waste, streamline workflows, and turn process gains into measurable margin.</description><link>https://interactivemargins.com/</link><item><title>How to find the hidden bottleneck in any process</title><link>https://interactivemargins.com/blog/finding-hidden-bottleneck/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://interactivemargins.com/blog/finding-hidden-bottleneck/</guid><description>Every process has one constraint that sets the pace for the whole system. Here is how to find yours before you spend a dollar on improvement.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>lean</category><category>theory-of-constraints</category><category>diagnostics</category><author>Adrian DeVargas</author></item><item><title>Value stream mapping without the jargon</title><link>https://interactivemargins.com/blog/value-stream-mapping-basics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://interactivemargins.com/blog/value-stream-mapping-basics/</guid><description>A practical, plain-English walkthrough of value stream mapping: what it is, how to do it, and why it consistently surfaces savings teams did not know they had.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>lean</category><category>value-stream-mapping</category><category>process</category><author>Adrian DeVargas</author></item><item><title>Why improvements fade, and how to make them stick</title><link>https://interactivemargins.com/blog/making-improvements-stick/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://interactivemargins.com/blog/making-improvements-stick/</guid><description>The hardest part of process improvement is not finding the win. It is keeping it. Here is how to build changes that survive after the consultant leaves.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>continuous-improvement</category><category>change-management</category><category>kaizen</category><author>Adrian DeVargas</author></item></channel></rss>