Value Building Associates
We are a team of business leaders who help companies improve their performance and workplace environment.
Our Value Building Tools provide a structured approach to improving key business processes and enhancing employee performance and satisfaction.
About Our Value Building Tools
Our Value Building Tools help improve key business processes and employee performance. We have developed them based upon over 50 years of working with all types of organizations.
Our Tools use underlying concepts from Six Sigma, Lean Operations, Total Quality Management, Continuous Improvement, Self-Directed Workforce and Organizational Empowerment in a straightforward, jargon-free approach that is easy to understand, implement and measure the benefits. We tailor our Tools to meet each client’s unique situation.
Our Tools combine the discipline of a structured approach with an awareness of how to energize people so that performance improvement is an ongoing part of your culture.
Easy-to-use techniques to help you be more successful.
The Three P’s
Process Tools
Improve performance and workplace environment on a daily basis.
-Strategic Suppliers (Improving Supplier Performance)
-Pursuit of Perfection (Continuous Improvement/Problem Solving)
Planning Tools
Set overall direction, allocate resources, define key programs and metrics to keep your team focused.
-Strategic Plan
-Operating Plan/Budget
-Operating Review and Tactical Plan
-Product Development Plan
-Organizational Development Plan
People Tools
Build and keep the best team to support your goals and culture.
-Hiring Guide
-Performance Review and Personal Development Guide
-Compensation Management Guide
Our Approach
We focus on both process and people improvement. We believe that business processes work best when they offer people the opportunity to succeed and to shine. Most process improvement ideas fail because people do not support them. Process improvement must make employees more successful in order to stick. Our approach combines powerful process improvements with a focus on how they can be used to increase employee performance and morale. We help our clients’ people experience how more effective business processes can make them personally more successful and more fulfilled in their jobs.
Featured Case Studies
HVAC
For a manufacturer of Commercial and Industrial HVAC Systems, we used our Improving Supplier Performance tool to reduce overall supplier cost by 10 percent and increase the value-added contribution of their key suppliers.
Increased fill rate by 98%
Decreased defect rate by 75%
Industrial Equipment
For an Industrial Equipment manufacturer, we used our Pursuit of Perfection tool to reduce their defect rate by over 75 percent. We used our Fill Rate Management tool to increase equipment and spare parts fill rates to over 98 percent. We used our Improving Supplier Performance tool to reduce overall supplier cost by 10 percent and increase the value-added contribution of their key suppliers.
Consumer Durables
For an Consumer Durables company, we used our Operating Plan tool to define programs to drive over 10 percent annual growth and improve operating margins to over 20 percent. We used our Improving Supplier Performance tool to reduce overall supplier cost by 15 percent and increase the value-added contribution of their key suppliers.
About Us
We are a team of business leaders with deep experience helping companies and people succeed.
We bring skills and best-of-class practices developed through leadership roles at many leading companies, including General Electric, Black & Decker, The Sharper Image, Honeywell, Natural Wonders, Cadence, Flow International, Square D, The Boston Consulting Group, Kwikset.
We have led teams in every major functional area, including Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Field Services, Human Resources, IT, Finance and Strategic Planning as well as overall General Management.
We have extensive experience in many industries, including Consumer Durables, Electronics, Industrial Products, IT Services, Home Improvement Services and Specialty Retail.
We use our Value Building Tools to provide a structured approach to improving company performance and employee satisfaction.
Companies that we have helped:
- General Electric
- Black & Decker
- The Sharper Image
- Price Pfister
- The Boston Consulting Group
- Honeywell
- Kraft
- Hanes
- Owens Corning Fiberglas
- ImproveNet
- Natural Wonders
- Square D
- Strategic Planning Associates
- Cadence
- GATX
- Dynamic Aviation
- AT&T
- Planning Research Corporation
- Woodcraft Technologies
- LRICO
- Creativity, Inc.
- Flow International
- Kwikset
- Specified Air Solutions
Reach Us
Interested in seeing what we can do for you?
Call or Email us at:
+1 818 – 259 – 5164
Rcoop913@aol.com