Value Engineering

A Plan for Invention

By: Richard Park

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Hardcover | 3 December 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Cited by a leading consulting firm as one of the most effective cost reduction efforts available today & in the future, Value Engineering (VE) offers ways to not only improve problem-solving skills-but also to understand many of the reasons why it's often difficult to resolve complexities of problem-solving with effectiveness & efficiency. Although it's a wave of the future, VE principles & practices have actually been in development & implementation for many years. After more than 50 years as a manager & VE pioneer, Richard J. Park outlines Value Engineering: A Plan for Invention. Drawn from his extensive experience in major automotive, aircraft, & general manufacturing fields-then as an independent consultant & trainer-Park shows VE's applicability to not only the corporate environment, but other aspects of community & personal life as well. Park demonstrates how to adopt VE as a thinking process -allowing managers & leaders to employ knowledge already gained, but greatly increase its effectiveness. Beyond its problem-solving basis, VE also addresses the means to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, improve productivity, & more. Many problems once considered "unsolvable" can now be successfully resolved & carried into effective results through VE. Value Engineering: A Plan for Invention will help managers, supervisors, & other motivators prepare for tomorrow-with time-tested methods. Features

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"Park's book gives you useful tools to approach complex problems in systems or components, but more importantly he encourages you to approach those problems from a new point of view. His techniques take you step by step away from the old ways of problem solving which gave us old types of solutions. His way of approaching things forces you to look at the same issues from a new perspective, something required for breakthrough discoveries." -Jeffery B Higgs, Executive Vice President - Corporate Planning, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group "By far the most comprehensive book and the best primer on Value Engineering available. The Catalog of Functions included in the Appendix alone is worth the price of the book to the Value Engineering veteran as well as someone new to the process."-E. R. Heussner, President Comp-U-Tense, Inc. "This is a marvelous, well-written understandable book. It is just what Value Engineering (VE) has needed. It brings VE into the modern world and shows VE to be essential to today's business and social environment."-John H. F. Hoving, Sr. Vice President, Ret. Federated Department Stores, SAVE International Counsel "The VE process provides the disciplined technique required to challenge basic assumptions that limit insights necessary for innovative breakthroughs. Mr. Park has defined the concepts and provided examples, which facilitate technical problem solving and stimulate critical analysis required in evaluations and decisions we make daily."-Richard Darios, Training and Development Specialist

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