Value Engineering Academy has started – January 2024
January 2024. The ‘V’ of Value! This photograph excellently captures our essence—always ready for a laugh. While creating value is a serious endeavor, we strive
In everything we do, we believe in challenging the status quo, and engineering together to find different solutions.
For people, planet and profit.
The way we challenge the status quo is by questioning, based on ancient principles and modern methods, using visuals, asking questions and using plain language.
We do our work with humour, perseverance and true dedication.
We facilitate and train Value Engineering.
We work with projectteams, their stakeholders and networks to enhance
designs. We use a structured approach in design studies and workshops. We facilitate
improvement of projects, services, processes and products, in live and virtual meetings. We train Engineers and Managers. We work in partnership with financers, strategists and design engineers by nature.
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Facilitating Value Engineering studies is our core business: assisting teams to optimise any design. Better outcomes at optimal costs for satisfying business and happy clients.
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Tailored to your needs and fit for purpose. Together, we have over 50 years' experience of applying value thinking to a wide range of business processes and engineering designs.
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Join our training program to enhance your response to needs, ideas, guidelines, and financial constraints, improving your ability to deliver increased value.
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Global reach, local touch. We have worked in over 16 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. We speak English, Dutch and Basasa Indonesia. Other languages 'on demand' through our network.
Every project, any scale. Explore value with us
Value Engineering is an intensive, organised multidsciplinary team effort to enhance the value of a design, by function analysis, generation of ideas and alternatives, improve performances and reduce costs. We applied Value Engineering on a wide range of topics. Value Engineering is sometimes called “Function Engineering”. Since everything has a function, we used Value Engineering for:
Facilitators of Value Engineering studies. Trainers on all levels. Certified. Worldwide.
We practice ourselves, we teach and we coach.
Our teachers are international certified around the globe. With lots or experience in facilitiation, training, coaching and implementing in organisations.
Professionals in Value Management PVM, Trainers in Value Management TVM, Certified Value Specialists CVS.
Value Engineering can be integrated in your regular engineering activities. Start today. Do a Value Engineering study, hire a value engineer. Or get a training for yourself and your colleagues.
In the Value Engineering (VE) studies that we conducted, we significantly enhanced value, often at reduced costs and sometimes with added benefits like longer lifespan or increased speed. Most VE studies recoup their costs within a year due to savings. Additionally, 95% of these studies yield returns hundreds to thousand times over in meeting needs and resource efficiency. Guess why we may offer ‘no-cure, no-pay’!
Designing to create best value for money. Creating solutions that perform well and don’t cost too much. Some keywords are:
In Value Engineering (VE), understanding comes from active listening and clear information sharing. These are key to VE, highlighting open communication and diverse views for common goals.
Value Engineering’s core principle is that participation leads to acceptance. It involves stakeholders at all stages, ensuring everyone’s input is valued and concerns are addressed. Solutions are not just decisions, but collaborative steps towards joint success.
Value Engineering is the mother of many techniques, and recombines techniques such as design thinking, TRIZ, and rapid prototyping. It also integrates methods like mindmapping, SWOT analysis, SCAMPER, rapid prototyping, Blue Ocean Strategy, and the Six Thinking Hats. Add to that best practices from project management and Value Proposition Design, and it helps to create superior, cost-effective well designed solutions.
We practice what we preach. Everyday. Around the globe.
January 2024. The ‘V’ of Value! This photograph excellently captures our essence—always ready for a laugh. While creating value is a serious endeavor, we strive
March 2024 In the soft shadow of an old willow tree, where the light playfully danced through the leaves, Pooh and his friends found themselves
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