Value Engineering That Means
Business, Even Small Business

This collection of value engineering related documents reports on practical applications that we've used in the past to solve both technical and business problems to help improve cash flow.

It provides the solid justification for our focus today on using the same results-oriented principles to improve online businesses, large and small, including the one-person operation.

Technical examples of applying VE include:

• specifying computerized automation systems
• designing laboratory ventilation control
• incorporating intelligent building features

Business examples of applying VE include:

• attributing responsibility in litigation
• cash flow forecasting
• analyzing profit sensitivity

One of the best examples of applying VE in the small business world is in choosing how to increase cash flow using the Internet. Most small businesses don't have an effective Web site.

Most existing small business Web sites are nothing more than online brochures. Any time and effort spent on them is generally wasted because they don't produce results. Results are the true test.

Our Past VE Activities

Whether for engineering or business applications, all our consulting mandates n the past have drawn heavily on techniques advocated by the Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE), to support large, complex technical purchasing decisions. This value orientation is omnipresent no matter what the nature of the work, for example:

• biological safety cabinets
• certified control systems technician
• emergency preparedness kit
• engineering reports
• engineering tool box
• expert systems
• forensic expert witness
• fume hoods
• industrial control
• industrial control systems
• intelligent building
• intelligent building database
• intelligent buildings
• intelligent building systems
• laboratory ventilation
• smart buildings
• specification writing
• y2k scare

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