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The Complete Total Competitiveness Theory Table of Contents
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Author: Dirceu "Dirk" Maramaldo
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
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Dog Ear
Cover: Softbound
No. Pages: 455
This book is an excellent management book to awaken the impulse for business to survive.

The book consists of 4 Parts as shown to the right. These Parts consist of 40 Chapters too numerous to list here.

    General Introduction
  1. The Science of Administration under Transformation
  2. The Impact of Quality Generation on the Business Environment
  3. Integrated Business Networks
  4. The Human Side of Competitiveness
  5. The Managerial Matrix
  6. Re-engineering Relationships
    Part 1: Modern Values Analysis
    Part 2: Total Competitiveness
    Part 3: Leading Through Intelligence
    Part 4: Extraordinary Performance
    Appendix A - Multiple Intelligences Inventory
    Appendix B - The Self Talk Technique
    Appendix C - Defining the Individual Behavioural Profile Appendix D - Company's Individual Departments Performance Standards Inventory
Recollections Table of Contents
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Editor: James J. O'Brien, CVS
Cover: Hardbound
No. Pages: 124
This book is a recollection of Larry Miles from his many friends. It's function is;
  • Remember Larry
  • Meet Larry
  • Know Larry.
  1. Introduction
  2. General Electric Years
  3. Larry Miles -- Consultant
  4. Recollections: A Helping Hand
  5. Larry Miles "Retires"
  6. Imperial Recognition
  7. Belated Recognition
  8. "Let Us Celebrate..."
Value Engineering Theory Table of Contents
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Author: Donald E. Parker, CVS
Cover: Softbound
No. Pages: 201

This book is a textbook for the Foundation's 3-credit hour undergraduate course VE Theory for architecture and engineering students.

    Part  1. History, application and definition
    Part  2. Aesthetics and worth
    Part  3. Beginning a value study
    Part  4. Group dynamics and human relations
    Part  5. FAST diagramming
    Part  6. Creativity
    Part  7. Judging ideas
    Part  8. Complementary techniques
    Part  9. Cost control and cost models
    Part 10. Life cycle costing
    Part 11. Implementation strategies
Techniques of Value Analysis and Engineering,  3rd Edition Table of Contents
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Author: by Lawrence D. Miles
Cover: Hardbound
No. Pages: 366

This book, written by the originator of value analysis and engineering technology, shows management and professional people specific steps to disciplined thinking, giving them 25 percent to 50 percent more efficiency -- both in the quality and quantity of their mental work.

  1. Concepts and Approaches of Value Analysis and Engineering
  2. All Cost is for Function
  3. Evaluate the Function
  4. Problem-setting System
  5. Problem-solving System
  6. Setting and Solving Management-decision-type Problems
  7. Setting and Solving Services Problems
  8. Results Accelerators
  9. Using the System
  10. Special Knowledge Required
  11. Understanding the Decision Environment
  12. Effect on Other Work in the Business
  13. Effective Organization for Value Work
  14. Essential Qualifications and Training for Value Analysts and Engineers
  15. Work Content for the Value Analyst, Engineer, and Consultant
  16. Motivation, Measurement, and Tests
  17. Advanced Techniques
  18. Using the System to Reduce Construction Costs
  19. Problems for Assignment
Value Analysis Table of Contents
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Author: Carlos Fallon
Cover: Softbound
No. Pages: 277

This book is a revision of Carlos Fallon's 1970 book, Value Analysis to Improve Productivity. The 1990 edition emphasizes how productivity can be made more interesting and pleasant for the producers themselves, and how the mind power of the entire work force can be harvested to yield technological innovations and aesthetic advances beyond what was possible yesterday. This book offers 277 pages of the latest thinking about value.

It is used as the text for the Foundation's on-line course, Basic Value Analysis.

  1. Function of Value Analysis
  2. The Nature of Value
  3. Who Does Value Analysis
  4. How is it Done
  5. Information Phase
  6. Analytic Phase
  7. Creative Phase
  8. Evaluation
  9. Implementation
  10. Directing to Operation
  11. Fast Diagram 
    Appendix A.  Mathematics of Resource Use
    Appendix B.  Measurement
    Appendix C.  Professional Foundations
    Epilogue
    Bibliography
Management Application of Value Engineering for Business and Government Table of Contents
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Author: Donald E. Parker, CVS
Cover: Hardbound
No. Pages: 202

The objective of this book is to explain how the value methodology can be applied to improve the value of software, including: regulations, procedures, business practices, management systems, paperwork practices, services and organizational structure. This text provides practical knowledge in specialized techniques used in value management applications such as: flow charting, function (FAST) diagramming, determining worth, creativity, weighted evaluation, cost estimating for systems, life cycle costing and human relations

This book is the text for a 3-credit hour undergraduate course for business and commerce students.

  1. History and application
  2. Government and non-profit use
  3. Methodology
  4. Function and FAST
  5. Beginning a value study
  6. Cost estimating
  7. Group dymanics and human relations
  8. Creativity
  9. Judging ideas
  10. Complementary techniques
  11. Life cycle costing
  12. Implementation strategies
  13. Beginning a VM program
Value Engineering Theory & Practice in Industry Table of Contents
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Author: Thomas R. King
Cover: Softbound
No. Pages: 192

This book is similar to the VE Theory book but is oriented for use by manufacturing and industry. It provides the text for a 3-credit hour course for industrial engineering students.

  1. Value Engineering: Beginning and Growth
  2. Understanding the Value Concept
  3. The Systematic Approach: VE Job Plan
  4. Function Analysis
  5. Group Dynamics: Teams and Teamwork
  6. Value Engineering Methodology: Value Concepts, Tools and Technology
  7. FAST Diagramming
  8. Conducting the Value Engineering Study: Project Selection and Information Phase
  9. Conducting the Value Engineering Study: The Middle Phases: Function Analysis and Idea Generation
  10. Conducting the Value Engineering Study: Evaluation and Implementation
  11. The Value Arena: Complementary Concepts
  12. Value Engineering Management in an Industrial Setting
  13. Case Study

 

           
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