Value Engineering: A Plan for InventionAfter more than 50 years as a manager and VE pioneer, Richard J. Park presents Value Engineering: A Plan for Invention. Park demonstrates how to adopt VE as a thinking process that can enable you to increase your problem solving skills, cultivate innovation, reduce costs, improve productivity, and more. Features |
Contents
The Application Benefit Matrix | |
The Foundation of Clarity | |
A Matter of Opinion | |
A Major Component of Value | |
THE HUMAN ELEMENT | |
Different Things Move Different People | |
A Synthesized Knowledge Group | |
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