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Breakthrough Business Results With MVT: A Fast, Cost-Free, "Secret Weapon" for Boosting Sales, Cutting Expenses, and Improving Any Business Process

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Wow! I think this is this best book on process improvement ever been written!

I have read lots of books about improving business performance and this is the first one that details a truly practical procedure and then illustrates it with so many examples.

Dr. Holland's book has provided a powerful and practical process to determine what all business leaders and managers want to know - - What are the RIGHT things to change to make the business better?

The breadth of application for MVT illustrated in this book is unprecedented. It clearly demonstrates that MVT is not just applicable in R & D or in manufacturing processes, it can be used with any business process.

This book is a must read for all Executives and Managers looking to bring about significant improvement in their business processes.

This book is very interesting and contains a powerful methodology to help companies test their ideas to find out what works and doesn't work. I can only imagine how much energy and money I have wasted over the years on ideas that hurt or don't make a difference.

I especially liked how it walked through every step of the MVT process and used a real-life example to show how it is applied. After reading this book, I intend to contact QualPro and use MVT on processes that I work with.

'Breakthrough Business Results with MVT'has really made me think about how I manage my business. I am seriously questioning the tools I use to attempt to improve business results.

I have tried using Six Sigma with less than satisfactory results. This MVT approach provides the only sensible step-by-step procedure to improve a process that I have seen.

MVT's successful track record in a large number of well-known companiesis really compelling. I am looking forward to using this MVT Process to improve my bottom-line.

I was worried this would be another text that describes a list of tools then leaves you to figure out how to use them. This MVT book puts it all together.

Early in the book you get the sense the author thinks any process can be improved, dramatically and quickly. During Part 2 you realize that is what's intended. By the end of the book you start to see how. I'm going to need to study it more (or get some help) to apply it though.

This book makes so much technical and management sense. It also seems to accommodate how people and businesses really work. It's rare to find something that could be so good in business being such a good read also. How ever did the author figure all this out? I can't find a sniff of it in any other text or management reference.

The application to service, sales, etc. is truly innovative. One wouldn't have thought you could run tests on people and attack problems that involve so much human error and idiosyncrasy.

This "practical, fast, cost free" criteria for test ideas is ingenious. As a manager I keep stressing everything we do has to be simple, nimble, and frugal. This is so much better than most analytical methods.

Great book. The MVT process is a blend of time honored common sense (the 7 steps)and pragmatic, cold blooded statistical analysis. It spits out answers quickly to problems that seem unsolvable. I loved the stories of how the method worked in specific companies. The thing that seems to seperate these guys from other "quality improvement" companies is they fix a problem where others seem to be trying to train you into quality. I highly recommend it.

The plethora of quality fads that suddenly erupted twenty years ago saw U.S. corporate interest in managing improvement flare and then fizzle. Company after company realized that there was little substance in the low wattage methods that characterized that era. Many of us felt then that there must be somewhere a more scientific approach to help tackle difficult challenges than "form a team, flowchart and fishbone".

Chuck Holland, it is now clear, knew the answer all along and has recently documented it in his new book on MVT.

The testing of practical, fast, and cost free ideas, in large screening tests that are then followed by refining tests, makes enormous sense!

The impressive success stories, from a wide variety of applications, underscore the fact that scientific testing methods can improve any process.

This book takes an old subject (improving business performance) and provides a truly unique perspective as to how you can actually accomplish big improvements.

I thought that the author did a really good job of balancing the level of detail so that I understood the concept of MVT . . . but did not get bogged down in technical issues.

The book is obviously not written for technocrats. But if you are an executive, or someone who wants to become an executive, you don't want to miss it!

The really good news is that it is so full of real-life case studies that it is an easy/entertaining read . . . and at the same time it shares a truly ground-breaking business improvement approach.

Breakthrough Business Results with MVT provided great insights on how to create business success via process improvement, without carrying all the baggage that comes with other approaches such as Six Sigma.

I like the idea of directly attacking problems and getting proven results up front. The fact that the payoff often begins to occur even before findings are implemented is a little hard to believe . . . but a lot of people seem to have said it is true.

Holland demonstrates that the MVT process works across a broad range of businesses, from retail to manufacturing. He effectively uses testimonies from customers that back up his claims about the value of his approach.

His 12-step MVT process could be the next great 12-Step recovery program to sweep the nation and will go a long way in shoring up any smart company's competitive position! A must read for business executives.

This book has a gold mine of examples of organizations that have used MVT to achieve astonishing savings. No business professional who wants to improve profits should miss this book.

Chuck Holland is a pure genius at explaining MVT in easily understood terms and giving concrete real-life examples that jump off the page! Not only did I learn a great deal, but the book was fun and enjoyable to read. I couldn't put it down until I finished.

I personally would have liked to have seen all of the statistical detail, but I do understand that the book is intended for managers and executives.

A great book! It describes a logical and systematic approach to improve virtually any business. It is amazing at how the MVT process has been used on everything from manufacturing a product to increasing sales . . . and from improving quality to eliminating waste.

The author laid out the MVT process clearly in 12 steps, and gave a wide variety of examples illustrating how they have been applied in real life situations.

I would have liked even more detail on each of the 12 steps, but I guess that is why QualPro teaches seminars.