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VMS welcomes new Value Experts
VMS is starting 2016 with a rather big bang. We’ve added to our team several new team leaders, facilitators, and value experts to offer our clients specialized service covering an even more diverse spectrum of applications.
Read MoreVMS leads VE study to reduce water utility energy costs in the US-Mexico border region
In the September 2014 issue of Water Utility Management International, BECC, Tetra Tech, and VMS look at how energy auditing of treatment facilities can help identify opportunities to make cost savings.
Read MoreE-learning
VMS offers exciting and innovative courses that will provide learners from any discipline a knowledge base in Value Engineering, Value Methodology, Risk Management, or our own Value Metrics. As a PMI® Registered Education Provider, several of our courses are approved for Professional Development Units (PDUs).
Read MorePublications
Our staff literally wrote the books on Value Optimization and Risk Management. Also, these books are used as the foundation for our training programs and the processes we proudly advance at VMS.
Read MoreLocations
VMS now has offices across the US and in Japan. We have offices in the US in:
-Escondido, California (San Diego Metro) Headquarters
-Portland (OR)
-Seattle
-Sacramento
-Chicago
-Kansas City
-Las Vegas
-Grand Junction
The VMS Approach
To truly improve and optimize a project, our clients benefit most from a holistic approach of analysis and assessment of all of the factors in the VMS approach. This is what allows VMS to deliver solutions that can optimize the value of their projects and business. VMS services and techniques are structured to address all or any part of the value optimization process and designed to assist at any time, from project planning through implementation.
Read MoreValue Metrics
Developed by VMS and continuously refined as one of our core techniques, Value Metrics provides a standardized means of identifying, defining, evaluating, and measuring performance. Once this has been achieved and costs for all value alternatives have been developed, measuring value is a relatively simple matter.
Read MoreValue Optimization
Value is composed of four elements, each of which asks an important question:
How well? How much? How long? How certain?
Value optimization requires answers to these questions in the form of good alternatives to choose from.
What is value leadership?
Value leadership means integrating the Value Methodology into our core technique to help our clients optimize the projects, products, and services they deliver. It means offering the framework to solve virtually any problem and optimize the value of any project. It means being structured specifically to address managing, planning, coordinating, facilitating, and documenting comprehensive value improvement studies. It means managing value, risk, performance, decision analysis, cost and economic modeling, probabilistic estimating, and training (live and e-Learning). It means knowing when each of these is necessary to optimize value. That’s value leadership, and that’s VMS.
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