Certified Value Analysis Leadership Workshop - Early Bird Special

I just wanted to send out a quick note to let you know that there is only 18 more working days left to sign up for the Early Bird Special for our June, 24th, 25th and 16th CVAL - Certified Value Analysis Leadership 3-Day Workshop (http://www.ValueAnalysisUniversity.com ) and save over $200 in the process.  We have enhanced and added many new elements that we did not have in the previous two classes (that are based on our past workshop attendee’s requests) that we believe will take this program to a whole new level of supply chain savings beyond price!  Here is what we have done.
  • Added Many More Value Analysis, Utilization and Supply Savings Case Studies
  • More Focused Training on Utilization Management and Benchmarking for Value Analysis Professionals
  • Focus the Training to Be More Hands on with Real Time Actionable Results
  • Share with you the Latest Strategies, Tools and Methods to Save More in Less Time with Less Effort
  • Further Enhanced our Value Analysis Leader Web Software (included in the workshop)
    • New Utilization Benchmarking Section
    • More Savings Ideas to the Savings Idea and Best Practice Database
    • More Members Only Webinars
Don’t miss out on our exciting Certified Value Analysis Leadership Workshop, to learn more about the program visit  http://www.ValueAnalysisUniversity.com
 
Your partner in Savings Beyond Price,
 
Robert T. Yokl
President & Chief Value Analyst
http://www.strategicva.com
 
 
P.S.  Take a look at our our web page to see what our past attendees are saying about the CVAL program, http://www.ValueAnalysisUniversity.com

Tip of the Week Article: What Value Analysis Is and What It is Not!

May 7, 2008 · Filed Under Utilization, Value Analysis · Comment 

It’s About Commitment, Discipline and Focus!

What’s value analysis all about?  It’s about commitment, discipline and focus and finding lower cost alternatives to what you are doing now!  If you are missing even one of these success components you can’t and won’t have consistent, sustainable and substantial savings results.

VA is all about having your senior management commit to making savings happen for your supply value analysis program or it will slowly, but surely sputter, fizzle and die.

VA is all about having discipline (practices and methods to enforce acceptable behavior) from the top, right down to your value team level or you will be going every which way — but forward.

Value analysis is NOT about GPOs, capitation, standardization or custom contracts, but is all about utilization management: wasteful and inefficient consumption, misuse, misapplication and mismatches. If you are focusing all or most of your efforts on the price side of the supply equation, you are missing 79% of your hidden savings opportunities.

To bring these points home here’s is an example: we once were retained by a hospital CEO who intuitively understood that saving money was ALL about commitment, discipline and focusing on finding lower cost alternatives to what his hospital was doing.  With our help, he organized, and operationalized his hospital’s multi-phased savings initiative.  He then became the chief cheer leader for his management team and hospital staff, encouraging his staff at every opportunity to dig deeper and broader then ever before to search out and find those hidden savings. Well, as you could have guessed, within a year his hospital saved over $6.5 million.

There is no magic to this success formula; just the commitment, discipline and focus to make savings happen the old fashion way: Hard Work!   

Your Partner In Innovative Savings,

Bob Yokl

Robert T Yokl

Chief Value Strategist

Strategic Value Analysis® In Healthcare

P.S. If you are looking to establish, enhance, re-energize and dramatically improve your value analysis program (or you have hit the wall on savings) then our Certified Value Analysis Leader Program to be held on June 24-26 is the ticket for you. And, as a bonus, you will receive a one-year subscription to our new Value Analysis Resource Web at “no cost” to you. Note: Only 25 days left to save on our early bird rate of $1,192.00! click here to learn more

 

P.P.S. Hove you checked-out our new and improved Savings Beyond Price™ blog where I talk this week about the “Supply Chain Hall of Fame Honors Nine Superstars”.? Can you guess who the honorees are?  If not, I have listed them for your review. and I hope some comments.  Visit the Blog Here