Breakthroughs are possible...
Powerful solutions – effectively implemented
A simple concept. Let’s break it down.
Powerful solutions For a solution to be powerful, it first must be appropriate to your company. It must touch the issues that lift you to higher levels of performance. Many “solutions” sound great. They might have produced tangible results somewhere else. But a solution to someone else’s problem doesn’t necessarily help you. It might even hurt you by drawing away resources and attention from real opportunities. Second, a powerful solution must be capable of delivering the required results. A 5% or 10% increase in delivery performance or productivity is an improvement. If you need 25% or 50%, however, the smaller improvement falls short. You need solutions that provide you with a competitive edge.
Effective implementation Third, you need solutions that are implementable. Once you match capable solutions to genuine opportunities, you must put those solutions in place to convert potential benefits into real benefits. The implementation step is crucial. Improvement efforts probably slow to a crawl due to poor implementations more than anything else. When progress slows, it’s usually because of the informal systems – the ways things really work. You need implementations that give life to those powerful solutions.
Results
We help you effectively implement powerful solutions. We appropriately connect proven technologies in areas such as production, distribution, engineering, finance and IT to compelling value propositions. We help your team identify and understand the critical relationships in your formal and informal systems. (Proven tools and approaches exist for mapping behavioral systems just as they do for mapping value streams and IT processes.) Your team members put the pieces together in ways which might seem counter-intuitive — but in ways that will ring true once you see them. They discover the erroneous assumptions and behaviors preventing your company from reaching the next level. The good news is they can change those assumptions and behaviors quickly once they appreciate their devastating effects. With the door now open for effective implementation, we work side-by-side with your team to get you to the next level. Powerful solutions – effectively implemented.
Our Niche - High-Leverage Improvements
We want to help you find and exploit high-leverage improvement opportunities. We can and will help you improve processes — both production processes and business processes. We can and will help you select and implement manufacturing systems. We can and will help you with your internal reporting, performance measurement and decision-support needs. We can help you achieve tangible results within your Lean, Six Sigma, ISO or other Continuous Improvement framework. We are pleased to help in these and other ways — provided the value to be delivered is commensurate with your investment. Since your behavioral system is unique, your competitors will find it difficult to duplicate your solution. We stand apart from many other firms in our ability to help you align your organization to the high-leverage improvement potential that exists. While it's important to improve processes and remain technologically current, these efforts achieve their full bottom-line impact only when explicitly linked to the leverage points in your organization's behavioral system. We can help you find those leverage points, and then help you implement world class solutions. Better yet, since your behavioral system is unique, your competitors will find it difficult to duplicate your solution. You thus benefit from solutions both powerful and relatively sustainable.
Our Mission
- Assist clients in creating value for their owners, other investors, customers and employees
- Provide meaningful professional development and financial opportunities to those who associate with us
- Glorify Jesus Christ through our dedication to excellence and integrity
Our Values
- We practice servant leadership in the context of New Testament writings
- We enjoy helping people find solutions to previously intractable problems
- We succeed by helping others succeed and grow, both individually and corporately
- Accountability is both necessary and good
Meet Terry
Terry Breunig founded VALUE CREATORS in 1994 after 8 years with Ernst & Young, at the time one of the world's "Big 6" firms. While at E&Y he worked with several major clients, as well as a number of small and mid-sized firms. Terry won plaudits at Ernst for being one of the firm's best process analysts, and helped formalize their process value analysis (i.e., value stream mapping) methodology. He was invited to join the project team for what at the time was internationally the firm's highest-profile internal improvement project. Since starting his solo practice, Terry has worked primarily with small and mid-sized companies, ranging from $5 million to $400 million in sales. Over his 30+ years of experience, he has worked in a number of both discrete and process manufacturing environments. He has worked extensively in operations, manufacturing systems and finance, and has touched most other major functional areas in some significant way. He also has been a CFO who assisted with two acquisitions. Terry holds an MBA (marketing concentration) from the University of Illinois, and a bachelor's degree in communication from Oral Roberts University. He has earned certifications as a Jonah (systems thinking, problem solving, conflict resolution), a Theory of Constraints (TOC) supply chain solutions implementer, CPIM and a CMA.