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EV Management

by Ian S. Brammar Ph.D.

247 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-3069; ISBN 1-4251-6624-5; US$99.00, C$99.00, EUR67.63, £51.11

EV Management, the new "top-downing" Management system used to achieve highly profitable and competitive World Class companies in less than 3 years. Applicability: all sizes and types of companies.

About the Book

Over the last 3 decades there has been an upsurge of new "bottom-upping" methods designed to give major improvements in key operational areas of companies such as in quality and productivity. However in over 99% of companies these have been introduced into an existing old-fashioned "top-down", out of date management system. This has resulted in unattained, lost productivities over 20%, and often over 30%.

EV Management is the new "top-downing" management method to match the new "bottom-upping" methods and is designed to maximise profitability, overall business performance & competitiveness.

EV enables managers for the first time to:

- Obtain a precise picture, using a small number of accurate measures, of your company's performance compared to similar companies anywhere in the World

- Locate what internal opportunities, directly under your own control, exist now in your company to rapidly, in minimum time and with minimum cost produce large improvements in profitability & competitiveness

- Measure exactly what to do and what new skills to add on, in order of priority, to grasp these internal opportunities and much more!

About the Author

Dr Ian S. Brammar was trained as a metallurgist at Sheffield University in the U.K. where he gained the degrees of B.Met.(Hons), M.Met and Ph.D. The first half of his career was spent in product development first at Tube Investments Ltd Research Laboratories, Cambridgeshire, then at Aeon Laboratories, Egham, Surrey, and finally at BHP Research Laboratories, Melbourne Australia. During this period he was involved in such diverse projects as the Al alloy for skinning the Concorde airliner to developing new high strength, formable sheet steels for cars and trucks. He was also involved in making out the case for the purchase of major steel making plant (vacuum degassing and continuous slab casting) and advised Posco Iron & Steel in Korea on Steel Research and Development programs.

He then accepted the position as CEO of a National Australian project to identify what was needed to convert manufacturing companies to World Class performers, particularly in profitability and competitiveness. The conversion process was to be done at lowest possible cost and in the shortest practicable time. Some of the missing management components were found during research over the next 10 years but no complete solution was identified.

This led Dr Brammar to form his own company, International Executive Strategies Pty Ltd based in Melbourne, Australia, to produce an overall management system incorporating the components missing from existing management. The program involved research, development and extensive company trials taking 18 years from 1990 to the present and resulted in the new EV Management method.

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