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Mr. Martyn PhillipsCanada |
Martyn Phillips, CVM, CVS, FICE, FCIWEM, P.Eng., PVM, is a Value Management consultant and study team leader. He has conducted value management studies for a variety of topics and significant projects in several different parts of the world. He has also represented owner organizations, contractors and traditional consultants in a variety of posts since 1964 on (separate) major facility and infrastructure projects of greater than US$3.6 Billion construction cost. Martyn has adapted the traditional Value methodology to address strategic needs and scenario planning for a wide variety of applications. He is approved through the SAVE International Certification Board to teach formal certification (Modules I and II) training for the Value methodology. Martyn currently serves on the SAVE International Board of Directors as Vice President, Services and Systems and he is the Director of International Affairs for Canada. Martyn is qualified as a Certificated Value Manager (UK); a Certified Value Specialist (US); a Professional in Value in Management (Europe); a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (UK) and a Professional Engineer (Canada). A Holistic Approach to Value Management Facilitation |
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Mr. Derek ThurnellNew Zealand |
Derek Thurnell is a full time quantity
surveying lecturer in the School of Construction at UNITEC Institute
of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. Between 1990 and 1999, he worked
as a full time quantity surveying consultant in several practices,
both in the UK, and in New Zealand. He lectures Bachelor of Construction
undergraduates on Value Management in the construction industry, and
he enrolled in April 2001 for a PhD (part time), working title "The
Personal Characteristics and Traits of Experienced Value Management
Facilitators and their Influence on the Effectiveness of the VM Workshop",
at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane. (Supervisor:
Prof. Martin Skitmore, Associate Supervisor: Adj. Prof. Roy Barton).
The Personal Style of The Value Management Facilitator - How Important Is It ? |
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Mr. David BaguleyAustralia |
David Baguley is a Fellow and the current President of the Institute of Value Management Australia, and a member of its Executive since 1993. David has been a practising value management facilitator for almost 15 years. His first role was as an internal service provider for the Queensland Electricity Industry, where significant savings were achieved with the capital cost of Stanwell Power Station (more than $200 Million), other generation and transmission infrastructure, including a half life refit of Gladstone Power Station. Since 1990 his company, Advanced Value Management Systems Pty Ltd has been providing value management and other group facilitation services to a broad range of public and private sector organisations. Their training courses in Innovative Value Management have been accredited by the IVMA. David's experience covers the full range of workshops, from pure value engineering to conceptual value management, and includes innovative approaches to pre-feasibility studies, especially in sustainable energy projects. He is at the forefront of the use of electronic meeting systems for workshops and has been the joint developer of a unique meeting software product, ideally suited for risk management and value management facilitators. Facilitating Triple Bottom Line Outcomes Using Value Management |
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Mr. Axel Peter RiedGermany |
Axel Peter Ried studied in Germany, Switzerland and the U.S.A. He obtained a Masters Degree in Business Administration and Applied Psychology. He also holds a Masters Degree of Machine Engineering. During his early career, he worked as a Director of the Berlitz School of Chicago and as an Assistant VP of the Singer Corporation N.Y. In 1962, he started his technical consulting company, RMM-Ried Management Methods. In 1989, he founded a design and engineering company, Berner + Ried GmbH. Mr. Ried has introduced Value Management, Value Analysis and Engineering in Europe starting in 1961. Ever since 1976 he has been a certified Value Specialist and Instructor in Germany. He has applied VM/VA/VE in over thousand companies of all branches of industry. Recently Mr. Ried has received a Presidential Award of the SJVE in recognition of his dedicated contribution to the advancement of Value Engineering. During the past 40 years, RMM has trained about 380,000 managers in VM/VA/VE, and co-ordinated about 8,000 project teams. Besides VM/VA/VE, Mr. Ried also is an expert in TQM and PM. Mr. Ried has written 15 books on various subjects and has presented numerous papers at international Value Management Conventions in Europe, the US, Japan, India, Malaysia, Singapore and China. Value Management - Innovation and Courage - The Best Answer to Extreme Challenges |
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Dr. Patrick S.W. FongHong Kong |
Dr. Patrick Fong is an outstanding advocate of Value Management. He was recognized when he received the Thomas D. Snodgrass Value Teaching Award from SAVE International in Nevada, USA on June 26, 2000. He was the first recipient of the award since it was introduced in 1998 by the US-based SAVE International. Patrick is a founding member and was the inaugural Membership Secretary of the Hong Kong Institute of Value Management. He held several offices in SAVE and is affiliated with many VM organizations. He was one of the judges for selecting speakers at the 1999 and 2000 annual SAVE conferences. He has conducted several research projects in team learning, facilitation skills, knowledge management, and benchmarking to disseminate information on VM. Patrick is a prolific author of more than 30 pieces of work, including papers for international conferences, manuscripts, and journal publications. He has presented many of these papers at international conferences and as an invited speaker. Recently, he was invited to the Canadian Society of Value Analysis' International Summit - "The Creation of Value within Organisations" as an international expert in Montreal, Canada in May 2000. Patrick is a registered Value Management Facilitator in Hong Kong and has conducted many VM studies for property developers, government departments, and consulting firms. He has taught Value Management courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and supervised numerous dissertations on different facets of Value Management at both the bachelor and masters levels. Value Management - Going All Out for Knowledge Creation |
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Mr. Eric SpainHong Kong |
His first career was in broadcasting in the UK and Ireland. He lived in Uganda and Singapore for a time and, eventually, settled in Hong Kong in 1973 when he joined the Telecommunications division of the Post Office. He then spent the next 17 years in various government departments on project design and implementation work. His last post was head of Police Communications. In 1992, started his own consultancy company concerned with telecommunications and related fields. He has a wide range of interests including music, jazz, art, Traditional Chinese Medicine, broadcasting in society, man in his environment and ways of thinking -- and is an expert in none of them. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He is also a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Value Management and of Project Chambers. Seeds of Human Fortune |
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Mr. Michael DallasUnited Kingdom |
Michael Dallas is the
partner at Davis Langdon & Everest (part of Davis Langdon Seah
International) responsible for the development and integration of
Value and Risk Management into their range of services to deliver
more added value for clients. He is a founder member and past
chairman of the UK's Institute of Value Management (IVM). Michael
chaired the working group who developed BS EN 12973:2000, the European
Standard in Value Management and the guidelines to its use and implementation.
He was instrumental in developing the IVM¡¦s Training and Certification
System. Michael has, for many years, applied innovative Value and
Risk Management to a wide variety of construction related projects
at all stages in their life cycle. He is the author of numerous
papers and a regular speaker at professional events.
Creating Conditions for Successful Projects |
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Mr. Mike VandenbergNew Zealand |
Mike Vandenberg is the Principal of Business
Consulting for Infinity Solutions, an integrated business solutions
providor in the areas of IT, HR, Fixed Assets and Business Process.
Infinity Solutions have in excess of five hundred staff located at
offices throughout New Zealand and Australia. One focus area of the
Business Consulting group is the facilitation of group problem solving
workshops where a number of processes including Value Management are
utilised by Mike and his facilitation team. Mike has presented many
papers and interactive training workshops in New Zealand, Hong Kong,
Australia and South Africa. Mike and his team have facilitated in
excess of 1,000 group problem solving workshops over the last ten
years and Mike has personaly facilitated more than fifteen Partnering
and Value Management workshops in Hong Kong in the last 12 months.
Mike is currently leading a number of long-term facilitation service
relationships and the delivery of two large organisational change
projects which heavily involve facilitation and broad organisational
involvement.
Partnering and Collaboration - Which Approac is Best for Your Situation? |
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Prof. Wang GuohongChina |
Wang Guohong, vice director of Technical Economics, Dalian University of Technology; vice secretary-general of National Colleges Value Engineering Committee. Research Programs participating in: (1) Municipal New Industry Development Forecast (National Science and Technology Ministry); (2) Research on Core Ability of Industries in Coastal Cities (National Science and Technology Ministry); (3) Developing Plan for Dalian High-tech Zone; (4) Research on Name Brand Products and industries in Dalian; (5) Technological Innovation Diffusion (sponsored by National Natural Science Fund); (6) Research on Transformation of Source-driven Industries in Source-driven cities (sponsored by National Natural Science Fund) The Research on Clusters and Networks of High-tech Enterprises in Liaoning Province |
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Prof. Matthew LockeUnited Kingdom |
Value Management in Collaborative Agreements |
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Mr. Gerard BozetCanada |
Mr. Bozet has over 30 years experience in Operations & Production management as manager, senior executive and management consultant in large and mid size businesses in the area of both traditional and social economy. He is also a renowned university instructor and business trainer. Over the past 10 years he has successfully conducted over 100 Value Management related assignments and helped multinational companies achieve tremendous supply chain cost reductions ( 20% to 60%). He has also several times applied VM to realign strategically private sector companies as well as building comprehensive business plans aimed at successfully refinance their operations. He recently was first to introduce VM in the canadian nonprofit sector while helping the largest private Canadian foundation create social value. Partnering
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