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Top Executive Praise
Qwest Communications International, IncEd Mueller, Chairman and CEO "I have never come across a more powerful business tool than MVT® to identify what needs to be done." 
Bridgestone/Firestone Retail (BFRC)Bill Perdew, COO "8.1% increase in sales... $14,000 per month average profit increase across 2,100 stores... Huge!... It's absolutely worth the investment!" 
Big LotsRob Claxton, SVP Marketing "Thirty days after I got to Big Lots, I said we have to do this [MVT] and now. It was very important to our overall long term objectives...We are the best performing retail stock on the NYSE this year." 
Life TouchChuck Feltz, President "This is a great process for tackling large strategic issues... I've found MVT to be one of those practices that actually 'walks its talk' and does deliver when it's executed properly." 
Superior Essex, Inc.Stephen Carter, CEO "What I have found is that MVT® works...time after time...for company after company!" 
Pacific BellMike Kaufman, President- Consumer "QualPro is different...They have proven to me they get results. The thing that differentiates QualPro from others is that they are there to help you with the implementation. They see it through to the end." 
AutoNationGary Marcotte, SVP Marketing "Our conclusion was of all the things we have tried over the last six years nothing ever really did anything until we did MVT. ...cost is nothing when you consider the value." 
Beaulieau of AmericaCarl Bouckaert, CEO "I had no idea such a powerful tool existed...If your competition is regularly using MVT® and you are not, you are in trouble!" 
Lincoln Paper & TissueKeith Van Scotter, President & CEO "We needed a way to stay ahead of our competition by addressing complex problems without a lot of people and money...MVT is going to be a way of life for us, and it is going to be one of our key tools to drive improvement." 
Newspaper Services of AmericaDave Walker, President of Business and Strategic Development "Where I really found MVT to be highly valuable is that it helped me make good decisions all through my career in three different places where I've used it. In the current job that I'm in right now we have to make 625,000 good decisions basically every single year." 
HexacombC. William McBee, Vice President and GM "MVT® is good because it works everywhere, it works on everything, everyone loves it and I know for a fact it produces results."
Rapid Improvement
Olin Chlor Alkali ProductsFrank Chirumbole, VP of Manufacturing and Engineering "QualPro is fast. We had results in 3 months without pushing hard. Six Sigma, in 3 months, you might have gotten your organization identified and maybe even named your black belts or green belts or talked about the process. It's extremely slow." American Express Kathleen Ostrom, Director-Cardmember Retention "By the time you figure out what to do, the marketplace has changed. We needed something that was going to get us there quickly. So of course the solution was QualPro and MVT®." 
CingularBurton Phillips, Senior Manager of New Store Development "We are reaping the benefits of QualPro testing. We are able to do this in 60 days of testing and implementation 30 days later nationally."
Broadly Applied
Progressive InsuranceDavid Skove, General Manager-Agent Sales "There's almost no end of things that we can test...and in a very short period get some answers...the payoff was huge...things that we found had opportunities in the hundreds of millions of dollars." 
DynoNobelDave Pruett, VP "Because the [MVT®] process is extremely versatile, it works equally well on batch or continuous processes. Its use can range from a single operator or laboratory technician doing a small experiment to an experiment that involves several different plants...The technique scales beautifully." 
BASFArt Colwell, Vice President and General Manager "There is a hidden idle plant in your assets - you've only to look with the right glasses, and MVT® can help you do that." 
SBC CommunicationsNeil Ismert, General Manager "We've touched all areas of the business....Literally hundreds of MVT®s...the bottom-line impact for the first ten years is approximately $1 billion." 
Sauder WoodworkingChuck Lawrence, Vice President "Almost anywhere the process asks a question. We'll be there with an MVT®."
Surprising Breakthroughs
SBC AmeritechDennis Harris, President "SBC Ameritech used MVT® to solve a massive problem and reach performance levels that we had not achieved in over 20 years." 
Boise CascadeMiles Hewitt, Vice President "MVT®s are fun...it's really entertaining to watch the "experts" try to explain what they heretofore deemed impossible." 
Circuit CityJeff Wells, Senior Vice President "The MVT® process...What did we learn about ourselves? That our gut stinks." 
Southwestern BellCharles Roesslein, VP "It's so powerful to me-it's like magic. It's every manager's dream come true. A mathematical method that tells you what to change in the process, how much to change it, and what the impact of the change will be." 
Progressive InsuranceJim Cavoli, General Manager "MVT® is great for us because we're willing to abandon our sacred cows...Every single direct mail rule of thumb we tested was ineffective." 
StaplesKristin Miller, Director-Marketing Strategy "It's important that you separate, qualitatively, what people say versus what they do...that's what QualPro really has allowed us to do....gut is not always right."
Creates a Can-Do Culture
American Media Iain Calder, Editor-in-Chief "People throughout our organization got excited; from top to bottom, they were being listened to. It boosted morale." 
International PaperAndy Mouhot, QPI Department Mgr. "The real power of MVT®, in my opinion, is that you engage all of your work force in generating the ideas, designing the experiment, implementing the experiment, and actually retaining and sustaining the gains you generate." 
E.I. DuPontRon Lee, GlobalDirector "We brought QualPro in, and in less than six months, zero capital dollars, zero cost dollars expended, no additional people were added, no new equipment, and it created a can-do winning attitude among our people...this was worth $23 million in terms of additional capacity and increased sales."
Outstanding ROI
E.I. DuPont
Scott Gray, Plant Manager"During the eight years I've used MVT®, I've never once budgeted consulting fees because every year the payback has been in the 20 to 25 times range of what I've spent." 
ExxonJohn Harrelson, Forney replacement Project Venture Mgr. "Companies that have started MVT®-several years down the road they'll still be conducting MVT®s. They're still using the MVT® tools, and it's making big bucks. When you look in hindsight, the cost is minuscule compared to the savings." 
Oil-Dri Corporation of AmericaDan Jaffee, CEO "You don't need to budget for the whole concept of using QualPro and MVT® because it pays for itself so rapidly...you go ahead and spend the money, and you'll get the payback within your fiscal year." Client List Request More Information about MVT® Is MVT® right for you? Schedule a no obligation conversation with an MVT® Expert. |
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Since 1982, QualPro has used Multivariable Testing (MVT®) with 1000+ companies to test 100,000+ improvement ideas. MVT® tests between 20 and 40 ideas simultaneously, accurately predicting the bottom-line impact of potential process changes in weeks. Take existing process initiatives, like Six Sigma, to a whole new level. All process improvement tools and approaches (TQM, DOE, Six Sigma, Re-Engineering, SPC) can be enhanced through the use of Multivariable Testing by QualPro.
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