Major companies in every industry have hailed QualPro's successes, and our clients have seen billions of dollars of positive financial impact. Our MVT ® Process has been praised in almost every leading business publication, including BusinessWeek, Forbes, the Economist, and The Wall Street Journal. Below is a selection of publications on QualPro's achievements in a wide variety of industries.
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The New Mantra MVT
"If you haven't yet applied multivariable testing to your business, get moving. Whether you run a factory, a mail-order house, or a hospital, it will probably improve your performance..." Read More |
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Finding a Better Way to Make Anything
"QualPro's Charles Holland explains his technique. Success stories of how Multivariable Testing (MVT) can boost the bottom line..." Read More |
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QualPro's Democratic Management Consulting
"Whether it's advising a manufacturer on better production or a retailer on sharper marketing, QualPro gathers ideas from everybody - for less..." Read More |
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Home Improvement Chain Puts Science to Work on Its Marketing
"Many advertising decisions boil down to someone's hunch about what might work best. Lowe's, the nation's second largest home retailer, says it has found a way to eliminate some of the guesswork..." Read More |
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Boosting Productivity Through Statistical Experiments
The Wall Street Journal recently featured QualPro client Unifi Inc. Unifi managed to turn |
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Enlisting Science's Lessons to Entice Shoppers to Spend More
QualPro "employs statistical techniques used in testing nuclear weapons to test different ideas at once. Take car dealers’ ads with their catchy slogan..." Read More |
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Grin and Bear It
"The Numbers Man - Should managers consult algebra before they redesign their factory or launch a product? A mathematician from Tennessee thinks so..." Read More |
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Night in the Wood Yard Opens Eyes, Saves Millions
"A 10-member team cut the cost of producing newsprint by at least $1.5 million a year after learning more expensive wood didn't make better paper..." Read More |
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QualPro Mentioned in Several Fortune Articles
Five Keys to Making Total Quality Work and The New Rules... Read More |
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Statistical Method Helps Boost Bottom Lines, Batting Averages
"Whether it's helping a kid hit a baseball further or trimming the repair backlog for a phone company, Charles Holland has the answer. Using statistical techniques..." Read More |
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A Measure of Leadership: Keep Trying
"Holland's work fits neatly into the 'experimentalist' mindset: everything is up for testing. What multivariable testing does is allow a number of variables to be tested at once..." Read More |
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BASF Breaks Through With Statistics
"There comes a time when chipping away at a trouble spot in a production process one incremental improvement at a time isn't enough ..." Read More |
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The Fast Track to Performance Breakthroughs: Testing improvement Ideas in Advance
"In a study of over 14,000 performance improvement projects only about 25% |
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How to Improve Your Business Without Really Trying
"The less complex alternative to Six Sigma. Over the past 20 years, companies such as Bridgestone/Firestone, BASF, Olin, Milliken, Carmax, and Lowe’s have been using QualPro’s MVT..." Read More |
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Mining for Golden Ideas
Investor's Business Daily featured ten traits of leaders that "can turn dreams into reality". QualPro's Charles Holland was featured for not being afraid to innovate... Read More |
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Cast a Wide Net for Ideas
"If your major competitor has beaten the socks off you in terms of stock price over the past few years, as Lowe's has with Home Depot, then you need to try a lot of new things..." Read More |
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Pilot Uses "Rocket Science" to Boost Profits
"Multivariable testing lifts the company's marketing merchandising, and advertising strategies to more profitable heights..." Read More |
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Small College Goes Big in Research for Recruiting
"To raise its profile, the university also set a familiar goal: to become more selective, and to enroll more high-achieving students. But how?..." Read More |
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Road Testing Ideas
"MVT helps Bridgestone / Firestone find programs with traction." Bill Perdew, COO shared how the MVT Process ® resulted in 8.1 percent growth among its more than 2,300 owned stores... Read More |
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Rapid Adjustment - Statistical Attack on Manufacturing
"BASF, ISP, Dyno Nobel and Witco have used a DOE system called multivariable testing (MVT)..." Read More |
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Manufacturers Find an Alternative to Six Sigma
"Unfortunately Six Sigma has a 90 percent failure rate, which has left companies with negative results, as well as considerable wastes of time, energy, labor and financial resources. The MVT ® Process provides a proven alternative to Six Sigma..." Read More |
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Consultant Scores with Mathematical Modeling
"It’s not necessarily easy to see how advanced mathematical principles could help make printed sales circulars more successful at lower cost. But that’s just what happened at Lowe’s Inc. and Staples Inc...." Read More |
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Multivariable Testing Helps Lincoln Memorial University Improve Recruitment
"Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, wanted to increase the profile of the incoming students who attended the liberal arts school..." Read More |
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How Monster.com Scares Up a Sales Boost
"Monster.com, the career search engine, used MVT to improve its telephone-acquisition sales force. They identified changes that will boost sales performance 25% in the next year..." Read More |
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The Ten Innovations that will have the Biggest Impact on Business
"MVT, a proprietary statistical methodology, pioneered by Knoxville-based QualPro, Inc., is the only non-technology to make the grade for need-to-know tech. MVT shrinks big project woes - time, cost and frustration..." Read More |
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Rapid-Fire Efficiency Techniques that Helped the RAF Bring Down Hitler's Bombers
"No matter how you are doing in your business, you could be doing better...Savings can come from the most unexpected places say MVT experts..." Read More |
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Combining Ideas from the Mill's Workforce to Build Improvements in Papermaking
"Combining the ideas and knowledge of a pulp and paper mill’s workforce with powerful mathematical methods proves to be a cost-effective and fast approach in solving a wide variety of production problems..." Read More |
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An Alumnus Teaches a University How to Double Its Donations
"Mr. Holland donated his company’s management-consulting skills to Lincoln Memorial University, |
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Numbers Tell the Story
Sales increase of 50% - "the entire sales organization recognized this tool's power to direct positive organizational change. These results are typical..." Read More |
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How One Hospital System Changed Hand Hygiene Compliance
Sentara Healthcare, a nonprofit health system that includes 10 acute care hospitals and covers 2 million residents in Virginia and North Carolina launched a system-wide testing and implementation project that increased hand hygiene compliance from about 77 percent to 95 percent... Read More |
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Retailer has Success Strategy Down to a Science
Retailers constantly weigh the right mix of promotions... QualPro works with retailers to determine what works..." Read More |
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Boost in Business May Mean (Ugh) Statistics
"Foreign companies already use numbers to their advantage, and now more US firms are giving it a try. Companies need to measure the process otherwise they can't manage their businesses..." Read More |
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Everything Old is New Again
QualPro is able to "project and track several desired processes simultaneously, instead of using slower and more traditional 'one-factor-at-a-time' methods..." Read More |
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Turning Small Ideas Into Big Results
"A quality control initiative tests the effectiveness of sales and marketing campaigns." Pacific Bell wanted to increase the revenues of incoming calls...." Read More |
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Boost in Business May Mean (Ugh) Statistics
To develop the best possible script BellSouth used Multivariable Testing (MVT), developed by QualPro. By focusing on three factors that helped, sales revenues increased 33%... Read More |
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The Corporate Curmudgeon: Keep ideas flowing, but zero in on winners
"The more ideas you test for effectiveness and the faster you implement the winners, the faster you evolve..." Read More |
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What Seems UnPromising Could Surprise You
An example from Lincoln Paper of how rapid experimentation made a 50 year old machine manufacture paper stock of improved quality...." Read More |
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Totaled Quality Management
"Consultants flourish helping firms repair the results of a business fad.". Read More |
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Multivariable Testing Aids Process Improvement
Blount Memorial Hospital worked with QualPro on a six month project focusing on its emergency department and operating rooms...Read More |
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QualPro Finds New Niche
"Knox consulting firm assists Lincoln Memorial in improving performance..." Read More |
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Strategic Testing Stops Leaky Liter Cartons in Their Tracks
"After receiving reports that its cartons of Cat's Pride were leaking product on store shelves, Oil-Dri Corp. employed multivariable testing methods to fine-tune a finicky production process..." Read More |
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Lincoln Paper and Tissue Survival Strategy: Improve Faster than Your Competition
"Using multivariable testing, LP&T operates at maximum efficiency, cuts costs, and continuously reduces waste..." Read More |
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Lincoln Paper - Amazing Turnaround Puts Maine Mill on the Up Slope
"Lincoln Paper and Tissue emerged from bankruptacy to install Maine's first tissue machine in 20 years, and the mill continues its upward trend with innovative, low capital improvements..." Read More |
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A Fresh Look
"The multivariable testing process can help improve your marketing, merchandising, or layout strategies by testing dozens of variables at a time..." Read More |
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Unifi Returns to Profitability
CEO William Jasper discusses using QualPro's multivarible testing process (MVT) to implement statistical process control in all areas...Read More |
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From Trouble to Triumph - Lincoln Paper
"QualPro gives a different perspective on this born again company. Through QualPro's MVT Process, Lincoln Paper has been able to improve paper quality, cut production costs and reduce chemical consumption..." Read More |
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Patient room notes, pop quizzes boost hand hygiene
Rapid testing of interventions help a health system figure out how to remind doctors, nurses and other health professionals to wash up...Read More |
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A Different Way to Test Your Message
"The case for applying multivariable testing before settling on a plan of attack. John Ragan's campaign before being elected to the state House...Read More |
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We Want Our MVT!
"And for good reason: Multivariable Testing (MVT) provides a process improvement tool that helps U.S. manufacturers compete in the global marketplace..." Read More |
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Putting Processes to the Test
"Unifi turned to management consulting firm QualPro and its MVT ® process about three years ago to help address its efficiency issues and allow Unifi to accelerate the rate of which the company has been able to bring new products and new processes to the marketplace...Read More |
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Understanding What Works Best for a Hand Hygiene Campaign
QualPro works with Sentara to improve hand hygiene...Read More |
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Key To Turnaround May Be Only A Click Away
"As businesses work to assess their risk and determine how best to stay afloat, the key to solving this problem and more may be just a click away, according to process improvement company QualPro Inc..." Read More |
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