"The
Value Framework is an easy way for managers to structure their thinking
about strategy development! The problem with most strategy methodologies is that
it calls for a lot of content that most participants don't remember 6 months down
the road, the Value Framework is straightforward and easy to remember."
Alan Amling, Director, Electronic Commerce UPS
"Many
thanks for letting me test your methodology. I find the Value Framework
to be a very useful tool. In fact, we've just gone through a strategy exercise
that has taken quite a long time within our company, where we're rebuilding the
business plan and are very focused on getting the strategy communicated to the
employee base. I find the Value Framework to be a very trivial and very
intrinsic way to understand how to get all your thoughts together into a very
concentrated formula. Actually, I wish we had this tool before we spent the last
two months trying to do what we just did in an hour. Great stuff!!!"
Alfred Chuang, President & CEO, BEA
"I
think the Value Framework is a nice tool because it challenges people to
reassess where they are against the traditional building blocks of business as
opposed to taking a snapshot on where they are based on an arbitrary set of metrics.
Some of the building blocks will jump out at you as being important while some
will become important upon reflection."
Tim Sanders, Chief Solutions
Officer, Yahoo, Author, Love is the Killer App
"The
Value Framework analysis is a framework for understanding and creating
a synopsis of an organization's strategic values. The exercise of creating this
framework and revisiting the results has provided us with a concise statement
about our core business and the job ahead."
Peter Ostrow, President
& CEO, TestMart
"I
found our 1x1 session leveraging the Value Framework extremely interesting
and useful to our company. It made me focus on our strategic priorities and the
rationale behind them. Most importantly, it gave me an easy way to prioritize
our strategic initiatives.
Atul Vashitha, CEO, neoIT
"Strategic
planning is often shelved by time-strapped managers focused on core markets and
operations. Levy's Value Framework provides a simple, yet broad perspective
of business ecosystems, enabling a quick, painless study of both opportunity and
risk found within our business paradigms."
Todd Parsons, Division
Manager, Online Business Services, Silicon Valley Bank
"After our meeting, I implemented a new business model that allowed me to
immediately bring in a recurring revenue stream that instantly added $12K to my
bottom line and $100k+ over the next three years. Your Value Framework went
directly to the point of highlighting opportunities for growing my business and
increasing my revenue stream and profitability. Thank you!"
Jill
Amen, CEO and Publisher, Silicon Valley Map and Calendar
"Working
with the Value Framework was intuitive and an effective use of my time.
It provided unique insight into my business strategy and at the same time offered
specific tactical recommendations that I was able to implement immediately. I
highly recommend the Value Framework to companies looking to refine business
strategies and align major business functions."
Doug Warren,
Former CEO, Entrabase, Inc.
"Entrepeneurs
creatively substitute intuition and experience for analytics. As an unfortunate
side effect, they often fail to identify some minor but nonetheless crucial piece
of the puzzle. The Value Framework is a valuable way to test that
you haven't overlooked something essential."
Pete Harris, President
& CEO, The Bristol Group
"As
a venture capitalist, we're planning on using the Value Framework to help
our portfolio companies succeed."
Fred Sibayan, Co-Founder, Exodus
Communications, CEO, Sierra Vision Launch