ContentDesk) July 7, 2005 — Ford, General Motors, and many other Fortune 500 companies are getting their lunch eaten by foreign competitors. Within just the past two weeks, Ford has announced that it is cutting 5% of its salaried positions and General Motors revealed plans to scale back its workforce by 25,000 over the next three years. Most experts agree that U.S. companies must dramatically improve their ability to turn out high quality products that are desirable to consumers, but there is no agreement on how we can solve this growing problem.

U.S. corporations. “American executives are relying on grossly inadequate techniques to increase product quality, manufacturing/service efficiency, and selling effectiveness” says Charles Holland, author of Breakthrough Business Results with MVT: A Fast, Cost Free “Secret Weapon” for Boosting Sales, Cutting Expenses, and Improving Any Business Process. “Techniques such as ISO or QS 9000, Lean Manufacturing, and Six Sigma may be useful in order to document current practices or identify low hanging fruit.

Holland’s technique known as the MVT (Multivariable Testing) process was developed in the nuclear weapons industry where he used a step-by-step procedure to solve manufacturing problems. “From there, the procedure has evolved over the years to where it is now,” says Holland. “It identifies practical, fast, cost-free actions and works every time on anything that needs improvement.”Although it has been heralded as a breakthrough business tool in major publications like Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, the Economist and Business Week, the MVT process remains under the radar.

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