What is Value Innovation (VIW)?  What Does It Drive?
Delivering Exceptional Value to the Most Important Customer in the Value Chain...all the time!...every time! Used on a consistent basis, it drives sustainable, profitable growth and creates jobs. American Vanguard (AmVac) uses our 10-Step Value Innovation Process™, to delight their Most Important Customers.
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Dick Lee and his concept of Value Innovation Works.
Dick is a Fulbright Scholar and a member of the Fulbright Academy. He is the Co-Chair to their worldwide Entrepreneurs Group and the creator of the VIW concept. Dick has an extensive business background.  Presenting the Value Innovation Concept is Mike Franchell, the founder and executive Director of the Community Based Business Incubator Center, Inc.™ 
Dr. Richard Lee- Value Innovation web site is: http://www.valueinnovations.com
Value Innovation Works picks up where the innovation guru’s books leave off.  This book gives the innovation practitioner a 10-Step Value Innovation Process roadmap with a rich enabling toolbox to get right down to work on innovation.  Value Innovation Works provides wonderful examples of these tools in action and an amazing array of very practical insights.  I've used the Value Innovation Process and it Works, very well!  Follow it and you'll be able to move mountains. 

Bruce Janda, Global Innovation Leader – Forming, AstenJohnson
Appleton, WI, USA
Dick has managed, and had full P&L responsibility for, operating units of Fortune 500 Companies and led R&D organizations.  He served as Vice President, Strategic Business Operations, Johns Manville Corporation [1988-1992]; Vice President R&D for Pharmaseal, a division of American Hospital Supply and subsequently Baxter Healthcare Corporation [1985-1988]; Vice President, Onan Corporation and General Manager, Elgar Corporation (McGraw Edison Corporation) [1982-1985]; Vice President and General Manager, the Portable Battery Division of Gould Inc
[1977-1982]; and Manager, Vehicle Emission Control R&D, UOP Inc. [1972-1977].

Dick Lee is CEO and Chief Innovation Officer of  Value Innovations, Inc. (VI).  VI was incorporated as a Chapter C company in Colorado in August, 1999.  VI helps its customers value innovate and drive sustainable, profitable growth through webinars, workshops and consulting services.  VI has 16 team members and 20 partners in Belgium, Canada, India, Serbia, UK and the USA. http://www.valueinnovations.com/workshops/more/attendees

Dick has delivered 87 Value Innovation Workshops in Asia, Europe, SE Asia and North America.  Dick has led consulting projects for more than fifty clients  including:  Alcan, American Vanguard, AstenJohnson Bekaert, Brady, Cargill, Chevron, Ciba Corning Diagnostics, Exxon Research and Engineering, Gates Corporation, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Honeywell, Johns Manville, Johnson Controls, KBR (an operating unit of Halliburton), Kennametal, Millipore, Mobil Oil Corporation, PG&E, Philip Morris USA, Procter and Gamble, Raychem, and SAIC. 

Dick is the youngest Emeritus Member (49, 1992) and a past Member of the Board of Directors, Industrial Research Institute (IRI) [1990-1992].  He is cited in Who's Who in America (1992 - present).  He is a co-author of the book Value Innovation Works.

He has a BS degree from the University of London (1964) and was a Fulbright Scholar from  1964-1965.  He has an MS from Northwestern University (1965), a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of London (1968), and completed the Mini MBA program at the College of St. Thomas (1980).

Dick is a British citizen and permanent resident of the United States.  He lives in Castle Pines Village in Colorado with his wife Lin.  They have two daughters and four grandsons.
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See Value Innovation in action:
http://amvac-chemical.com/CorporateVideo/ValueInnovation/tabid/167/Default.aspx
Workshops:
Mike Franchell holds VIM  Workshops. you might be interested in attending a scheduled workshop or you might want a wokrshop for your business or network. 
Mike Franchell's VIW Scheduled Workshops: