Productivity • Value Add • Product Development

Productivity Improvement

"As an executive sponsor, I worked closely with Neil on several occasions to successfully reduce inventory costs, improve engineering practices and design/implement a Product Development Process for improving project predictability.  He has a unique blend of expertise and skills that serves him well in working across a company."

Mark Delsman, CTO
Adaptec, Inc.

"Our strategic planning retreat was a complete success. We didn't just achieve more than we expected; we achieved more than we hoped for. Neil consistently helped us clarify the issues, find common ground, come to a true consensus, and move on to the next task. The resulting strategic vision, goals and initiatives have created a blueprint for our future."

Steve Wolf, General Manager
Vander-Bend Manufacturing

"Neil Love was very effective in helping our department begin the transformation process that will take us to the next level of performance. Neil built trust and enabled us to work as a team to identify and address the key issues getting in our way."

John Chun, VP
SyQuest Technology

"Your ability to relate to the people, to unlock their creative talent and to provide them with needed productivity improvement tools has been essential to the excellent profit improvement that we have recently achieved."

James Elsner, President and CEO
Capital Controls Co., Inc.

"Your combination of team building, process mapping and problem solving created an excellent foundation for improvement. We look forward to further increased productivity and customer satisfaction."

Joan Pankey, Director
ARC Heath Services

"You made our senior management off-sites much more productive. I never expected to get through so many issues. Everyone felt heard and we came to closure on some very important strategic decisions."

Ralph Mele, CEO
Zantaz.com

"Neil Love is effective at all levels in the organization. His strong client partnering approach works well with senior managers who prefer resources that help you find the right answers for your organization rather than giving you their standard, 'works anywhere' answers."

John Menzies, III, Chairman
Terminal Corporation

"Neil influenced us to focus on productivity improvement and partnered well with me to design and deliver a powerful, yet practical program for increasing productivity 15% within months."

Zainab Issaq, Director of Human Resources
Candera, Inc.

"Neil led and facilitated many critical cross-functional improvement initiatives for Adaptec. These efforts were successful because he was able to see and stay focused on the technical, business and organization issues that were key to success. I highly recommend Neil as a consultant for ambitious executives who want to take their organizations to the next level."

Linda Thompson, Director - HRD/OD
Adaptec, Inc

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Value Add Improvement

"Clearly, you helped define a highly effective, accelerated process that launched NCD on the road to customer service improvement. You kept me pointed in the right direction and didn't allow the process to stall."

Robert Gilbertson, President and CEO
Network Computing Devices

"Neil contributed greatly to a demanding product cost reduction effort that involved global manufacturing and design operations.  His  executive coaching on managing change,  promotion of videoconferencing for our virtual team meetings and  project management skills for maintaining pace were key to helping us reduce product costs by 20%."

Dr. Samuel Chih, GM
Desktop Products Division
Adaptec, Inc.

"Throughout our work with Neil Love, we found him to be highly professional and responsive to our unique needs to take customer value to the next level."

Herbert Schneider, VP
Pitney Bowes

"I would recommend Neil and his expertise to any company interested in increasing value add for customers."

Michael Gast, Director
Glaxo Pharmaceuticals

"Neil Love is very knowledgeable in the customer value add field and provides the high level of professionalism that this type of effort requires."

Scott Menzies, President
Balterm Corporation

"Neil Love was an invaluable resource for our senior level customer value planning meetings and provided excellent coaching of our executives and middle level managers. I recommend him without reservation."

Carol Dennis, Director CQI
American Red Cross

"Working with Neil Love greatly increased our cohesiveness as a total organization. Both volunteers and staff are now positive about the need for change and about making changes to provide more value to customers."

Linda Klein, Director
Holocaust & War Victims Center

"Neil was an invaluable resource for our senior level planning meetings and provided excellent coaching of our executives and middle level managers. I recommend Neil Love without reservation."

David Simms, CEO/COO
American Red Cross

"Allow me to congratulate you on your professionalism, your thoroughness and your keen insight into our problems. Thank you for helping us improve our organization and thus making us more responsive to our internal and external customers."

Melvin Bender. President
J. Dashew, Inc.

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Product Development Improvement

"Neil facilitated the development of The Product Life Cycle Process for Candera.  His efforts greatly exceeded my expectations.  The usability and robustness of the deliverables was excellent.  Neil worked exceptionally well with our executives and the cross-functional team charged with creating a practical, yet potent PLC that increases project predictability and teamwork across the organization."

Sundi Sudaresh, CEO
Candera, Inc.

"The customer driven product definition process Neil Love provided was extremely effective in getting our project teams properly focused and gave us the competitive advantage needed to win."

John Bilodeau, Director - Engineering
Chamberlain MRC

"We highly recommend Neil Love. We have worked with him several times and are very satisfied with the process and deliverables, and plan on working with him on future projects."

Jim Mansour, Director New Product Planning
LifeScan, Inc.

"Neil was a significant asset to our team charged with developing a Product Development Process. He helped us lay out a practical plan for our work, provided samples and experiences from other companies and facilitated key team meetings. I highly recommend him."

Bruce Pittman, Director of Program Management
New Focus, Inc.

"One of the new product teams Neil worked with created a new product that produced first month revenue that equaled the 12 month revenue of the product it replaced."

Michael Beiter, Director Product Development
Black & Decker Corporation

"Neil Love was a key resource for us in assessing and improving project management throughout the company.  He is easy to work with, listens well to client needs, and is creative and persistent in finding solutions."

Carl Cheney, HRD Manager
3Com Corporation

"Neil skillfully designed and facilitated a Post Partum process for a major product release.  As the new VP of Engineering, it was vitally important I learn from all perspectives what was working well and what was not.  He was very effective at surfacing hidden issues and mobilizing action to address them."

Doug MacKenzie, VP Engineering
Candera, Inc.