Clients and results
Why an expedition? Ask the sponsors.
We have had the good fortune to work with a wide range of organizations on many diverse problems. It was during many of these innovation and quality workshops, under the hat of the Office of Strategic Innovation, that the Virtual Thinking Expedition Company has its roots.
“When we went on expedition the project was costed at $7 million. To meet approval guidelines it had to be reduced to $5 million, which we thought was impossible. Using the ideas we came up with on the expedition we were able to submit the project at $4.6 million.”
Engineering Manager, chemical plant
“After being on expedition, people aren’t nearly as fearful about pushing the company envelope. We came up with ideas our old mindset would never have considered. We have made the mindshift to thinking differently that was necessary to be able to do different.”
Executive, major oil company
“Innovation and the Thinking Expedition has changed the way our Quality Improvement Teams are working. Our first group of 16 teams projected $113 million in savings.”
Quality Manager, Fortune 100 company
“Within two days of getting back I had organized a mini-expedition for a Fortune 50 client. The results were unbelievable, and we locked in a $500,000 per month account.”
Senior Consultant, reengineering firm
Representative clients
ARCO · Army Air Force Exchange Service · AstraZeneca · AT&T · Avery Dennison · Battelle National Laboratories · Bechtel · Bell Northern Research · Boeing · Bosch · British Petroleum · Cadillac Fairview · California Highway Patrol · Capital One · Chase Manhattan Bank · Clorox · Compaq · Computer Sciences Corporation · ConEdison New York · Conoco · Cypress-Fairbanks ISD · Department of Defense · DuPont · EDS · E-Systems · Exxon · Ford Motor Company · General Dynamics · General Mills · General Motors Marketing · Greater Houston Partnership · Halliburton · Hoechst-Celanese · Houston ISD · IBM · Johnson & Johnson · Kellogg Brown & Root · Kellogg’s · KFC Australia & New Zealand · Kimberly Clark · Northwestern University · NYU Medical Center · Procter & Gamble · R.J. Reynolds R&D · Rice University · Shell Oil · Texaco · Texas A&M University · Texas Instruments · The Jewish Education Project · Timken Steel · Tulane University · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Army Materiel Command · U.S. Marine Corps · U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center · U.S. Navy · Union Carbide · University of Chicago · University of Houston · Veterans Administration · Wachovia Bank · Waste Management
[Rolf: prune, and add work since 2014. The 1998 to 2014 expedition log is archived and can be summarized here as a track record.]
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