SAVE International
SAVE International is the premier international society devoted to the advancement and promotion of the value methodology (also called value engineering, value analysis or value management). Value methodology benefits include decreasing costs, increasing profits, improving performance and improving quality.
Society members practice the value methodology in the public and private sectors for organizations in more than 35 countries. VM applications span a variety of fields, including construction, product design and manufacturing, transportation, health care, government and environmental engineering.
SAVE International offers member services such as education and training, publications, tools for promoting the value methodology, certification, networking and recognition.
Vision
SAVE International will be the leading advocate for the practice of value enhancing methods.
Mission
SAVE International will promote, support, and advance the practice of value enhancing methods through global exchange, networking, certification, member services, professional growth, and recognition.
Strategic Goals
- Promote the value methodology worldwide.
- Collaborate with societies and organizations with common interests.
- Identify new opportunities for application of the value methodology.
- Embrace new tools and techniques.
- Create more flexible and comprehensive value education.
- Expand and diversity membership.
- Enhance the image of the profession.
Core Values and Beliefs
The following core values and beliefs give SAVE International boundaries in the pursuit of its vision.
- Foster an environment for personal and professional growth.
- Embrace honesty and integrity.
- Celebrate the accomplishments of members.
- Advance the profession worldwide.
- Concentrate on strengthening the knowledge of members.
Future
“VM offers great promise for solving problems of the new millennium, as well as continuing to enhance the value of products, services and systems, and construction projects.”
SAVE International plans to play the following role by 2020:
- Because of SAVE International’s influence the problem-solving value methodology, including function analysis, is intimately familiar to chief executive officers and chief financial officers of corporations and government agencies worldwide for achieving stellar results in adding value to products, services, construction projects and business operations.
- SAVE International is known as the premier value organization, with highly skilled members providing value-based leadership in every facet of VM application.
- Opportunities abound as SAVE International members enjoy top career advancement and business success due to the variety of educational and value-based research offered by the society at universities, symposia, on the Internet and in collaboration with societies of similar interests.
- SAVE International is the repository of all value and related improvement methodologies, as well as information knowledge databases, for people everywhere.
If you don’t know where you are going, anywhere will do.
A long-term vision helps the society better plan (and focus) in the near term.
A dream of the future is the beginning of progress toward success.
