"I have used the Value Spectrum in shifting from a paper-based publication to Web publication and knowledge management strategy.  The Value Spectrum has sharpened my perception of organizations and how they operate.”
- Wayne Hanson, Senior Executive Editor, Center for Digital Government, e.Republic, Inc.

“I recommend the ‘Service Value’ technique and, within it, the ‘Value Spectrum’ for any business executive who understands the value of effective communication and decision making.  … Having a simple structure to work with has proven invaluable.  I recommend taking the time to discover this valuable tool for yourself.”
- Mike Grove, CEO, Open Country.

“As an Executive Coach, I found Tom’s ‘Service Value’ model to be extremely effective.  This deceptively simple model allows complex ideas to hit home.  My clients have received greater clarity due to the model.  In one case, an executive who struggled with delegating realized where he was wasting time and more importantly, learned where to focus his time.  A second client noted that it was more effective than management books he has read.  I love this model for moving clients along their path quickly.”
- Sylvia FerroNyalka, PCC, President, Success Resources Inc.

“The Value Spectrum concept espoused by Dr. Buckholtz as part of his [Direct Outcomes] techniques has had significant impact on me while designing our standard-setting Maestro Business Model.  What makes it compelling is both its conceptual framework and practical-tool powers to solve business issues.”
- Victor Joshi, Managing Partner, Macho 2 Maestro Coaching LLC

“A Direct Outcomes workshop provides participants with practical and easy-to-understand techniques for assessing an organization’s performance and for executing business strategies.”
- Walter Kruz, Founder, Recova Research and Adjunct Professor, Lincoln University

“Dr. Buckholtz has developed an easy-to-use model for organizational improvement. It is quickly implemented and can be used in a variety of situations.  I recommend the ‘Service Value’ model to anyone who needs a simple guide for organized decision making and effective communication.”
- Lin Marelick, Dean of Workforce Development, Mission College

“To create, clarify and capture opportunities are the challenges we continually face in any endeavor. Direct Outcomes presents a cogent and practical framework to tease out what we can, should and must do. The tremendous utility of Direct Outcomes is that you may begin at where you are. As you gather more information / understanding the framework leads you to integrated solutions. As a project line manager and consultant I am always looking for a practical tool set. Direct Outcomes is that tool set of broad applicability that yields clear, specific and actionable direction.”
- John Pettigrew, Principal, Real Change Consultancy

“Dr Buckholtz’s ‘Direct Outcomes’ is a gem of practical frameworks for business decision making.  It tackles the seemingly mundane notions of style, services, impact, needs, methods, and outcomes while wrapping them into a robust pragmatic framework to help analyze and direct management decisions for remarkably impressive measurable results.  Direct Outcomes has broad applicability helping my IT consulting practice in areas as diverse as streamlining IT business continuity processes to designing and implementing value-rich design patterns in systems and software.  ...  Over time, … the methodology becomes each practitioner’s inimitable, native, but fundamental modus operandi.”
- Alexander Factor, Principal, Factor Consulting

“At last, a pragmatic approach to organizational and individual improvement – as deep in practical advice as it is comprehensive in scope.  An approach that any executive or professional can relate to and implement quickly.  In his [Direct Outcomes] technique, Dr. Buckholtz has captured the essential factors for effecting successful and substantial enterprise and personal effectiveness improvements.”
- Joe Feliu, Vice President, NeoDimensions, Inc; former VP Operations/CIO, Visto Corp and AllAdvantage.com; Adjunct Instructor University of San Francisco and Anderson School of Management/UCLA

“The Service Value technique provides a valuable tool for determining the essential details needed to achieve a business objective.”
- Roberta Moore, CEO, Revenue Optimization Council; Founder, Qualitative Marketing

“The application of Direct Outcomes' philosophy and tactics has the potential to be as important to the first half of the 21st Century as was the application of statistics and game theory to marketing and business strategy during the fourth quarter of the 20th Century.  Will it became a core competency taught in Business School like the math tools above?  I don't know; but I do know that smart, progressive businesses that adopt the Direct Outcomes structural view will have significant strategic and operation advantage over their competitors.”
- Harrison Rose; Founder and Vice President Business Development, Marketing, and Sales; Nisvara, Inc.

“The Service Value technique is a must-implement tool for Business Executives – indeed, anyone – focused on attaining results through pragmatic Decision Making and Effective Communication.”
- Ken Danchi, President & CEO, Plassmosoft Communications, Ghana.

“I think that this course would work well for individuals that a company is ‘watching’ for promotion.  It gives them an intellectual tool that is easily put into conventional practice.”
- From an evaluation of a Direct Outcomes workshop provided through the University of San Francisco, School of Business and Management, Executive Education program.

“The Service Value and Style Maturity techniques provide as important a conceptual breakthrough for enhancing business success as have Relativity and Quantum Mechanics for keeping physics viable.  Fortunately, unlike Relativity or Quantum Theory, almost any person, group, or enterprise can benefit quickly and significantly from Value and Maturity.”
- Ron Fredericks, President and CEO, Embedded Components, Inc.