APARIQ, Inc.

APARIQ is prepared to support your detailed assessments, validation, verification, planning, metrics, successful implementation, and integration of:

• Business Systems Improvement
• Energy Systems improvement
• Systematic Financial Improvement
• Technical Systems Improvement

Business Systems Improvement
Many businesses and government business organizations, believe the best way to fix a business is to fire the failing managers (or have them “resign for personal reasons”) and bring in a new set of managers who know how to run the business.

All too often, boards of directors and overseers, fail to examine the right issues until it is too late.

The best businesses periodically bring in outsiders to examine their businesses in systematic and fully integrated ways to work toward improvement, even when things appear to be going well.

We are prepared to work with you to systematically assess, validate, verify, plan and help implement and improve your business systems.

Energy Systems improvement
Before the price of oil dropped from more than $140 per barrel to $40 per barrel in early 2008, many governments, utilities, and businesses thought they fully understood how to think about the impact of energy.

Emerging alternative energy mandates, new types of alternative energy, implementation of electricity smart grids, pending uses of time-of-use electricity billing, and other changes in technology result in great confusion and debate among experts about how to think about energy alternatives, use, pricing, risk, and best strategies.

We are prepared to work with you to help you consider, understand, and systematically improve your considerations, planning, trade-off analyses, and implementation relative to energy.

Systematic Financial Improvement
Financial Systems are the basis for many useful metrics for systematic business, energy, technical and human resource improvements. Few commercial businesses, utilities or governments can run without adequate funding; so sound financial systems have been and remain the life-blood of the survival, operation, improvement and growth of commercial businesses, utilities, governments, research organizations, and non-profits.

We are prepared to work with you to systematically improve your financial systems above and beyond fundamental accounting systems, so that you can improve your business systems, energy requirements, and technical needs.

Technical Systems Improvement
All too often organizations grow comfortable with the way they have technically conducted business or operations in the past.

Many times it is difficult to figure out what went wrong, when performance in a commercial company, a government entity or not-for-profit organization fails to achieve success.

Frequently, there is a failure to honestly and pragmatically assess and improve technical systems within an organization. Consider the failures and technical mis-steps associated with the following organizations:

• Silicon Graphics
• Molten Metals
• Enron
• VeraSun Energy

• Sharper Image
• Wachovia Bank
• Value City
• Entrepreneur Magazine

• Columbia Aircraft
• Blockbuster
• Selection & Installation of $400 million of New Orleans Pumps after Katrina