OUR APPROACH
Our commitment to excellence is unwavering
Throughout Earth Tech we support a culture of excellence - an environment where critical thinking and creative problem solving are encouraged, nurtured and rewarded. Our dedicated and experienced project teams are part visionary and part realist. We approach every assignment from a variety of different perspectives taking into consideration the various factors that can make or break its success: shifting customer bases, growing operational demands, changing regulatory requirements and the need to balance short-term realities with long-term objectives.
We provide the resources needed to manage and execute projects from start to finish. Whatever the nature of the project - and whatever its complexity and scope - Earth Tech's depth of experience, breadth of capabilities, and integrated project life cycle approach will help achieve your goal.
As a single-source provider, Earth Tech brings to a level of continuity, accountability and consistency to managing projects that is simply not possible with the multi-vendor process. Around the globe, diversity is our strength. We offer a complete suite of services needed to address today's infrastructure challenges in the water, transportation, environmental and facilities markets.
Culture of Excellence
We look at every facet of a problem-and every consequence of an action.
We work with clients in many different ways. Some hire us for our expertise in a particular area, such as design, engineering, or construction management services. But more and more come to us for a turnkey package that encompasses everything from preliminary project planning to long-term operations and maintenance. The demand for our design/build/finance/operate capabilities, for example, underscores the depth and breadth of Earth Tech's experience, services, and resources.
Everything we undertake in partnership with you is done within multiple contexts: risks rewards, accountability, regulatory scrutiny, economic prudence, public sentiment, present realities and future possibilities. And whether you retain us to provide a single service or the entire package, we approach every project the same way: focused on delivering results that exceed expectations.
Customer Focus
Earth Tech's business philosophy is simple: we are accountable . Regardless of the project scope, our goal is to establish and maintain a standard of performance excellence that provides our clients with the services they need, when they need them.
Operational Excellence
Tyco President, Ed Breen, defined the importance of operational excellence in Tyco's in this year's annual report:
"As we look forward, we have a foundation of outstanding assets, including many prominent brands and truly great products. To maximize the value of these assets, we will continue to pursue a number of strategic initiatives to improve our performance and to generate significant cost savings, which will help us continue to pay down debt and invest in our future. Through these initiatives, we aim to generate at least $3 billion in cost savings and working capital improvements by the end of 2006.
Our strategy for operational excellence includes:
- Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing: In 2003 we began implementing Six Sigma and Lean across Tyco. Six Sigma and Lean are methods of examining and permanently improving processes to eradicate waste, defects and variability. Six Sigma and Lean can be applied to anything from product design to production workflow to call center operations. Its adoption has been credited with saving billions of dollars at leading companies around the world. Equally important, companies that have implemented Six Sigma and Lean find that it brings them much closer to their customers - something we will never stop striving to achieve at Tyco.
- Strategic Sourcing: With a fundamentally new focus on strategic sourcing, Tyco's hundreds of business units have already begun to leverage, for the first time, Tyco's full buying power. For example, our sourcing teams will generate significant cost savings in 2004 by combining purchases in such areas as telecommunications, transportation and computer systems.
With these initiatives now building momentum, Tyco's businesses have begun to collaborate with one another to share best practices. This interaction is benefiting both our employees and our customers, who are experiencing, many for the first time, the power, impact, and value of "One Tyco".
Technical Excellence
Earth Tech has received numerous awards for excellence in engineering and innovation in service that recognize our commitment to quality and to our clients.
Depth of Resources
Earth Tech is truly a borderless company. Resources throughout the company are fluid and, as a result, our professionals are often called to work or consult on projects that are down the street or on the opposite site of the globe. Backed by Tyco International, Ltd., Earth Tech is one of only a few organizations capable of delivering the full range of design, build, operate and finance services to large-scale projects. And our innovative use of state-of-the-art telecommunications systems allows us to offer borderless staffing well within the economic parameters of most projects.
