Who We Are

Anderson Performance Improvement Company (APIC) leads the industry in unlocking the performance potential of a wide range of businesses in Fortune 500 companies. It has built a solid reputation as a pioneer of high-tech solutions for employee motivation and incentive award programs. In 2005, the company won the prestigious Circle of Excellence Award from the Incentive Marketing Association for its "Leveraging Excellence" Program along with Honorable Mention from the Employee Involvement Association for its communications in creating awareness and excitement for employee involvement, and Finalist for the Minnesota Upsize Builder Award for Employee Recognition. Prior to 2005, APIC was selected as one of five "Best Practice" partners and was chosen for further study and a site visit by the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) benchmarking team.

APIC is so confident of its ability to improve efficiency, cost-effectiveness, productivity, customer satisfaction, and profitability that it GUARANTEES clients a 200 percent return on investment when programs are designed in partnership with the client.

What We Do

APIC works with companies to develop programs that communicate, reinforce, measure, and reward key behaviors. These innovative programs are designed to produce lasting performance improvement, and ultimately improve a company’s bottom line.

APIC provides a customized, turnkey platform It designs, implements, and manages cost-effective performance improvement programs that not only focus on a company’s strategies for growth, but deliver results that are directly measurable by ROI criteria.

Each program is supported by promotion, feedback, and award fulfillment designed to generate excitement and produce desired results. A wide range of technical services includes such tools as online industry-leading systems applications, video streaming, administration, and Individual Voice Response unit (for training follow-up, quizzing, and evaluation).

It adds up to a basic four-point program whereby Anderson Performance Improvement is committed to:

In short, APIC provides the programs and management that produce results that are on target, on time, and on budget.

It is not only high-powered, cutting-edge technology that sets APIC apart. The company also is unique within the industry because of its philosophy and approach to performance improvement. For example, Anderson Performance Improvement:

• Creates lasting improvements — by focusing on behaviors and activities. Best Practices get desired results.
  
• Deploys practical programs that work — because it deals with hands-on realities rather than theory. It implements rather than merely consults.
  
• Creates a one-to-one culture — with programs that serve not only the management team, but also line employees at every level.
  
• Provides experience where it counts — with decades of combined experience in the performance improvement and incentive industry.
  
• Promotes diversity — as a female-owned business. APIC is firmly committed to equal opportunities for women and minorities.
  
• Offers security and confidentiality — by maintaining the industry’s highest security standards. APIC's system capabilities for reporting and tracking drive and measure results, including compensation and associated taxes.
  
• Generates results that show up on the bottom line — with clients realizing a Return on Investment from 200 percent to 600 percent.

About the Company

Founded in 1994, Anderson Performance Improvement is dedicated to changing the way companies look at employee performance (as an alternative to throwing money at ineffective merchandise-based incentive programs). In 2005, the company won the prestigious Circle of Excellence Award from the Incentive Marketing Association for its "Leveraging Excellence" Program—an incentive and recognition program for APIC’s own employees.

It has developed a stand-alone performance improvement process that helps companies analyze their current situation, determine attainable goals, and change the behaviors that will lead to lasting performance improvement. APIC then develops a program that communicates, reinforces, measures, and rewards key behaviors. Case in point: The key to increased revenue may not be focusing on more sales, a common incentive program goal. Instead, it may be focusing on increasing sales in the most profitable product lines and driving speed to market.

Recognizing that the most effective reward programs are those that offer a wide variety of options, APIC has created a virtually endless array of possibilities, including:

• Online Catalog: Using earned points that can be accumulated and redeemed for a wide range of select products.
• Print Catalog: Same concept as the online catalog.
• Gift Certificates and Debit Cards.
• Travel Packages and Vouchers: For a group or for individuals.
• Logo Merchandise.
  

Key Executives

Louise Anderson, President

Louise, an industry expert, is much in demand as a speaker on such topics as performance improvement, managing change, accelerating results, creating a dynamic corporate culture, and methods in which companies can reinvent themselves. She also is a frequent facilitator at Fortune 500 executive team planning sessions, where she helps them identify and implement people strategies with the potential to achieve optimum results. In 2005, Louise received Honorable Mention from the Employee Involvement Association for her outstanding executive leadership.

• Additional detail on Louise's experience includes:
  
• Industry Speaker, TV Guest
  
• International Society of Performance Improvement (ISPI)
  
• Women's Expo
  
• Employee Involvement Association (EIA) – Past regional president
  
• Incentive Marketing Association (IMA)
  
• College of St. Catherine’s Center for Sales Innovation
  
• ABC’s Money Matters, Bloomberg Television, and national radio programs
  
• American Bankers' Association
  
• College Curriculum Mentor and panel member for the continuing education program, Leadership for Women in Sales, at the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN.
  
• IMA's Performance Improvement Council Member
  
• Women's Fashion Fabrics Association – Former president

Milliken & Company, Marketing, Sales, and Sales Management with extensive training in Continuous Improvement, Statistical Process Control, 360 Degree Feedback.

Motivation/Performance Improvement with several national organizations including sales leadership with major clients in merger, acquisition, and restructuring with a desire to increase financial performance and customer service during major change.

Howard Anderson, Vice President

Howard is an entrepreneurial pioneer in technology, facility design, and construction. As co-founder and partner of APIC, Howard's expertise is deploying innovation in technology that results in greater ROI and a faster speed to market for APIC's clients.