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Five to Thrive - Strategy provides context. What is yours?
- Change is continuous. Can your strategy cope?
- You are customer driven. Does this make you a leader?
- Like you, your rivals claim to be "the best." How are you unique?
- "The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained." - David Bohm (physicist)
Five to thrive... because just surviving is not a strategy Is your company doing all it can to thrive, or are you merely hoping to survive? Is your goal to hunker down and wait out the storm, or do you want to create first-mover advantage in your current markets as you position your company for the economic recovery? And what about markets that you have never considered because you do not see a connection to your products and services, even though a fresh look may identify new opportunities? Will you explore them now and develop a strategy to capture them, or will you ignore and lose them? To help you thrive, I provide: - Market Visioning (Please click here for a review)
- IT-Business Synergy
- Business Development
- Strategic Communications
Often, the most effective first step is for me to lead a wide-ranging, free-wheeling, everything-is-on-the-table discussion with your company's executive officers. An outsider brings perception and thinking that is not trapped within the experiences (especially the successes) and processes of your organization. Without this, it is virtually impossible to create the radical transformation required for creating uniqueness and leaping ahead. It is the only way to escape the "this is how we do it here" attitude that leads to stagnation. In other words, while what you don't know can hurt you, what you do know can kill you! This truism was best stated by these eminent thinkers: - "Familiarity brings complacency." - David Halberstam in his book, The Reckoning
- "In order to gain knowledge, add something every day. To gain wisdom, get rid of something every day." - Lau-Tsu, founder of Taoism
- "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C. Clarke
- "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few. - Zen master Suziki Roshi (Keep this in mind the next time you are listening to an "expert")
Why should you hire me? Consider these skills, honed by 25+ years of general business, IT, and NewSpace leadership: - Bilingual - I speak Engineering/Tech and Business
- Strategic vision balanced with tactical thinking
- Detailed analysis blended with results-oriented imagination
- Building and nurturing executive relationships and project teams
- Superlative communication skills (written and spoken)
Receive value from my IT experience, read my clients' Endorsements, and benefit from my NewSpace engagements: - Business model recommendations for new product development at Caterpillar Corp.
- Market penetration strategy for Presence Displays VOF
- Improved product marketing, website design, and advertising strategy for launch of new software division at SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc.
- Customer segmentation and competition analysis for Starport Cafe
- Executive Director at Space Frontier Foundation (three-year contract, full-time position)
- Initiated the North Carolina Aero/Space Economy Project to educate political, business, and economic development leaders about the emerging entrepreneurial space industry and its potential contribution to the state's economic development. Deliverables included:
- Lead author of "The Aero/Space Economy in North Carolina: A Preliminary Assessment of Current Performance and Future Prospects"
- Co-facilitated a one-day workshop for industry, government, and university sectors to develop state-wide aerospace economic intelligence
- See my unique concept for defining the Aero/Space Economy, and the relationships between and transition from a narrow industry to a broad cluster to an all-encompassing space economy
- Visited four regional Economic Development Partnerships to provide education about the emerging entrepreneurial space industry (NewSpace)
- Member of NC Aerospace Steering Committee (see presentation, including my review of commercial space activity across the US beginning with slide 13)
- Contributor to "North Carolina's Strategic Plan for Aerospace Workforce Development 2008 - 2012"
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