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Strategy Consulting for George Tippins, Pittsburgh steel magnate
A reader of my blog posts has requested that I select and share a story or three from my days when I was earning my experiences as a strategy consultant. In the early ’80s, I arrived in Pittsburgh and started The Xavier Group Ltd. (1981). I started the company with experiences that centered around the personalities…
advanced manufacturing, analysis, anticipatory design, business, business management, business models, customer-driven strategy, design, engineering, future trends, George W Tippins, human resources, leadership, market strategy, organizational theory, rolling mills, start-ups, steckle mills, steel machinery, steel slabs, steelmaking, strategy, strategy basics, tactics, team collaboration, the future, trends -
Apple’s Steve Jobs would’ve told you “never build your strategy based on low-hanging fruit”
I’ve been a successful strategy consultant since 1981. I’ve worked with Apple. I can tell you Steve Jobs (postmortem) is practically idolized for creating customer-driven strategies for Apple. I can also say, Apple’s Steve Jobs would’ve told you, “never build your strategy based on low-hanging fruit.” First of all, many so-called internal strategists “feel falsely”…
analysis, analytics, anticipatory design, Apple, business, business development, business management, customer-driven strategy, design, engineering, enterprise architecture, forecasts and forecasting, healthcare management, human resources, incubators, leadership, market strategy, medical futures, new products/services, non-profits, organizational theory, positioning, predictions, resource positioning, start-ups, Steve Jobs, strategy, strategy basics, tactics, team collaboration, trends -
X-Celerator Labs™
In 2007, The Xavier Group, Ltd. conceived a concept to be built within the Greater Pittsburgh region for a new collective workspace facility called X-Celerator Labs™. X-Celerator Labs™ was to become a for-profit, do-it-yourself mixed-use laboratory, engineering and fabrication center — an Advanced Rapid Manufacturing Start-up Accelerator. A slideshow overview of X-Celerator Labs™ Accelrator/Incubator (Click on…
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Proper telephone etiquette when calling an organization, a business, or an individual
For most types of organizations, the telephone plays a major part in daily operations. It is for this reason I am becoming agitated with customer service phone representatives, call center callers, salespeople, suppliers, employees, and cold call solicitors and their lack of proper phone etiquette. It seems like no one is training staffers in the…
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Earliest Life Lessons
My dad was an interesting, though busy man. A Mercury-Apollo and Viking-Mars rocket scientist, heat-transfer, nuclear and boiler expert (later nuclear power and cooling systems), hypersonic aircraft researcher, advanced gyrostat design for space attitude control systems, inventor, mechanical/aeronautical engineer, naval aviator, F4U Corsair nightfighter section leader, golfer, distance runner (captain of the cross-country team), farmer,…
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What is a Professional and Why Does Being One Matter?
When I took a Directorship job at Cleveland’s Arthur G. McKee & Company in 1979 (soon to be Davy McKee — International Engineers and Constructors – 14,000 employees in 32 countries worldwide – A Fortune Service 300) at 22, I was told in the first week to come up to the Executive Suite by one…
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What is Strategy?
Napoleon Bonaparte and Strategy Napoleon Bonaparte’s commanders reported, that Napoleon was a genius of war strategy who had a unique ability to size up a situation with a “glance,” . Now you might think hearing that, like so many current organizational strategists and businesspeople (who rose to high-places as a result of the 20th Century…
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Positioning of Resources is key to Strategy
NOTE: This was originally published as an article post on LinkedIn titled, “On Strategy: Positioning of Resources” by Frank Sowa on 2016/01/07 On Strategy: Positioning of Resources The most effective military generals throughout history were successful because they knew how to make the most optimal use of the resources they had available to them, in…