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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”…
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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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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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Hi! I’m Frank X. Sowa, Pittsburgh Strategy Consultant since 1981. Welcome to my new Blog!
This new blog is entitled, “PGH Strategy Consultant” because I intend to use it, to share with you some of the insights I’ve obtained since I started my strategy consulting work, via the founding and operating “The Xavier Group, Ltd.” here in Pittsburgh (PGH) in 1981. The Xavier Group has existed for 36 years, founded…
advanced manufacturing, analysis, analytics, anticipatory design, business, business development, business management, business models, design, engineering, enterprise architecture, forecasts and forecasting, future tech, future trends, human resources, leadership, market strategy, new products/services, non-profits, organizational theory, positioning, predictions, product/service lifecycles, start-ups, strategy, strategy basics, team collaboration, the future, timelines, trends
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