One way we apply this combination very effectively with high-tech clients is to help the executives, who are often former engineers like Hal, to not rely too heavily on their clever inventions to build a business. People build businesses. The former may provide a temporal competitive advantage. The latter can provide a permanent competitive advantage.

A Real Global Perspective

The word "real" was carefully chosen. To us, it means people outside our home country believe we have a global perspective! It just doesn't matter that your friends and neighbors in your home country believe you have a global perspective. They are not going to buy your products and services in another country!

We believe a person cannot have a global perspective without having lived in a foreign country. Especially in the United States, there is a plethora of "international experts" who have never lived outside the United States.

We have lived for six years in The Netherlands and in Germany. We have had our children in the international schools in those countries. We know how few expatriates there are in the communities where we lived. We have called the Amsterdam and Munich airports our home airports. We have operated companies in Germany, the UK and France. We have traveled extensively in all of the countries of Europe and many other industrialized countries around the world.

We have a Real Global Perspective to offer to businesses seeking consulting services.