Products, Processes, People and Technology

Consulting in Information Management and Strategy

David A. Borgelt is a business consulting practice focused on assisting companies to better understand the technology needed to build better processes, products and services and then helping them to best use that technology to their benefit and that of their customers.

These clients vary considerably, as do their needs, but the goal is to better understand the problem which needs to be solved both in technical and market terms, the tools available for creating the needed solution, and building the teams, processes and technology base to define, design and create the needed solutions.

Some typical projects will help explain the scope of this practice and the solutions provided.

Philosophy

The philosophy behind this consulting is somewhat contrary to much of the accepted wisdom in the industry. The core issues are a set of concepts called Design for Change.

The idea that any product, service or process can be perfectly (or even approximately perfectly) designed once and for all is flawed in its conception and bound to fail. Marketing and Engineering must both be involved in an intimate and fundamental way from the first conception of any technology based product, process or service. Interdependence, adaptability and flexibility are key. This is true, and essential, in both the organizations involved and the solutions produced.

For more background, see the more detailed philosophy section.

Personal info

Background information can be found here.

If you are looking for genealogy information on Borgelts, information for my branch of the family can be found here. This site was built by one of my father's cousins on his mother's side, Ruth Busdieker. My thanks to her.