Business Quest

Welcome to everyday adventures in my business life, including thoughts and feelings about a world within which all things are connected. This QUEST is a JOURNEY to share knowledge, a JUNKET to share enjoyment, and often times simply an OUTING among old friends and new acquaintances.

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Location: Hockessin, Delaware, United States

To Myers-Briggs I'm an INTJ on the cusp of an E. A war-orphan, I was raised an only child by my mother. Born into a family of engineers and inventors, I naturally gravitated to engineering; model railroading at age 5. By the time I left high school the railroad was well automated (back when mechanical relays and vacuum tubes prevailed.) Home was Gary, Indiana and while attending Purdue University I majored in Electrical Engineering, worked part-time and summers as a motor inspector at the Inland Steel 80" Hot Strip, where I found the air conditioning requirement of early automation equipment to be personally beneficial. I joined the DuPont Corporation as a Design Engineer and moved to Waynesboro, VA. (where in 1969 I automated the 1929 Acetate Chemical process using a Digital Equipment PDP 8E computer supervising five PDP14 industrial controllers -- the computer was programmed using a Teletype machine and paper tape!) I also had the pleasure of an assignment in Londonderry NI in 1973 followed by a move to Charleston, SC in 1976 to construct a fully automated polyester fiber facility (complete with industrial robots). But enough about me...

Friday, September 30, 2005

Project Discussion Feedback

Now that I've revealed some inner-most secrets of myself and our company, I'm requesting your critique of my performance as comment to this post.

a) What did you enjoy that should be repeated?
b) What didn’t work for you that should be avoided?
c) What did you like best?
d) What did you like least?
e) Please critique the following on a scale of 1 to 5 [5 being outstanding, 1 being abysmal]
- Presentation:
- Content:
- Value:
- Overall:
Thank you for helping me improve future performances.
George Higgins
CEO

posted by George | 2:36 PM | 1 comments

Sunday, September 11, 2005

Project Discussion "Feedforward"

I've taken on the challenge to reveal the inner-most secrets of myself and our company to you during the Project Discussion scheduled for September 27th. I'd like to have some fun with that... I'd like you to imagine that the class has just completed on that fateful Tuesday, and as you leave the room you excitedly say to the person next to you, "Wow, that was GREAT!" Just imagine if you were so moved to have said those words, WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED DURING THE PAST 50 MINUTES IN THAT CLASSROOM? Please share your thoughts and feelings and vision of what had taken place...

posted by George | 9:53 PM | 3 comments

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Here I am - Gary, Indiana, February, 1944


Dad, George, Mom

posted by George | 3:16 PM | 1 comments

Friday, September 09, 2005

A Warm Hello

This blog has been created especially for BUAD477, Information Technology Applications in Marketing at the University of Delaware. I am the CEO of American SecuriComm, the client company that will be participating with you as your class project. This site will serve as my opportunity to share my questions and thoughts with you and for you to share your questions and thoughts in return. Let's begin our journey.

posted by George | 5:22 PM | 0 comments