J Blair, Consulting

Background

Executive and consulting experience in business planning, product planning, management development, engineering, quality assurance, production, marketing, MIS; University trustee and corporate board member.

Industry experience with Honeywell and General Electric includes positions as Director of Business Planning, Director of Quality Assurance, Director of Information Resource Management, Development Programs Manager, Product Planning Manager and Design Engineering Manager.

Since 1984, John has provided management counsel to individuals and organizations in the areas of strategic planning, product planning, organizational diagnosis, management development and strategies for leveraging business value through technology.  His clients include Fortune 500, public sector and small, high-growth companies.  Much of his work involves the development of linkages between general management and line organizations implementing high technology systems and services.  He leads seminars for the American Management Association and Loftin/Blair Seminars.  He was the editor of  "Developing the World Class Information Systems Organization" series, published by QED Information Sciences in 1988-1990.  In 1994 John, with Ralph Loftin, published "Boxes and Lines," a book describing a method for performing business process redesign developed in the course of their consulting practice.

In 1999 John joined Integrated Information Systems, an IT professional services firm, as Chief Operating Officer and served in that role for two years.  IIS grew fourfold in this period, created an international presence and raised nearly $100,000,000 through an IPO and related financing in early 2000.  In 2001 John returned to freelance consulting.

A Purdue engineer, John has done graduate work at Syracuse University, Florida Institute of Technology and Arizona State University in both Engineering and Business Administration.  He completed his MAOM degree in 2001 from the University of Phoenix.

John helped develop an MBA option in Information Systems at Western International University in the early 1980's, and  served on the board of that University until 2000.  In 2000 he was appointed to the board of The Apollo Group (parent of the University of Phoenix and Western International University) and served as Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Compensation Committee until 2006, when he returned to the WIU Board.  In 2001 he was appointed to the board of Integrated Information Systems and served until 2004.  He is active in several volunteer organizations working to improve the economic, social and cultural vitality of central Arizona. 

Clients

American Express

American Management Association

Arizona Public Service

American Society of Association Executives

ATC-Phoenix

AT&T

Audits and Surveys

BellSouth Enterprises

Brightwood Enterprises

City Of Pasadena

City Of Phoenix

Criterion Catalyst

Enterprise Technology Services

GenCorp

General Foods

Greyhound

Home Owners Warranty

Honeywell

Integrated Information Systems

ILC Data Device Corporation

I-Ology

Los Angeles World Airports

Maricopa County (Arizona)

Metropolitan Airports  (Minneapolis)

Microsoft

Midwest Energy

Northern States Power

Pharmaceutical Card Systems

Quadras Corporation

Raintree Healthcare

Resort Condominiums International

Royal Bank (Trinidad/Tobago)

Sandia National Laboratories

San Diego Gas And Electric

Security Title Agency

SkyMall

Star Tribune

State Of Arkansas

State Of Minnesota

State Of New Hampshire

State Of New York

The Apollo Group

US West

Wampler Foods

Washington Public Power Supply

Western International University

Westinghouse

Wing Industries