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Project Review Services
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Dave Baldwin can help bring your writing, documentation, content development, or process design and improvement project up to the professional level your organization needs and your customers demand.
Contact Dave to find out how he can help you make your project work.
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Site updated June 20, 2009
Maximizing Today...Anticipating Tomorrow
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Delivering the Know-How for Success
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Expert Ideas. Dave Baldwin Consulting provides the methods and guidance to deliver practical, sustainable solutions to complex problems in innovative ways.
Effective Tools. Using the skills of research, analysis, process design, information development and effective communication, Dave Baldwin Consulting creates and delivers complete, knowledge based solutions to provide maximum impact on performance.
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Future The New Fork In The Road
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In 2009, the world is faced with an overwhelmingly complex array of dire challenges.
Now may be our last chance to get it right. Taking the path that will begin to reverse our seemingly irreversible plunge off the cliff will take dedication to a level of global, national, institutional, and personal change that we can yet barely comprehend.
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Proven Techniques. By tapping the power of current knowledge,
tools and techniques, Dave Baldwin creates strategies, products and
services that help bridge the gap between client know-how and the
constantly shifting needs of the marketplace.
Trusted Methodology. Using a time-tested development method that
yields consistent, high-quality results, Dave creates knowledge
based solutions tailored to align with the objectives of his clients.
Tools 5W1H Basic Approach May Be Most Reliable
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One of the most universally used tools for information organization and analysis is the 5W1H framework.
This approach uses six basic questions to gather information about nearly any subject: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. Sometimes a second "H" is used: How Much.
This method is used across a range of professions from process analysts to quality engineers to journalists to understand virtually any problem or issue.
Even better, the same method can be used to organize the writing of reports, articles, white papers, and even whole books.
Often first introduced to high schools students, the 5W1H framework can be applied at any level of granularity to gather and analyze information from the simplest to the most complex.
Attributed to a Rudyard Kipling poem, 5W1H is the place to start and may be enough to take you to the end.
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Creating Real Solutions to Complex Problems
Knowledge, Potential & Leadership
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Leadership Gap. Given the leadership vacuum across industries and institutions today, organizations must acknowledge that their long-standing preference for technology over human talent has not provided the returns in productivity and profit that were expected.
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White Papers
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The most intelligent way to promote your product or service. Sell your value proposition to your audience with respect and reason.
Dave Baldwin designs and writes white papers that appeal to the clientele you want to do business with.
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Most Valuable Asset. Organizations must understand that
intellectual capital, residing both in their information systems and in
their employees, represents their most valuable asset. But
organizations also must realize that information captured in systems
is static and neutral.
It takes human beings to make sense of information by providing
context. People must make use of information by applying it to
accomplish organizational goals and objectives, thereby moving the
organization forward. This is how knowledge is created.
Most Productive Work Places. Human beings are most productive
when they are involved in work environments that foster
commitment, trust and innovation. These environments provide
workers with the means to make the most of their potential in terms
of developed skills, knowledge and productivity.
The way to the realization of potential is through engaging in the
creative process as applied to completing a task, solving a problem,
or accomplishing a goal. The creative process allows people to
become fully engaged in what they are doing and in the process
reinforce and further develop their skills. This results in increased
productivity for the organization.
Most Effective Leadership. Organizations need to foster and nurture
natural leadership without regard to official position or primary job
responsibilities. Natural leaders accomplish work by themselves
engaging in the creative process and by encouraging and facilitating
the realization of potential in fellow employees whether there is any
supervisory responsibility or not.
It is this style of leadership that most effectively contributes to
organizational success while fully nurturing the realization of
employee potential to the mutual benefit of the organization and its
full complement of human talent.


Dave Baldwin is a
business and systems
analyst, strategist,
process designer,
information developer,
communication and
change consultant,
project manager and
futurist.
Dave has broad experience developing
a wide range of information products
and business processes for the
telecommunications, manufacturing,
software, state and federal government,
and financial services industry sectors.
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