Services
Engagements are scoped to client size, complexity, and sensitivity—from focused advisory work to training, tool adoption, and multi-session planning.
The following areas are often combined in practice; FPBS helps clients prioritize what to tackle first.
Strategy and organizational identity
For leaders setting direction or reframing the enterprise
Business and corporate strategy; clarity on organization, business model, innovation, and technology identity; innovation strategy; corporate entrepreneurship.
Technology commercialization and product development
For teams moving ideas toward market or fielded capability
Commercialization pathways; product development; growing the business; innovation and design for competitive advantage. A frequent first question is who will adopt the offering and who will fund its development—answered across industries, government organizations, and venture capital or private equity when the case requires it.
Adoption and funding-source assessment
For inventors, ventures, and program teams who need a ranked field of buyers and funders—not a generic market slide
Locate and assess technology adoption and funding sources: companies across multiple industries; government organizations with mission or program interest; and venture capital or private equity firms whose thesis and vehicles may fit. Work can be advisory or supported by the firm’s agentic applications (industry, government, and investor canvassing with sourced reports). CVD graphene case material is on the Agentic-AI & LLM page.
Portfolio management and decision support
For portfolios of programs, technologies, or investments under uncertainty
Structured portfolio methods; decision-support frameworks; practical tools to track maturity, risk, dependencies, and priorities across many lines of effort.
AI engineering and intelligent decision support
For teams ready to pair domain rigor with modern AI—only where it clearly fits the engagement
FPBS is initializing AI engineering as a value-added layer: LLM-based and retrieval-grounded assistants tuned to curated knowledge; agent-style and workflow automation to populate, refresh, and operate decision-support tools; and production-oriented patterns for deploying models responsibly alongside existing program and portfolio practice. Six working applications—industry, government, and venture capital / private equity adoption and funding assessments—are described with reports on the Agentic-AI & LLM page. Scope, data handling, and governance are matched to each client’s environment. The principal’s current focus, skills, certifications, and applied case descriptions appear on steven-griggs.com under Current Focus, AI + Business Transformation, and related sections—consulting relationships remain with First Place Business Solutions.
Program management and systems engineering
For large-scale technology development and integration
Program planning and execution; systems engineering perspectives that tie roadmaps, suppliers, and stakeholders to deliverables.
Business development and captures
For organizations competing for funded work
Business development; presentations, proposals, and business plans structured to win; support for multidisciplinary capture teams. Assessment of likely adopters and funding sources—industry, government, or investors—can precede capture so pursuit lists are evidence-based.
Entrepreneurship, ventures, and operations
For new ventures and entrepreneurial units inside larger firms
Entrepreneurship and venture management; entrepreneurial operations; alignment between opportunity, capital, and execution—including who may adopt the offering and which industry, government, or investor sources may fund the next stage.
Independent reviews and mentoring
For objective assessment or leadership development
Independent reviews of strategy and innovation implementation; mentoring on strategy, business development, entering new industries, growth, resource development, staffing for goals, risk mitigation, and developing briefings and proposals.