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.
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. 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.
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.
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.