Automation Insights & Coaching
Increase Your Business Results…
As a knowledgeable industrial control & automation industry professional with deep experience I bring new perspectives and insights to your organization challenging assumptions, stimulating thinking, and providing new perspectives resulting in improved performance and profits.
Companies regularly use outside experts to improve their results.
My wide range of experience in real-time controls & automation includes marketing, sales, product management, business analysis, hardware design, systems design, software design, and technology can contribute to improving the performance of your business.
You can leverage my background of over 30 years in the automation industry to identify opportunities and profit. My experience includes technology development and business experience ranging from corporate experience, co-founder & president of a start-up company and as an industry consultant.
“I mean it as the ability to see the world as it is, not as you want it to be.” Peter Drucker
My goal is to help you generate ideas, strategies, and action plans to increase performance.
- Provide insights on new technologies.
- Develop analysis of business issues & formulate questions that need to be answered.
- Develop analysis based on my experience, knowhow, & market research where necessary.
- Provide recommendations & rationale for recommendations.
Business coaching can be a little as a few hours a month depending on your needs.
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These are some recommendations about my work that are also on LinkedIn:
Bill worked with me to help a client exploring diversification strategies to understand the market for automation systems. He’s a compelling expert in that field whose knowledge is broad and current. He made a very positive impression on the client both for the efficiency of his delivery as well as his personable style. I’m very pleased to recommend him to others. Steven Grundman, A business strategist and public policy analyst to the aerospace and defense sector.
I’ve known Bill for many years and always enjoyed his insight and into the Automation Industry and the economy as a whole. Bill has always been able to distill many moving parts into a succinct and clear message that folks at many levels in our industry can understand and apply. His ability to identify trends early has helped me many times in my career in developing strategies to pursue new markets. Thanks Bill!! Dean Ford, CAP, PE Co-Founder, Managing Principal Engineer at Luminary Automation and Engineering, LLC
I have worked with Bill as an industry analyst for almost 10 years. He has deep subject matter knowledge of the industrial manufacturing and automation industries. Most valuable is Bill’s ability to quickly assess the landscape of technologies and vendors and then quickly get to the most important aspects to be considered. He has a great strategic outlook and is a must have advisor on many subjects. I highly recommend Bill. Steven Garbrecht, VP of Product Marketing
I have had the opportunity to work with Bill for a number of years and have been exceptionally impressed with his technical expertise, professionalism and business-savvy which is a significant benefit to the whole industrial community. Bill has a no-nonsense mentality that allows him to size up a situation and arrive at the best solution for a given instance. With his extensive experience in Industrial Automation and Building Automation, Bill is highly relied on for his great leadership and visionary instinct. Mitsubishi Electric, Global Director of Industry Standards
Regarding my 2021 Annual Trends Report, Another set of really insightful predictions from Bill Lydon” Christine Boles VP, Internet of Things Group, General Manager, Industrial Solutions Division at Intel Corporation