Bill Bigler

Founder and CEO, Bill Bigler Associates

Bill Bigler is currently founder and CEO of Bill Bigler Associates (BBA www.billbigler.com), a firm to assist business units in Fortune 500 corporations, private equity managing directors and large mid-sized for-profit firms in their strategic management to drive increases in the market value. Prior to founding BBA in 2016, Bill was a tenured Associate Professor of Strategy and the MBA Program Director in the College of Business at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Louisiana. He returned to full time academia in January 2008 after 25 years in strategy consulting to accomplish his next set of objectives of continuing as thought leader and contributor to research and teaching around his passion of robust strategy formulation, world class strategy execution, innovation, profitable growth, and risk management with their impacts on firm valuation. He was the 2012-2013 President of the Board of the Association for Strategic Planning, one of the leading professional societies in strategy. He also was the Founder and Managing Director of www.strategybest.com, a pro-bono website with comprehensive knowledge of the field of strategic management and a variety of tools and frameworks he has developed over the last thirty years that clients have found valuable. The website has been very useful for firms who do not have a formal strategic planning department. With the formation of Bill Bigler Associates, the website is now open only for private viewing.<br /> <br /> He has thirty years of Strategy and Organizational Effectiveness consulting experience working in numerous and diverse industries such as light bulb manufacturing, digital imaging, medical imaging, industrial gas, consumer and industrial products, home improvement products manufacturing, retail, financial services, defense components manufacturing, commercial construction and real estate development and education, to name a representative sample.<br /> <br /> Bill was a Director in the Strategic Change practice of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and led the practice in the Southwest Region. Bill was a principal in the Strategy arm of the Hay Group, President and founder of his own strategy boutique for five years – Southwest Management Consultants, principal in Ernst and Young’s Business Change Implementation practice and co-director of the Strategy practice for Thomas Group, an operations excellence consulting firm, before joining PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Before his assignment at LSUS, Bill was a consultant in process innovation for the Road Home project in Louisiana.<br /> <br /> Virtually all of Bill’s assignments have been to partner with CEOs and their direct reports in the area of business unit strategy formulation and implementation and the interactions of the functional/process areas of marketing, sales, fulfillment, operations, customer service and R&amp;D/new product development. These assignments have helped to affect planned gains in sales growth, profit increases, capital avoidance, agility and response times and risk reduction. Bill was a sought after facilitator when clients needed to conduct periodic key “strategy summit” meetings of key top executives and board of directors members. Bill served on the Board of Directors for Nitro Security, Inc. of Idaho Falls, Idaho in the 2003-2005 time frame. MacAfee acquired Nitro in 2011.<br /> <br /> Bill’s first book entitled The New Science of Strategy Execution: How Established Firms Become Fast, Sleek Wealth Creators was published in January 2004 by Praeger. Bill is working on his second book tentatively titled The Business Performance Engine, inspired by his experience on the board of Nitro Security