Thomas J. Buckholtz:
CLASS OF 1963
Palos Verdes High SchoolClass of 1963
Palos verdes estates, CA
Thomas J.'s Story
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Pivotal Achievements >
Dr. Thomas J. Buckholtz made vital contributions to the following environmental and societal achievements.
* Preserve 7 kilometers (4.5 miles) of Pacific Ocean coastline in California, USA.
He proposed the concept for the Palos Verdes Estates Shoreline Preserve.
* Pioneer nationwide grassroots endeavors by an American national political party.
He proposed concepts that Republican National Committee implemented in 2001 as a ¿Team Leader Program¿ and ¿Grassroots Division.¿
* Establish a Rotary International worldwide service program.
He proposed the concept for the Donations-In-Kind Information Network, a program based on people¿s announcing goods that were available for use.
He made key contributions to the following business, technology, and governmental innovations.
* Produce cost savings equal to 1.5 percent of corporate revenue.
He led a company-wide innovation program (Pacific Gas and Electric Company) that increased productivity, teamwork, and learning and included the company¿s first use of various types of information technology.
* Pioneer 3 information technologies.
He led the team that built the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory¿s first multi-participant computer simulation and game. He had leadership roles in the development (by Teknekron) of the world¿s first automated document library and of an early ¿PDA - personal digital assistant¿ (the Panasonic Hand-Held Computer).
* Develop 3 leading-edge information systems.
He led the project that produced a system for managing the Contra Costa County (California) Criminalistics Laboratory¿s case load and had major roles in developing systems for screening newborns for genetic diseases (State of California) and for adjudicating workers compensation claims (State of Washington).
* Establish 3 information-technology marketplace business practices.
He pioneered and established the ¿enterprise software license¿ or ¿corporate license¿ (while at Pacific Gas and Electric) and proposed the concepts for ¿GWAC - the Government-Wide Acquisition Contract¿ and ¿Indefinite Delivery - Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Contract¿ (while with the General Services Administration).
* Improve governmental service (from all levels of government) for the American public.
He led the team (part of the General Services Administration, plus federal chief information officers) that catalyzed an early 1990¿s grassroots coalition of private-sector, news-media, academic, and government employees and organizations and built momentum toward ¿reinventing gove...Expand for more
rnment,¿ ¿e-government,¿ and ¿simplified permitting¿ for construction permits.
Current Professional Focus >
Tom Buckholtz is a business advisor, innovation consultant, executive coach, seminar provider, author, and speaker. He helps enterprises and individuals define and achieve business strategies, improve profitability and productivity, catalyze innovation, develop and market products and services, augment corporate culture, and work effectively and efficiently.
He is a co-founder of SSV Network, Inc., a Silicon Valley based company that strives to facilitate innovation by helping entrepreneurs, inventors, and other innovators; investors; mentors: and service providers better find each other, learn from each other, and work together.
Tom anticipates that his Direct Outcomes systems-thinking techniques will catalyze widespread enhancement in business and personal effectiveness. His books support people¿s benefiting from the techniques. People use Innovative Incisively: Gain Impact. Save Time. to learn and teach Direct Outcomes techniques. This book suggests dozens of applications. Information Proficiency: Your Key to Information Age (English, Chinese, and Korean editions) provides people a roadmap for their Information Age opportunities. A former Executive Director for Japan of the International Monetary Fund states, ¿With the publication of Tom Buckholtz¿s book, we have moved into a New Information Age.¿
Dr. Buckholtz has presented Direct Outcomes programs face-to-face in 5 countries ¿ China, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and the United States. He teaches Leadership and Innovation for the University of California, Santa Cruz, graduate-level certificate program in Knowledge Services and Enterprise Management. He provided an 8-session course, Catalyzing an Information Proficient Society, via the World Bank¿s Global Development Learning Network (videoconferencing) for participants in Afghanistan, Ghana, and Sri Lanka. He included Direct Outcomes segments in an innovation program for leaders of a PetroChina business unit, in a discussion with leaders of Beijing government businesses regarding how the American federal government catalyzes innovation, and in Philosophy and Principles of Public Administration programs for more than a dozen groups of visiting provincial and local government officials from China.
Previous Professional Work (1 example) >
As a Commissioner in the United States General Services Administration, Tom led a $1 billion telecommunications and systems-integration business unit, served as co-chief information officer for the federal government¿s Executive Branch and as GSA¿s CIO, and oversaw $20 billion per year of computing and telecommunications procurement.
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