P3 – Different Consulting for a Different Industry

Dean Sigler Sustainable Aviation Leave a Comment

P3 is a new and different type of consulting service for a new and different kind of industry – electric aviation.  Consulting businesses usually manage to help others manage fairly conventional and well-traveled projects, limiting their practice to advising on how to meet budget and project timelines.  These are valuable insights that can help technical gurus overcome business issues, or management teams understand new technology. But what happens when a whole industry is exploring new paradigms, shaping new world views and delving into areas that did not exist a short time before?  One consulting firm that did not exist before 1996 is making inroads into that unexplored territory.  A spin-off from RWTH University in Aachen, Germany, P3 started with a quality management project at Daimler.  In quick order, the founder expanded the business into a global enterprise with over 3,000 consultants, engineers and entrepreneurs and more than 30 subsidiaries and locations, including Dallas, Detroit, greater New York, Greenville, Los Angeles …