Best Managers on the Net®
is a Business Internet Consulting and Services Provider
Best Managers
is dedicated to helping you on your road to continuing business growth and
success through Internet consulting and services support. We'll help you reach for the top! We focus on the needs of:
Owners, CEOs, executives, profit center
managers. Your focus should be on the long term success of
your organization. Regardless your size, you need a business services
support that works for you -- and we can help. Our mission is to make
your job easier by providing you solutions to those problems which keep
you awake at night!
Heads of Training and HR Departments.
You are the CEO's surrogate for ensuring the business
training needs of the entire organization are met. Regardless the size
of your organization, we can help you deliver measurable results at
an affordable cost. Our services will free up your time to manage your
entire business training program, and attend to all those other
responsibilities too!
Managers and supervisors wishing to improve
themselves. For the rest of your professional career on
are on a journey improvement of yourself and your direct reports. We
have designed our managers self development program and other business
services to help you along the way.
Other entrepreneurs and start-ups in general.
We understand that your resources, both in time and business skills -- are limited.
Let us help by providing resources that will accelerate your
journey to destination success. Along the way we will be there
when you need help to step up to that next level of growth and profitability.
No company is too small -- or too large -- for our help.
ABOUT OUR FOUNDER
Richard Dowell,
President, Best Managers on the Net®
Richard's primary business focus is helping companies
and organizations use the Internet to
improve results and grow local and global business.
He is a Visiting Professor of Information Technology at
the Citadel School of Business, one of the top 20 public business
schools in the United States.
His
company specializes in using online and online-assisted
facilitation to develop and maintain
management and business skills. He believes that
online learning technologies
should support and enhance the role of managers and trainers in achieving an
appropriate balance among the traditional, self-paced, just-in-time
and any-time/any-place learning environments.
His father was a 43 year career Army officer and he a 1956 graduate of West Point (classmate of Norm
Schwarzkopf) and was commissioned in the Air Force. During his
military career he was a doctoral candidate at the
American and Stanford Universities, was graduated from the National Defense University,
received training in information technology management at the MIT Sloan School of
Management and was certified by the Air Force in Advanced Systems Acquisition
Management.
He was a faculty member at the United States Air
Force Academy and the American University. During his three combat tours in Southeast
Asia as a fighter and bomber pilot he was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Air Medals, and the Bronze
Star.
Richard's private sector career includes
technology management, government contracting, executive experience, technology company entrepreurship, management training and business
consulting. He has held corporate responsibilities from
Staff Member
through Chairman, Board of Directors.
Professional experience
Since 1991 Richard has
concentrated on creating new jobs by promoting entrepreneurial business growth and other economic
development activities. In March 1993, he assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer
of the Software Valley Corporation, a state-wide organization created to promote
community andeconomic development in West Virginia. He was instrumental in
deploying the National Guard's
Distance Learning Training (DLN) demonstration project, a national
system of shared-usedcommunity information centers supporting the creation of high value
jobs, business growth and economic development. In July, 1997 he founded Technology Business Services, Inc., a
company dedicated to fostering
business growth using the Internet.
His other technology experience includes serving as a
corporate CIO, managing a division developing advanced business software
applications, directing a major information technology effort supporting the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, contributing to developing a
strategic planning system for the $6 billion IRS Tax System modernization
effort, supporting the FAA modernization of the US airways
system and developing
recommendations for modernizing the World Wide Military Command and Control System.
Significant business milestones
November
1997-2002: Conducted management training programs to 44 companies
organizations in South Carolina as an authorized representative of Crestcom
International, Ltd, a worldwide leader in facilitated management training.
Clients included the Post and Courier newspaper, Shakespeare
Monofiliament Division and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR).
March 2000: Established
Best Managers on the Net*Division, developed and opened a www.BestManagers.Net
learning portal, a website managed through a content management system.
February 2003:
Partnered with DIAPLAN Designs, Inc., a leader in the
distribution, administration and facilitation of online leadership and management
development programs.
February-June 2003: Invited to
participate as member of Navy League of United States Information Technology
Committee (ITC) charged with the responsibility to develop a uniform design
for Navy League Councils worldwide. Identified as one of candidate
application service providers from which Navy League Councils may choose for
website development and support of local Chapter activities. In June, 2003
announced to be one of four companies to provide internet and web
applications services to Navy League Councils, worldwide.
Most recently he was selected by Site
Build It! to be a certified
Site Sell Education
Instructor. In the Fall he will be offering the course "Building a Successful
Business Using the Internet" as an elective in the Citadel MBA program.
Representative client sites (with any
special features highlighted) include:
www.Worldwide-Trading-Company.com (goal was to get several serious
inquiries per month -- goal achieved. Client now licensed to do business in
China -- watch for new site which will be bilingual -- English/Chinese)
www.Beauty-and-the-Bath.com
Assisted in the use of html editor (Dreamweaver) to build SBI! site. Ranked
by Alexa in top 100,000 sites worldwide within 90 days!
January 2007: Visiting Professor, Citadel School of
Business Administration, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Information
Technology.
*Trademark awarded
March 2003
Professional memberships, activities
Richard is the webmaster for a
number of Navy League of the United States websites, Crestcom International,
Ltd. franchisee websites and the Charleston Contractors Association. He
accepted the responsibility to evolve and improve the information technology
operations for the Association of Corporate Contributions Professionls. He has authored a number of articles and publications.
He is a past Foundation Committee Chair* of the Charleston Rotary Club (a
charter member of the Paul
Harris Society and a Bequest Society member). He is a board member
of the Free
Enterprise Foundation. He is listed in Who's
Who in America.
"During his ANSER years, Mr. Dowell demonstrated that
he was a master of many skills. He was a successful leader, recruiter, motivator,
communicator and manager."
John Fabian, former Astronaut and President/CEO of ANSER Inc.
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"I am pleased to commend Mr. Richard P. Dowell's achievements of
behalf of West Virginia's technology initiative . . . The results of Mr. Dowell's efforts
have been most impressive."
Cecil Underwood, Governor, State of West Virginia
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"Mr. Dowell is one of the most gifted executives with
whom I have worked."
Thomas Pressman, Chairman of the Board, Software Valley Corporation
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Richard Dowell,
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