Craig Schiefelbein, CEO/owner of Wisconsin-headquartered Paragon Development Systems, Inc. (PDS) exemplifies strategic leadership. Is it any wonder then that his Information Technology Solutions (IT) company has grown in twenty-two of the last twenty-four years and strategically partners with healthcare IT departments across the Midwest? Schiefelbein’s strategic leadership rests first and foremost in his willingness to change his company’s business model. “We’ve changed our business model seven times. Every time I’d think we had it all figured out only to discover we’d be out of business if we didn’t change. The challenge is in running the business while also rerouting it, and doing it before the changes become mandatory.” PDS started humbly in 1986 as the computer component wholesaler, Memory and More. Today PDS architects, supplies, implements and manages entire IT hardware infrastructures. Its business model involves aligning PDS’s unique blend of leadership, services,…