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The Power of 8™

 

  • Faster and smarter generation of ideas for process improvement initiatives.

  • Build better strategies for the new, new economy.

  • Implement more action among both Boomers and Gen X'ers.

  • Achieve greater performance and results in rapidly changing and unforgiving markets.

The Power of 8™ is a new, multimedia strategy development tool kit to help you achieve exponential performance improvement. Performance improvement of your project teams, product development groups, service lines and entire organizations.

The Tool Kit Described

The Power of 8™
Tools to strengthen the peak performance enhancement of new economy enterprises.

Doing the right things, very very well, all the time with every stakeholder.

Why are new tools needed?
It’s a new age, a new economy. Boomers and Gen X'ers. Unforgiving markets. Change at warp speed. New strategies are demanded. New rules of engagement are needed. A drive for actual implementation, not just attractive plans and brochures!

The Power of 8™ organizes 8 “Tool Sets” for each of the 8 mission critical components for your enterprise wide, performance enhancement processes. There are 34 templates used within these 8 tool sets. Apply the tools at a project, service line, product, department or enterprise level. They can be used by public or private sector organizations. Large or small. Strong or weak.

The 8 tool sets are organized around the 4 classic questions that define the essence of the strategy development process:

Key Questions
Strategy
Component
The Power of 8™ Tools
Where are we today?
Situation
Analysis

1. Octagonal Idea Engine

2. 333 Innovations Plunge

Where should we be going?
Goal
Formulation

3. 8 Faceted Aikido Actions ORT

4. The Creativity Gym

How shall we get there?
Resource
Mobilization

5. Troika 8

6. 888 Action Plans

Are we getting there?
Performance Monitoring

7. 8 Performance Pages

8. 3 R's of Celebration

These tool sets are available in our CD-ROM templates kit, and some tool sets are available in our customized applications for Palm Pilots™ and Handspring™ PDAs, the OptionFinder® opinion polling system, or our Touch Screen Kiosks.

Tool Set 1.
Octagonal Idea Engine for Out-of-the-Box Trends
Spotting

Your team members stimulate their strategic thinking by reviewing trends as captured graphically in modern publications in and outside your industry, that can influence your organizational plans and success.

This Tool Set contains 7 templates to facilitate effective stakeholder engagement.

Tool Set 2.
333 Innovations Plunge: A Modern Stakeholder Assessment

Your stakeholders possess a majority of the insights you need to define your comparative advantages and disadvantages for performance improvement and strategic success. This set of templates taps their years of experience and judgments to shape your action planning.

This Tool Set contains 9 templates to facilitate effective stakeholder engagement.

Tool Set 3.
8 Faceted Aikido Action Planning "the Obstacle Reversal Technique" (ORT):

It is common for groups to get distracted by old mindsets about why something can not get accomplished. These templates harness the negative energy of “nay sayers” and converts it into positive momentum for action planning and implementation.

This Tool Set contains 5 templates to facilitate effective stakeholder engagement.

Tool Set 4.
The Creativity Gym: 8 Mental Aerobics Exercises for Smarter, More Likely Implemented Plans

Strategic thinking needs to be harnessed by these templates to define actions your team needs to start, stop and continue for peak performance enhancement.

This Tool Set contains 6 templates to facilitate effective stakeholder engagement.

Tool Set 5.
Troika 8


Your Stakeholder Engagement Quotient tm (EQ) drives you to achieve success. This template helps you focus on actions to assure E8 employees, C8 work processes, and L8 leaders.

This Tool Set contains 1 template to facilitate effective stakeholder engagement.

Tool Set 6.
888 Action Plans


Long-range plans demand short-range actions and accountabilities. Our templates help you focus commitments for follow-through in 8 days, 8 weeks and 8 months.

This Tool Set contains 3 templates to facilitate effective stakeholder engagement.

Tool Set 7.
8 Performance Pages


The implementation of great strategies often falter because of weak progress tracking and preparedness for contingencies. New web based intranets can help achieve just in time performance monitoring, project management, and refinement of your initiatives for success. This set of templates illustrates the framework for such an intranet.

This Tool Set contains 1 web site template to facilitate effective stakeholder engagement.

Tool Set 8.
The 3R's of a Celebration Commitment: Results, Recognition and Rewards

Results require recognition and rewards, for individuals and for teams. These templates help focus your reward structure on the factors that really matter to your stakeholders.

This Tool Set contains 2 templates to facilitate effective stakeholder engagement.

 

 


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