The Power of 8™ tools have been developed by Octants³, a knowledge management enterprise developed by a team of U.S., U.K. and Scandinavian consultants and researchers affiliated with the business schools at the University of Minnesota and Cambridge University in England.

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Mission of Parent Company:
Octants³ is an international company dedicated to enable individuals and professionals to achieve exponential improvement in their individual and organizational performance.

Strategic Goals:

1. Continuously advance knowledge about organizational and individual performance improvement;
   
   
2. Enhance the use of Internet and wireless technologies to improve the “just-in-time” application of performance improvement knowledge in both public and private sector organizations; and
   
   
3. Develop maximum shareholder value through an economically strong business model that integrates the advantages of both knowledgeware licensing with the sale of multimedia products and consulting services.

Values Guiding our Work:

1. Grassroots knowledge:
   Employees closest to the business challenges are the best resources to define and implement performance improvement initiatives, and should therefore be supported with modern, multimedia resources and hand held knowledge management technologies to gain a sense of delight in their work, and a share of the enterprise’s economic vitality.
   
   
2. Societal Enrichment:
   High performance organizations are society’s best hope for the balanced achievement of sustainable service and product quality; broad based economic growth to benefit all demographic segments of society; and maximum employment.
   
   
3. Human Potential:
   Leaders must earn followers, and are more likely to be effective at this by: respecting and listening to the ideas and needs of workers; by fostering an organizational culture that celebrates and rewards innovation and performance; by continuously enhancing the principles and practices of Human Performance Technology (HPT) as advocated by The International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI); the American Center for Productivity and Quality (ACPQ), and the World Confederation of Productivity Science (WCPS).
   
   
4. Emotional Engagement:
   Peak performance can only be achieved if people are both intellectually and emotionally engaged in the change process. Emotional engagement and enthusiasm is essential, and is most probable from work about which people feel a positive sense of control; a sense of satisfaction that their work and contributions are important; a sense of stress that their work has urgency; and over which they have significant accountability and authority to excel.
   
   
5. Self-directed Teams:
   Self-directed teams yield results that are exponentially better than the work of even the most gifted and industrious individuals.

Octants³ High performance domains raised to the power of 3. Exponential performance in 3 ways: smarter stakeholder engagement; faster stakeholder engagement; and sustained change from greater stakeholder ownership of performance improvement plans.