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We rely on 8's to grab your attention. The preoccupation with
8's is partially a gimmick to make you re-think how you can
improve your enterprise planning and strategy development.
The numeral 8 also links with research
findings about the eight zones (octants) of the mind’s
“affective domain."
An “Octant”
is also an ancient navigation device similar to the sextant.
Our tools help organizations navigate through the shoals of
unforgiving markets and demanding customers.
Our 25
years of experience has shown the power of connecting to stakeholder
emotions, as well as their experience, to generate not only
better strategy, but strategy that is actually implemented,
and is more sustainable.
Question:
Why
do these eight tools help organizations ... in the new-new
economy; in the post dot.bomb era; in the dawning of the age
of the knowledge-worker ... to assist executives and project
managers achieve engaged workers, and better results using
faster and smarter performance improvement interventions?
Answer:
Because
they focus on, and leverage up the unique personalities, psychologies
and performance needs of workplace players, from boomers to
Gen X'ers.
In the
new economy enterprise, leaders are searching for new strategy
and action planning tools that harness and focus the eclectic
energy and insights of new planning players; players who are
all scrambling to build value, earn market share, enhance
productivity and raise the bar for peak performance in unforgiving
markets.
Based
on an exhaustive examination of the top business books published
in the last three years, over 2025 ideas and insights for
better performance improvement and change management have
been defined and distilled into these 8 tools.
What do
Boomers, 30-somethings, Gen X and Gen Y managers and project
leaders have in common?
- they
are hungry to be more fully engaged in meaningful business
planning;
- they’re
skeptical about traditional strategy development tools,
such as SWOT analysis, brainstorming and nominal group processes;
- they’re
impatient to see faster results in turbulent and warp speed
change environments;
- they
want not just out-of-the-box thinking, but out-of-the-box
action;
- they’ve
come to realize that balanced score card results often demand
unbalanced strategy development processes, and a new generation
set of tools for a new generation set of challenges and
opportunities.
The
Power of 8™ Tool Kit is based upon our research over
the past 25 years in Europe and North America on how executives
and teams can best move into high performance domains by tapping
both the analytical power of great cognitive planning tools
(using the cognitive domain of your mind), but also by connecting
with and igniting the affective domain of your people’s
minds. You must harness the heart as well as the head for
peak performance improvement.
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 Xers.
- 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 organizations.
The
tool kit includes a CD-ROM with eight reference pamphlets
and eight sets of worksheets and computer templates address
eight essential aspects of strategy development to achieve
organizational peak performance.
These
tools can be used as stand-alone processes, or in conjunction
with our customized applications for OptionFinder® Palm
OS™ PDA, or Touch Screen Kiosk interactive computer system
templates.
The new
economy demands players organized into new, interdisciplinary
and cross-generational teams. New processes are required among
these eclectic players to deliver the new mindsets and market
results organizations require at the dawn of the 21st century.
The planning and marketing methods of the 80's and 90's aren’t
cutting it. Moving in uncharted terrain at warp speed requires
faster and smarter business planning processes and participants.
The Power of 8™ delivers an inexpensive set of processes
and decision support tools to jump-start your business and
market planning for product, service and profit growth.
Improve
the quality and focus of your marketing and distribution strategies,
as well as rekindle enthusiastic accountability to get the
new strategies implemented more quickly, and with greater
gains in market share, profitability, customer loyalty and
employee delight.
Fully
engaged knowledge workers and today’s employees are looking
for new processes and tools for business planning and project
management. Your mindsets and methods must embrace fresh idea
factories, next generation brainstorming tools, interesting
group dynamics management resources or risk a sub-optimal
number and quality of ideas needed for enhanced product-service
innovation, and the sense of ownership required to actually
get grand plans implemented, on time and on budget.
The
Power of 8™
An
exciting, new multi-media toolkit produced by Octants3,
a different kind of knowledge management enterprise. Octants3,
your source for exponential performance improvement. Octants3:
new learning experiences, publications, consulting and executive
coaching.
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