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Is New World management a new
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Click Here for the Full Answer The Quick Answer is: Pentacle The Virtual Business School started its continuous learning programmes in the dim, distant past - in 1994. All the New world concepts have been applied tried and tested on Pentacle itself and with pioneering clients. We don't teach anything we don't know will work. |
Who have you worked with in the past? |
Click Here for the Full Answer The Quick Answer is: Just so you can see that we work across all industries our client list goes across the Private sector:- from Service to Manufacturing to Information and Communication Technology from Retail to FMCG In addition we work with several public sector organisations. Follow this link if you want to see some examples of past assignments. |
What did you achieve with them?However, to give you a feel for the scope and size of the work we do there are a few very old and no longer strategically important examples.
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Click Here for the Full Answer The Quick Answer is: The GOOD NEWS: The results have been stupendous! In both business terms and in the personal development of the people involved. The BAD NEWS: Because we are helping organisations to implement real strategic advantage we have to keep details of our work very confidential. Go here if you want to know more about the range of issues we tackle |
How will you understand the issues of my organisation or the people in it?Our approach is not to be:
Instead we help you to learn what to do and how to do it yourselves We provoke, inspire, educate, enable, coach, and facilitate. And the best part is because you learnt it, next time you can do it yourselves without having to call us in again! |
Click Here for the Full Answer The Quick Answer is: Our approach is very elegant and effective. We use your knowledge of the situation plus our understanding of the 'patterns' we have learnt from similar situations plus some clear but effective tools like BubbleDiagramsTM and Gap Analysis. |
How does The Virtual Business School work?We use a combination of 'Touchspace' and 'Cyberspace' to create and deliver the appropriate learning in the right way to your organisation. We use a framework to understand Corporate issues and then create a learning intervention to match. If you want to have a look at examples of how Pentacle created and supported a major multinationals develop major new business opportunities you need to look here. The summaries are is written up in their own words. Full details of the pioneering approach we use has recently been published in the New Gower 3rd edition of the Handbook of Training and Development
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How much does this cost/ how much internal resource do we need?Well it depends . . . |
Click Here for the Full Answer The Quick Answer is: Think ROI not Cost |
What is it like working with you?
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Full Answer The Quick Answer is: One of our key values is to DELIGHT AND CHALLENGE THE PEOPLE WE WORK WITH |
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'Nuvomondism' the New World Management Approach? By all measures the Knowledge Management movement has had a great run over the past half decade. By all measures the e revolution will have an even more extraordinary run in the New World. The impact on how managers work and learn is tremendous and is making many of our current skills and approaches parochial and obsolete.
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New Business models- The increase in complexity of the new business models which move from the traditional growth via more of the same to using globalisation, mergers, and e-commerce as standard tools, means that significant areas of study from marketing to operations, and finance to human resource management have to be re-thought. The continuously changing complexity of these business models leaves managers in the organisations little time to learn how to best operate in the new environment. New organisations- The business models demand different forms of organisation, distributed virtual teams operating on global challenges needing to share information and knowledge instantaneously, KnowWhy, KnowHow and KnowWhat are critical for speed of action and empowerment in the new organisation. Commoditisation of management education- As the knowledge is captured electronically and codified for sharing, the ease of duplication and replication of electronic information means that any standardised or popular theory quickly becomes commoditised. Diagnosis of learning needs, identification early of new patterns and frameworks and innovative delivery rather than the delivery of widely published content becomes the main source of value that a management educator adds. Changing models of learning- These factors are all leading to a changing focus on the demand for models of learning. Learning demands become more immediate and just in time, continuous, linked to application, local and on-line, electronically captured and shared among the wider team. Changing role of the educator/ developer- The role of the educator/ developer must adapt to match from regurgitated content provider to new/ leading edge content provider, from Sophist and case study provider to diagnoser and designer, from front of the classroom to coach in the workplace-either face-to-face or on-line. |
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