Body Of Knowledge

BODY OF KNOWLEDGE

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Introduction

Complete Curriculum

P E N T A C L E H O M E P A G E

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Ten Years of Innovation ... and Hard Work!
We've done it! After ten years of hard work the Pentacle Team (led by Professor Eddie Obeng, including Andy Burnett, Susan Ross, Christophe Gillet, John Baldock....) have managed to develop a JOINED-UP framework and a suite of Pentacle Performance Enhancement Tools (Pentacle PETs TM) which ACTUALLY WORK in a complex and changing world.

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1. We do not have 'off-the=shelf' one-size-fits-all' solutions Instead we build the most effective and value-providing solution for each client
2. New World Philosophy and Thinking - we begin by assuming that the solution is to be delivered into a complex fast-changing environment. there the people delivering and receiving the change may not fully understand the challenge or the solution

3. We have created and use a body of knowledge of a large number of concepts, tools, techniques and frameworks we have proven work very effectively in toddy's complex world

OLD WORLD		NEW WORLD (Our reality)
Assumes a stable, non-global business environment where learning can outpace change		Takes into account our real-life, unstable, global business environment where change often outpaces learning

Activity Based Costing		TimeisMoneyisTime^TM TIMIT^TM View
Adaptive Organisation		Virtual Team Based Organisation
Adizes PAEI management roles		5 Roles - invent the future, help people work better together, deliver today, deliver tomorrow, ensure results
Ansoff’s Product Market Grid		Full Offer Model^TMFOM^TM Offer Extension
Argyris’ Learning Organisation		Evolutionary Organisation^TM (split accountability and responsibility)
Belbin’s Team Roles		Team Contribution Model^TMUnbalancing the Team^TMCompensation Strategies^TM
Berenschot’s Project Management Model		Project Dynamics (Open-Closed, Internal-External, Visible-Invisible)
Berenschot’s Seven Forces Model		Laws of Change^TMBuilding Blocks - New World, Cybercones^TM, Emergence^TM
Boston Consulting Group’s Matrix		Money-making Machine^TM 5 Questions^TMProfit / Profitability Chart^TM
Change Quadrants		Red Ant Man^TM
Competing Values of Organisational Effectiveness		Fractal Model^TM
Compliance Typology		Nic’s Power Grid^TM
Core Competences		OrganoWeb Capabilities^TM
Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People		12 Rules for the New World
Customer Marketing and Relationship Management		Money-making Loops^TMCo-evolution (Suction fish) / Frog-spawn / Apple Tree^TM
Demming’s Cycle		PDRLA cycle
Economic Value Added		Do Nothing of No Use (VwA^TM)
Eisenhower’s Effective Time Management		TIMIT^TM, Make Time Fit
Goldberg’s Emotional Intelligence		Emotional Engagement \ IDQB^TM
Goldrat’s Theory of Constraints		<<Goldrat’s Theory of Constraints>>
Gould, Campbell and Alexander's Parenting Advantage		OrganoWeb^TM
Grenier’s Growth Model		Fractal Model^TM
Hammer and Champney's Business process re-engineering		VOQD Method (Verb Object Question Data)^TMPIMFlow Analysis^TM
Hofstede’s cultural dimensions		CultureAgnostics^TM
Kaizen		Chunking^TM
Kaplan’s Balanced Scorecard		Money-making Machine Questions^TM
Kotter’s eight phases of change		Red Ant Man^TM
Kraljic’s Purchasing Model		Some suppliers are more important than some customers Racket-Rip-off^TM
MABA Analysis		Profit / Profitability Chart^TM
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs		Happy Larry^TM
McKinsey’s (Waterman Peters & Philips’) 7-S Model		12 Dimensions of Organisations^TM
Mintzberg’s Configurations		OrganoWeb^TM
Mintzberg’s Management Roles		Focus5^TM(5 Roles^TM - invent the future, work with the people deliver today, deliver tomorrow, ensure results)
Moss Kanter’s Change Model		Red Ant Man^TM
Nolan’s IT Growth Strategies		Inter-Internet^TM
PEST Analysis		Future Mapping^TM
Porter’s Five Forces of Competitive Analysis		EDDies Model of Competitive focus^TM (Evolve Dominate Die)
Porter’s Generic Competitive Strategies		Strategic Event Management^TM
Risk Reward analysis		Alien Invasion^TM
Ulrich's Roles of HR		Applied HR^TM
Senge’s Fifth Discipline		Bubble Diagrams^TM, Money-making Loops^TM
Shell’s Scenario Planning		Robust Strategy Invention^TMDynamic Business Model^TM
Sociotechnical Organisation		OrganoWeb^TM
SWOT Analysis		Future Mapping^TM
The Marketing Mix		Bullseye^TMCustomer Client Consumer Company Competitor Collaborator Context
Toyota’s Just in Time		Do Nothing of NO Use
Value Based Management		Money-making Machine^TM

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