How does the OMNICORD relate to emerging theories and approaches?
Consultants, leaders, and visionaries like Tom Peters, Thomas Friedman, Stephen Covey, etal., have been heralding the emerging paradigm shift, but have neither quite identified its core attributes, nor its direction. The OMNICORD resulted from a convergence of factors that revealed how business and technical communities had been stepping through the stages of a significant cycle for the past fifty or so years. Because the cycle is not yet complete, the pattern predicts not only the next two stages (major paradigm shifts), but their natures as well. Knowing the archetypical nature of these stages permits a deeper understanding of today’s business, technical, social, and political landscape. It also make it possible to choose tools and strategies that are best suited for today’s emerging paradigm, and the next. Leveraging paradigm-appropriate tools and strategies naturally increases one’s chances for successfully overcoming today’s emerging challenges and innovating next-generation solut
