The Seven
Domains are the seven areas that are managed in every enterprise and
every activity of the enterprise. When managed properly they ensure
corporate health and allow Knowledge-based organizations to grow and
profit. In short, they are:
Venture
Management is the practice of leadership,
innovation, reinvention and recreation of the enterprise as an ongoing
process. It is managing the successful and continued exposure to
risk while multiplying the value of existing capacities and resources.
Project
Management is the domain of execution: of applying the strategy,
tactics and methods to produce results. It implies the rigorous
use of feedback in its full cybernetic sense.
Body
of Knowledge is managing the information and knowledge resource
of an organization critical to successful planning and steerage
of its operations. The Body of Knowledge implies systematic management
of that knowledge resource.
Facilitation
is facilitation of all areas of an organization and all aspects
of its work. Facilitate means to make easy; it is the process of
removing blocks to an individual’s and organization’s work process.
Education
is a critical factor in building a knowledge worker based organization.
Education is a tool of leadership—of leading forward and guiding
the new organization.
Environment
is about building A workplace that works. It affects productivity,
creativity and the ability to integrate and apply knowledge. Most
work environments contain massive blocks to that process.
Technical
Systems/Technology is building the tools, computerized and manual,
which allow the organization to work effectively as a unified system.
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