About the tetradian
The tetradian is a means to understand the workings of the enterprise as a whole. In the pressures of day-to-day business, it's easy to lose track of where each person's work fits into the architecture of the whole enterprise:
- the way things are done - the actions, the behaviours;
- what people know and believe and learn;
- how people relate, with customers, suppliers, stakeholders, each other and themselves;
- what people aspire to - their ambitions, vision, purpose - and in what they take pride; and
- how all of these layers interweave into the overall 'soul' and culture of the organisation
Most consultancies or groups focus on just one of these dimensions: IT infrastructure, perhaps, or physical quality, or emotional intelligence. By contrast, we emphasise the need for continuing awareness of the organisation
as a whole, with all these dimensions interacting and interweaving through each other in constant, dynamic, ever-changing equilibrium.
So rather than address only a single dimension, or a two-dimensional 'flatland' at best, our work revolves around the integration of
all of these dimensions - the business processes, business knowledge, business relationships and business purpose that form the 'four corners of the business world'.
'Tetra' = four, 'radian' = dimension, hence what we describe as the
tetradian - as above - is the simplest possible map of an organisation's 'innerstructure': those four dimensions, in tetrahedral relationship, with a precise mapping of the infrastructural themes that link the dimensions together into a cohesive whole. The result: actions support knowledge support relationships support vision support actions, and back again, in every possible combination.
This perception provides the basis for the
tetradian model that we feature on this site. And it’s also the reason for our logo: four dimensions, spiralling round each other, one in focus at a time, but the others also all in awareness at all times - the calm at the centre of the storm.
A unified whole; a productive whole that’s profitable in every sense, for everyone involved. That’s what we aim always to create for - and within - our clients’ organisations.
