Peter Flentov

Principal at 20/20 Innovation LLC

Greater Boston Area

Current
  • Chapter President at PDMA New England Chapter
  • Principal at 20/20 Innovation LLC
Past
  • Consultant at DSM
  • Vice President at Product Genesis
  • Director, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Systems at The Timberland Company
  • Managing Consultant at Coopers & Lybrand
  • Supervisor at Ernst & Whinney
Education
  • University of Cape Town
  • University of Cape Town
Connections
295 connections
Industry
Management Consulting

Peter Flentov’s Summary

Peter is a Founding Partner of 20/20 Innovation, a strategic innovation and business renewal consultancy. He has over 20 years of experience helping companies identify and implement value-based strategies that allow them to achieve sustainable growth and enhance shareholder value. Providing careful analysis and fresh insights, helps lead companies through extensive market and customer investigation and competitive analysis to evaluate their current business activities, gauge future opportunities and to develop business strategies and operational plans to help achieve long term success. Specifically, he has helped companies such as the DOE’s UEA, AT&T, DEC, Stanhope Home Products, BBN, Genetics Institute, Astra Pharmaceuticals, Medrad and John Deere assess market opportunities, perform market expectation and competitive analyses, and develop value propositions and business models to effectively deliver customer value. He has extensive experience in customer needs analysis and requirements definition.

Prior to 20/20 Innovation he was on the management team at Product Genesis, a product strategy, design and development consultancy spun out of MIT’s Innovation Center. While at Product Genesis he developed BreakPoint Innovation™, a method for repeatable and reliable innovation. This framework has been enhanced and expanded into 20/20 Innovation’s Innovation Catalyst™ and Innovation Catapult™ methodologies for strategic innovation.

Peter is the founder of PhatRat Technologies, Inc. and is a co-inventor on eight issued patents. He has Computer Science and Commerce degrees from the University of Cape Town, and has published numerous articles on cost management and strategic performance measurement.

Peter Flentov’s Specialties:

Innovation and business renewal; market assessment and strategy development; value proposition development and brand positioning.


Peter Flentov’s Experience

  • Chapter President

    PDMA New England Chapter

    (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    May 2006Present (2 years 3 months)

  • Principal

    20/20 Innovation LLC

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

    June 2005Present (3 years 2 months)

    20/20 Innovation provides the following innovation and business renewal services:
    - White space innovation for creating new value
    - Strategic innovation for exceptional performance
    - Value proposition development and positioning for competitive advantage
    - User research for powerful insights into customer needs
    - Creative problem solving to extract breakthrough insight, and
    - Implementation road mapping to link insight to action.

  • Consultant

    DSM

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DSM; Chemicals industry)

    20062008 (2 years)

  • Vice President

    Product Genesis

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

    June 2001June 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  • Director, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Systems

    The Timberland Company

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TBL; Consumer Goods industry)

    January 1993February 1995 (2 years 2 months)

  • Managing Consultant

    Coopers & Lybrand

    (Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

    September 1986January 1993 (6 years 5 months)

  • Supervisor

    Ernst & Whinney

    (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

    19831986 (3 years)


Peter Flentov’s Education

  • University of Cape Town

    B. Comm. Honours, 19821983

  • University of Cape Town

    B. Sc, Computer Science, 19761979


Additional Information

Peter Flentov’s Groups:

PDMA, Innovation, OASiS, Metaskil, Coopers & Lybrand, John Hancock, NeoResins, Sybase Professional Services, Product Genesis

  •    Laboratory Robotics Interest Group (LRIG) member
  •    Product Development and Management Association member
  •    Innovation Challenge Judging Community member
  •    Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network member
  •    Boston Innovators member
  •    Innovation Management Group member
  •    Front End of Innovation member
  •    GoSecure member
  •    PricewaterhouseCoopers Alumni Group member

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