Peter Flentov

Peter Flentov

Regional Director at PDMA

Greater Boston Area

Current
  • Regional Director at PDMA
  • Principal at 20/20 Innovation LLC
Past
  • Chapter President at PDMA New England Chapter
  • Consultant at DSM
  • VP of Marketing at Intelisphere
Education
  • University of Cape Town
  • University of Cape Town
  • Settlers High
Connections
451 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

  • Regional Director

    PDMA

    (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    January 2009Present (11 months)

  • Principal

    20/20 Innovation LLC

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

    June 2005Present (4 years 6 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.

  • Chapter President

    PDMA New England Chapter

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    May 2006December 2008 (2 years 8 months)

  • Consultant

    DSM

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

    20062008 (2 years )

  • VP of Marketing

    Intelisphere

    (Management Consulting industry)

    20032003 (less than a year)

  • Vice President

    Product Genesis

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

    June 2001June 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  • Consultant

    John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.)

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MFC; Financial Services industry)

    19962000 (4 years )

  • Managing Consultant

    Sybase/OASiS

    (Management Consulting industry)

    19951996 (1 year )

  • 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

  • Settlers High


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)
  •    Product Development and Management Association
  •    Innovation Challenge Judging Alumni
  •    Boston Product Management Association
  •    ValueNetworks.com Value Networks
  •    Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
  •    Design Thinking
  •    Timberland Alumni
  •    Boston Innovators
  •    Innovation Management Group
  •    Front End of Innovation
  •    GoSecure
  •    Advanced Innovation Methods (AIM)
  •    Ethnography Forum
  •    University of Cape Town Alumni
  •    PwC Consulting Professionals Network
  •    Voice of the Customer
  •    NPD In-the-Know
  •    Gennova Group
  •    Agile Product Management CoP
  •    Opportunity Selection CoP
  •    PM Anthropology CoP
  •    Measured & Managed Innovation
  •    UCT Alumni in the USA

Peter Flentov’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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