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Building the Enterprise of the Future:

Transforming your organization to compete in a global, billion-mind economy

Think about how fast your market is changing.  Are you leading the changes, keeping pace, or falling behind? 

As the pace of change accelerates, the old business models no longer work.  If you want to succeed in the global knowledge economy, you have to transform your organization into the Enterprise of the Future.  This means learning, and innovating, at the speed of change in the market.

Achieving sustained, high performance in a complex, rapidly-changing world

The key to this transformation is moving from a knowledge-hoarding organization to a knowledge-sharing enterprise.  This means capturing, sharing, applying, and growing the institutional knowledge which is most critical to your success.

We have identified three areas of transformation essential to becoming an enterprise of the future:

  1. Strategic alignment from top-to-bottom
  2. Knowing what you know
  3. Attracting, retaining, and growing talent

Strategic alignment from top-to-bottom means:

  • Sensing, responding to, and driving, the changes in your market
  • Aligning people, processes and technologies with strategy
  • Choosing the right tools and technologies, and using those you already have more effectively
  • Continually measuring, tracking, and improving performance

Knowing what you know means:

  • Capturing and growing your critical knowledge, before it walks out the door
  • Capturing, sharing, and applying lessons-learned
  • Making faster, better, and more consistent decisions, with fewer errors

Attracting, retaining, and growing talent means:

  • Making your organization a safe proving ground for generating and testing new ideas
  • Recognizing and rewarding learning, innovating, and contributing through others as critical skills
  • Creating a culture of shared success driven by knowledge creation, sharing, and growth

All of which result in — sustained high performance in the new, global knowledge economy.

We are the next-generation consultancy, with a scientifically proven framework for transforming your organization into a knowledge enterprise.  Our methodology is based on over twenty years of university research and field application, in government, commercial, and non-profit organizations. Hence our name: Applied Knowledge Sciences.

Let us show you how it's done.  We'd be delighted to share our knowledge with you, and help you become a highly adaptive, fast-learning organization.

My very best wishes for your continued success.

Arthur J. Murray, D.Sc.
President and CEO
Applied Knowledge Sciences, Inc.

 

Boyce, Virginia, USA;     Manama, Bharain

 

Hot Topics:

Enterprise of the Future Research

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News:

AKS named to KMWorld's "100 Companies That Matter In Knowledge Management"

AKS wins SBIR Phase I contract

AKS team members among Emerald Literati Network's 2007 Excellence Award recipients

Recent Articles (from KMWorld's monthly series, The Future of the Future):

Out of Africa: the Next Billion Minds

Government as a Knowledge Enterprise

Boundary-less Living, Working and Learning

A Billion-Mind Economy

Overcoming Resistance to Change

Breaking the Lessons-Learned Barrier

Breaking Free of the Technology Trap

Building the Enterprise of the Future Means No More Secrets

Events:

2008:

Coming in Fall 2008 (date TBA)"Corporate Survival in a Volatile World: Creating and Sustaining the 21st Century Enterprise;" The George Washington University, Ashburn, VA

Events Archive:

2007:

November 5: KMWorld & Intranets 2007, San Jose, CA; Workshops led by Drs. Art Murray and Rudy Garrity:

Dealing with Change & Building the Enterprise of the Future - 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Learnership: Developing Knowledge Worker Skills for the Future - 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

May 24: Dallas/Fort Worth KM Community (download presentation)

May 23: Succession Planning for Government (online seminar hosted by Plexus Scientific and HandySoft)

 

 

 

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