Roadmap to the Enterprise of the Future

Your Path To Becoming an Enterprise of the Future

In order to compete in a flat world, you must transform your organization into a knowledge enterprise. Here are the major steps:

Capture your key institutional knowledge
Organize that knowledge, so you can protect and grow what you know
Apply the knowledge, using the latest tools and technologies, to streamline your key decision processes, and boost productivity.

Phase I: Capture

Identify the Critical Work

AKCheckup^TM

• Inventory key, knowledge-intensive work processes

• Identify greatest strengths, opportunities, and risks impacting your institutional knowledge

• Recommend specific approaches for boosting knowledge workforce performance

Prioritize and Align

AKStrategist^TM

• Perform top-to-bottom organizational review

• Identify performance drivers having greatest impact on mission and strategy

• Link key processes to performance drivers

• Identify enablers for enhancing key processes

Capture Critical Knowledge

AKCapture^TM

• Identify decisions most critical to mission success
• Identify top performers in mission critical areas
• Model decision processes and best practices of top performers

Phase II: Organize

Organize the Knowledge	AKTaxonomist^TM	• Organize your knowledge so you can find it, and share it with others • Eliminate randomness and manage complexity
Organize the Knowledge	AKMapper^TM	• Identify key knowledge elements and relationships (“connect the dots”)
Pilot a Solution	AKPilot^TM	• Develop performance metrics • Define knowledge requirements • Match best tools, methods, and practices with requirements • Formulate a solution, using a phased approach: o Concept demo o Pilot o Expanded development o Implementation
Pilot a Solution	AKProject^TM	• Develop and execute master plan for identifying and managing knowledge initiatives • Develop a well-defined process for capturing and growing institutional knowledge on a large scale

Phase III: Apply

Engage Your People	AKProductivity Suite^TM	DecisionXLerator^TM	Reduce costly decision-making errors; Make critical decisions faster, more consistently
		ReportXLerator^TM	Improve responsiveness by communicating decisions clearly and quickly
		AKSearch^TM	Answer your search queries better by finding not just “what to do,” but “how to do it”
		AKSmallBusiness^TM	Affordable enterprise knowledge management, on a small scale
	AKLeader^TM	• Change the way your organization thinks about work • Every individual becomes a leader/contributor in their area
The Learning Enterprise	AKMentor^TM	• Develop a well-defined process for capturing and growing institutional knowledge on a large scale • Execute consistently • Make critical decisions faster, and more consistently • Reduce costly decision-making errors • Periodically review and refine strategic objectives and process improvements

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