Know what you don't know: knowledge optimization.

Step one: as an organization, what do you know? How does knowledge move through your structure? Does everyone get the information they need, when they need it? When your most experienced professionals leave...does their know-how leave with them? Do new employees hit the ground running—or crawling up a learning curve?

An organization that doesn't know what it should gives out dozens of signals. But it's hard to spot them from the inside. It's like being stuck in traffic—only the guy in the helicopter knows why you're doing 12 mph on a four-lane highway.

Here's how some of our clients have described what they don't know.

Having targeted priority knowledge gaps, we will work out a solution. We guide our clients along an orderly pathway—from discerning where and how knowledge is impeded or lacking—to patching the holes, closing the gaps, changing the processes or structures.

Here are some effective solutions, with reliable results.

We look at your level of “knowledge empowerment” and assess whether it will support your business objectives to get to a higher level of knowledge optimization within your organization. Roll over each orb for details on our knowledge maturity indicator.

knowledge maturity adrift in information overload finding knowledge sharing knowledge creating knowledge knowledge empowered
Most organizational knowledge embedded in e-mail; individual knowledge is power; emphasis on information and data; any sharing is ad hoc
Emphasis on documenting and connecting to knowledge resources (explicit knowledge) through a knowledge base
Emphasis on tacit knowledge (our “know-how”); connecting those who know with those who need to know
Emphasis on engaging stakeholders in the creation of new knowledge to set the organization apart
Knowledge optimization is infused in every business process; a part of the corporate culture; this is a learning organization and the leaders as well as the employees walk the talk