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I’m Tim Powell, founder and president of The Knowledge Agency®. I’ve been a business research/analysis/intelligence professional for more than four decades. During that time I’ve been fortunate to work with some very successful and advanced organizations, large and small, in both the public and private sectors.
My capsule summary: Most organizations are not nearly as well-equipped to compete in the “knowledge economy” as they could and should be. Though they spend plenty of resources on information content and technologies, they rarely get the return on investment (ROI) they expect. This lost opportunity adversely impacts their bottom line—and can have a deeper corrosive effect on their ability to compete effectively.
A simple question
One day more than ten years ago I asked myself a simple question: What is the relationship between an organization’s knowledge—including data, information, and intelligence—and how that organization creates value—revenues, profits, shareholder value, etc.? I discovered that by documenting and strengthening that linkage, you can begin to manage it better. This enables you to increase the ROI of knowledge-based activities, as I’ve been able to do with people in strategy, IT, corporate intelligence, the corporate library, knowledge management, R&D, market research, sales, and security.
This fundamental insight became the Knowledge Value Chain® (KVC) model and framework. Since that time I’ve been conducting training workshops and clinics (both physical and electronic) on this methodology around the world. It’s so readily-understood that most people are ready to start applying it to improve ROI after as little as one day of training.
Hundreds of organizations—large and small, in a range of industries and government agencies—have benefited. I’d like yours to be among them, and there’s a range of ways we can work with you. Contact me and let’s make it happen.
