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Hello, I’m Tim Powell, president of The Knowledge Agency®. I’ve been a business research/analysis/intelligence professional for more than three decades. During that time I’ve been fortunate to work with some very successful and well-managed organizations, large and small, in both the public and private sectors.
View my profileHowever, I’ve consistently observed that 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 time and money on information content and technologies, they rarely get the return on investment (ROI) they expect.
This lost opportunity adversely impacts their bottom line in the short term—and can have a longer-term and deeper adverse effect on their ability to compete effectively.
It simply does not have to be this way. Organizations must, and can, do better.
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 that linkage, you can begin to manage it better. This in turn enables you to increase the ROI and value-added 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 methodology. Since that time I’ve been conducting seminars (both physical and electronic), training workshops, and clinics on the KVC around the world. It’s so readily-absorbed that most people are ready to start applying it 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 sincerely like you to be among them, and there’s a range of ways we can work together. Contact me and let’s make it happen.
