The Knowledge Value Chain® Workbook is a core feature of TKA’s clinics and workshops. It’s currently available only to participants in TKA events. If you are interested in sponsoring such an event at your organization, please contact us for evaluation samples.
The KVC Workbook is a 120-page oversize (8 1/2 x 11″) spiral-bound book containing slides, text, and other KVC Clinic discussion and reference materials. This is a limited-edition, deluxe version, printed in full color on heavy paper.
The Workbook contains four major sections:
Introduction - A series of short essays about the organizational applications of knowledge and intelligence.
The Knowledge Value Chain® – 90 illustrated slides that form the basis of KVC clinics and workshops, most annotated with extensive speaker’s notes. This contains sections on basic KVC Principles and on KVC Applications in solving business problems.
The KVC ScorecardTM – A 67-point checklist system you can implement to ensure the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of intelligence and other knowledge products, processes, and people.
The Knowledge Value Chain: How to Fix It When It Breaks - Updated version of a paper originally presented by KVC developer Tim Powell at KnowledgeNets 2001 that describes the KVC model and its implications for business.
It’s jargon-lite!
The Workbook is written in English. However, it contains a minimum of business jargon, and key points are highlighted in slide bullet-points. In this way, we’ve tried to make it easily understood by people whose primary language is other than English—as well as people whose time, attention, and tolerance for “consultant-ese” are stretched thin.
What are KVC users saying?
SCIP Meritorious Award winner John McGonagle, reviewing the Workbook in the spring 2009 issue of Competitive Intelligence Magazine, says: “The KVC Workbook can easily be used by CI professionals to explain how CI, together with other sources of knowledge, creates value for enterprises. It also makes CI professionals aware of how they contribute value to the decision-making process. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.”
Former SCIP President Dr. Mark Little, agrees. “We’re using the KVC model as a teaching and diagnostic tool throughout our company (with your permission, of course!) By explaining intelligence to the many people who don’t understand it (but need to), it adds to intelligence—and ultimately, to value.”
The head of the information center at a large pharmaceuticals firm says, “We were looking for ways to describe visually what our work consists of, so that our decision-maker clients would be better informed consumers of our services. The KVC model gives us the tools to do that.”
A senior strategy officer at a global consumer products firm writes, “I found the Workbook useful in defining underlying principles and an approach to go from data to action, something we are always trying to improve.”
How can I maximize the benefits?
We’re confident you’ll see the greater potential to transform your knowledge organization into a value-producing center for your enterprise, as others have done. To that end, TKA offers clinics, diagnostic assessments, and consulting to help you reap the full benefits from the KVC methodology.
How can I get the Workbook?
The Workbook makes an ideal discussion guide and take-away for group business events. Contact TKA for special pricing on volume orders for corporate and academic meetings.
PUBLISHER: TKA Eyes and Ears
ISBN: 978-0-978414-0-8
DESIGN: John Fantini
PRINTING: Spectragraphic, Inc.
KVC Workbook 3.2
The KVC Workbook is a 120-page oversize (8 1/2 x 11″) bound book containing slides, text, and other KVC Clinic discussion and reference materials.
Coming soon: Downloadable e-Book version of the KVC Workbook. Check back soon!
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