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RESEARCH REPORT on

KNOWLEDGE ENABLING SOFTWARE

The premise of the report is that everything we do is increasingly enabled by software tools. Like a competent carpenter, we need to have in our tool chest, a variety of tools we can use to help us deliver precise and efficient results. Smarter tools, used skillfully in the appropriate context , can really move us ahead. In a knowledge-based economy, understanding what software tools can be harnessed to leverage the knowledge resource, can be of tremendous value. Especially if you have a context, in which you take full advantage of this knowledge.

The Research Report therefore provides :

• An introduction to the fast emerging market-space for knowledge enabling
  software

• An opportunity for serious learning acceleration

• A comprehensive taxonomy with which to better make sense of the various emerging classes of software

• An intelligent segmentation of the developing market for knowledge management tools

• A catalogue of competitive software resources and capabilities

• A wake-up call to new products that ought to be now on your radar screen

• A map to the wealth of intelligent new software for managing knowledge, intellectual capital and intangible assets

• A source of software tools for knowledge innovation, that is very thought provoking. It's can be insightful to see what intelligence developers are codifying and congealing in software enablers. If you take away just a few new actionable ideas from this study, they might be of significant value to your organization.

• Reduce your time to knowledge - become smarter sooner
• Lower your cost of acquiring new knowledge
• Be able to make better quality acquisition decisions, and not be blind-sided
  by developments you did not anticipate
• Enhance your awareness of the new competitive knowledge landscape
• Close current gaps in your present knowledge of software for enhancing
  knowledge management -ie. improve your market intelligence
• Be better positioned to harness and leverage powerful new software enablers
• Learn about software tools that can dramatically improve your organization’s ability
  to create, codify, share, and exploit knowledge, in innovative ways
• Lower the risks and the sub-optimization , associated with not knowing what you don't know
• Gain access to a more thorough directory of knowledge enabling software than exists elsewhere
• Develop connections to an expanding network and community of knowledge innovators
• Make the job easier of finding out what knowledge management tools are currently available.

Organizations and Executives who understand the significance of the emergence of the knowledge-based economy. It is for those who want to be aware of the latest developments in knowledge management software, and who need a guide to what state-of-the art, knowledge-oriented software is currently available for practical business use:

• Chief Executive Officers
• Chief Financial Officers
• Chief Knowledge Officers
• Knowledge Architects
• Knowledge Based Engineers
• Business Process Owners
• Professional Knowledge Workers
• Senior IT Executives
• Marketing Executives
• New Product Development Managers
• Competitive Intelligence Professionals
• Human Resource Planners
• System Integrators
• Investment Analysts & Day Traders
• Vendors & Value Added Resellers
• Policy Makers
• Educators
• Corporate Strategists
• Software Developers
• Librarians
• Document Managers
• Consultants
• Professional Associations
• And Others

 

• Knowledge Management - for the enterprise, work-group, or individual
• Enterprise Knowledge Portals
• Knowledge Search & Retrieval
• Competitive Intelligence
• Creativity & Innovation
• Expertise Mapping
• Modeling, Simulation & Games
• Knowledge Innovation Assessment
• Group Collaboration & Knowledge Networking using Internet/Intranet based software tools
• Education & Learning
• Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Call Centre & Relationship Management
• Technical Help Desks
• Social Network Analysis
• Decision Support
• Data Warehousing & Data Mining
• Electronic Performance Support
• Digital Libraries
• Knowledge Push & Publishing
• Project & Configuration Management
• Knowledge Based Engineering
• Intellectual Capital
• Intellectual Property
• Intelligent Agents
• Knowledge Visualization  

The Report and its findings are a culmination of a three year (and ongoing) process of monitoring ,gathering information, and analyzing, news feeds, awards, standards issues, market trends and forecasts, partnerships and alliances, stock market activity, product reviews and lab tests, best practice application case histories, knowledge business models, conferences , seminars, trade shows, consultancies, expert commentary, associations, books, journals, articles, newsletters, newspapers, magazines, interviews, new developments in underlying technologies, web sites, and other sources and matters related to knowledge management and e-business. 

We have approached the new knowledge based frontier with a wider angle  and more of a knowledge lens, than most other analysts. This has allowed us to see emerging developments they don't yet see. . One of our objectives is to transfer to you "the story behind the story" so that you can cut through the hype and the noise and get some traction where there are real opportunities, and points of serious leverage.

Our research is in no way affected by concerns about alienation of software vendors since we are in no way reliant on them for funding.

The Kaieteur Institute
For Knowledge Management

Is an independent, virtual, networked, organization entirely dedicated to research and consulting in the new emerging discipline of knowledge management. The name "Kaieteur" comes from a beautiful waterfall in the interior of Guyana, South America - one of the world’s highest. Think Amazon. For us, it is a dynamic metaphor for ageless, timeless, continuous Flow. We believe the time has come for organizations to do a superior job of harnessing the ongoing flow of knowledge, intellectual capital, and intangible assets, throughout the enterprise.

Clients of our services to-date have included such organizations as The Royal Bank Of Canada, Zurich Life, Sears Canada, The Centre For High Performance, Baush & Lomb, Educational Testing Service, Price Waterhouse, Canadian Certified Management Accounts Association (CMA), PBT Inc, Sun Life Of Canada, Metaconcepts, and Cognis, among others.

Bryan Davis is founder and President Of The Kaieteur Institute For Knowledge Management in Toronto. The Institute is currently conducting advanced independent research into knowledge enabling software, knowledge business models, knowledge-flow, knowledge-based innovation, and competitive intelligence. He has over 20 years of experience in the fields of knowledge management, information management, document management and workflow automation. He is also a Vice President of Knowledge Management Strategies and Research with the Delphi Group Canada / Spearhead Knowledge Management Inc. He is a past President of the Toronto Chapter Of The Canadian Information & Image Management Society