The Speed of Knowledge | KnowledgeVision In talking with a business executive the other day, the topic of the best way to communicate with employees came up. This particular business has locations around the US and in Canada, the UK and Australia. One of their real challenges has been communicating their evolving strategy in a consistent way – getting everyone reading from the same playbook. For most large companies, getting an idea out fast often means sacrificing quality of delivery or impact. You can send a PowerPoint deck with a script, but then you hope someone reads it. You can send video files or a link to something streaming, but sent files clog up your email server, and good quality video takes a while to produce – not the timeliest approach. So we spent some time talking with him about trying out the KnowledgeVision platform to create a compelling message to worldwide staff. Voltaire once wrote, “The perfect is the enemy of the good,” reminding us that speed is a powerful market force.
The Cost of Writing a Business Plan Every business startup, from one person home operations on up, requires some form of business plan. For small to medium businesses, it's possible to write your own business plan for free. For larger business or entrepreneurs with limited time, professional business plans from a consultant or business services firm can cost anywhere from several hundred to many thousands of dollars. What does Business Plan Include? Business plans aren't mysterious or difficult to write, but they can be complicated and time consuming depending on your operation. DIY Business Plans Free and low-cost training -- $50 seminar from Service Corps Of Retired Executives or SCORE of Austin, Texas -- is available from government agencies and other sources to help the startup business owner write their own business plans. Related Reading: How to Format a Business Plan in Writing Business Plans From Private Companies Business plan providers and business consultants are available for hire to complete your business plan.
EFQM Excellence Model and Knowledge Management Implications KM and your business model. Dilip Bhatt, takes a close look at the model developed by the European Foundation for Quality Management, and using the "hybrid skills" he has honed since serving as a geophysicist in the 70's and 80's, links knowledge management strategies directly to business policies and strategies. Bhatt is currently a Principal Consultant with ICL ltd. located in the U.K. where he provides strategic KM consultancy to banks, government agencies, as well as to other business organizations. He's actively assisting in developing ICL's own KM strategy and capacities associated with their cultural changes. EFQM Excellence Model and Knowledge Management Implications by Dilip Bhatt Introduction In spite of all the discussions and publications about Knowledge Management, many business executives are still asking, “What does it mean?” Management by Processes & Facts People Development & Involvement Continuous Learning, Innovation & Improvement Partnership Development
The Different Types of Business Plans This article is part of our “Business Planning Guide”—a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Business plans go by many names: Strategic plans, operational plans, internal plans, and many others. Lately, I’ve been focusing on lean business plans. All of these are types of business plans you may need for your business at one time or another. Let’s take a look at the types of business plans, and their differences. In this article I will cover: The lean business plan that every business ought to have.The standard business plan for those that need to present a plan to outsiders, such as banks or investors.Business plans for startupsOne-page business plansFeasibility plans, internal plans, operations plan, annual plans, and strategic plans. The lean business plan All businesses can use a lean plan to manage strategy, tactics, dates, deadlines, activities, and cash flow. Set the strategy. The standard business plan Business plan for a startup Feasibility plan
KL-ONE There is a whole family of KL-ONE-like systems. In KL-ONE descriptions are separated into two basic classes of concepts: primitive and defined. Primitives are domain concepts that are not fully defined. This means that given all the properties of a concept, this is not sufficient to classify it. They may also be viewed as incomplete definitions. The slot-concept is called roles and the values of the roles are role-fillers. See also[edit] Ontology language References[edit] This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later. What to Pay That Business Planning Consultant, Part 2 - Planning, Startups, Stories In my post here yesterday I started to answer “what should I pay a consultant to develop a business plan for my company?” My first take was about the need for planning process and living with your plan over the long term. The key thought there was: So my first answer to this question is this: don’t pay a consultant to develop a business plan. Do it yourself. Still, if you’re busy, and you believe in division of labor, and you don’t want to do the plan yourself, this doesn’t really answer the question. 1. Let’s assume for a moment that you want exactly what I say is the wrong thing: somebody to write a 10-20-page document you can call your business plan. For that, find a good freelance business plan writer and good luck. I just checked average freelancer rates on freelanceswitch. And if you want spreadsheet knowledge double the price, and if you want financial knowledge and understanding, triple it. Get very specific with the consultant: what services are you buying? 2. 3.
Community Knowledge Management I've created a concept map for my latest research topic of; Community Knowledge Management Systems for Development (CKMS4D). ABSTRACT: This article describes the resources and approach required to build a Community Knowledge Management System (CKMS) in rural developing communities. The increased availability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) through telecentres, cellular telephones, rural wireless networks and community schools have increased the likelihood of partnerships successfully creating community repositories of indigenous knowledge. Through the use of free open source software (FOSS), access to the multimedia of video recorders, audio recorders and digital photography combined with the increasing knowledge of how to use these technologies makes a CKMS within reach for many developing communities.
What to Charge? A Freelancer's Guide to Giving an Estimate Having the chance to bid on a major project is a freelancer’s dream, but can also be a nightmare. If the client hasn’t set a price and you have to come up with your own estimate, it can be very difficult to know how much to charge. If you get your estimate wrong, you can end up missing out on good projects and not picking up enough work. Or, just as bad, you can end up working for too little, and having to complete a project at a rate that won’t even cover your costs. So this tutorial will show you how to get it right. I’ll take you through the process from start to finish, starting with the scenario that you’ve been asked to bid on a project and have no idea what to charge, and finishing with an accurate estimate that takes your own financial situation into account while also considering market rates. The example we’ll use is a writing project, but you can use the same principles for design, photography or any other freelance project. How long will the white paper be?
Polymorphism (computer science) In programming languages and type theory, polymorphism (from Greek πολύς, polys, "many, much" and μορφή, morphē, "form, shape") is the provision of a single interface to entities of different types.[1] A polymorphic type is a type whose operations can also be applied to values of some other type, or types.[2] There are several fundamentally different kinds of polymorphism: If a function denotes different and potentially heterogeneous implementations depending on a limited range of individually specified types and combinations, it is called ad hoc polymorphism. Ad hoc polymorphism is supported in many languages using function overloading.If the code is written without mention of any specific type and thus can be used transparently with any number of new types, it is called parametric polymorphism. In the object-oriented programming community, this is often known as generics or generic programming. John C. In the following example we make cats and dogs subtypes of animals.