A business facing website for Applied Knowledge Research and Innovation is available at http://www.akri.co.uk
This site address the need for a more focussed resource for businesses wishing to discover more about the knowledge services offered by Dr. John L Gordon. Key sections of the site feature business centered information about knowledge study and its relationship with organisational knowledge management alongside information about the software tools andtechniques used in the application of Knowledge Structure Mapping and the related Knowledge Structure Mapping methodology.
The business web site focuses on the use of Knowledge Study and Analysis as an organisational development tool.
This web site akri.org, will remain a knowledge service site that focuses on knowledge and the things that make knowledge work.
A third web site The Way We Know, is being developed to look more directly at how people know things. There is still a lot to do here but suggestions are welcome. If you wish to contribute, please use the contact information provided.
A valuable new approach to knowledge growth and risk reduction analysis has been implemented within the Knowledge Structure Mapping method and the associated tool KST.
An organisation benefiting from the use of the KSM knowledge study approach can now easily add knowledge growth (and risk reduction) monitoring to that capability. This is an important new development for project management and knowledge management. For more information please look at the dedicated page on the AKRI Ltd web site that discusses the knowledge growth monitoring capability.
Knowledge Structure Mapping is a method for visualising a company knowledge resource in order to identify crucial strengths and weaknesses.
The Research Section of the site features a wealth of information about KSM including : A Guide to KSM, details about the Structural Knowledge Analysis Tool used for eliciting and analysing organisational knowledge maps and the KSM methodology.
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KSM Training packages are now available. Find out about study options...
The Knowledge Study method using Knowledge Structure Mapping (KSM) is constantly evolving. It has now greatly improved in the areas of:
The tool used when carrying out a Knowledsge Study (the Knowledge Study Tool KST) can now export a web resource that contains all of the information elicited during the study and a great deal of derived analytical information following a completed study. The web resource can form a permanent record of a study, a reference point for the study, a focus for knowledge development and an information dissemination tool.