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Knowledge Consultants, Inc. has a management team and staff to meet your needs.  Either an instructional team or a consultative team can provide the business solution you need.

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KCI has various industry experienced and knowledgeable course instructors providing you with insights, tools, and techniques to improve your personal skills.  Our lead and subject experts help you to gain the knowledge needed to apply course content.

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Understanding the structure of an organization today means understanding  the relationships between the various elements of the organization, its partners, or other businesses. Each organization utilizes different viewpoints that are part of the normal operations of running the organization.  Looking at it from an architectural perspective, it may include: the business environment, the perceived market needs, product / service architecture, the process architecture, and supporting architectures. 

KCI courses address builiding the understanding of how to integrate these architectural perspectives.

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Business analysis depends on the successful application of applying different types of analytics: financial, quantitative, and descriptive (qualitative).

KCI's courses are focused upon building the skills necessary to operating within an organization utilizing any of one of these skills.

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Knowledge Consultants (KCI) offers a number of contemporary courses.  They are:

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Thursday, 27 January 2011 18:00

Who are We?

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Knowledge Consultants, Inc. (KCI) and Innoverto FZ LLC, a UAE based Training and Event Management company, today announced a partnership bringing KCI’s 12 years leading training and certification programs in the Middle East to Innoverto’s global network of executive training courses in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and outside the UAE throughout the Gulf region and Middle East.

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 Knowledge Consultants, Inc. (KCI), is proud to announce a new, strategic partnership with FEAC™, the premier training and certification institution for Enterprise Architects. Through the agreement, KCI will offer its certification programs through the FEAC Institute’s expanded certification program. KCI pairs its industry leading professional services and solutions to improve business performance with FEAC’s university relationships with California State University and National University to provide certified professionals with additional educational opportunities.

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A Little bit about us

Knowledge Consultants, Inc. (KCI) is a professional services firm founded in 1984. KCI provides educational, techniques, and analytical tools to help an organization improve its business performance to achieve success.  This is done by applying a combination of tools, techniques, methods, consulting, and education services that enable an organization.  Our experience and training methods focus on providing knowledge, insight, and skills to use analytics in achieving and maintaining corporate excellence.

Initially, KCI had consulting service areas in strategic information technology (IT) planning, IT management and assessment, knowledge management, logistics systems, and effective use of technology in businesss.  Over the years, these services expanded and included a comprehensive six (6) week course focused on enterprise analysis.  In the late 1980's, KCI added IT Architecture and Business Process Management, Measurement and Analysis to its consultative services and developed additional training capabilities.  In the early 1990's, KCI began to focus equally on training as well as consulting services.  Starting in 2000's, KCI expanded its training efforts internationally into Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Sunday, 04 August 2013 11:21

Knowledge Management - KMI Event

Developing strategy provides direction in terms of what we are going to do which is a responce to the business environment, while the business architecture defines the structure of how we intend to execute the delivery of goods or services into that market. The 2 core enablers of execution today are knowledge and the digital part of the enterprise or as most people say "IT".

Effective use and management of knowledge depends on the linkage to the business architecture.

The business architecture is made up of several types of models that contain language phrases. These phrases can be used in analytics to assess the impact of change, rank options and compare alternatives. These phrase analytics provide a link between strategy, process management, and knowledge. There are 5 categories of models that form the business architecture. A key category of business architecture is the knowledge model of the business. Constructing and analyzing the knowledge model is core to understanding impact of change on the knowledge of the enterprise.

Learn more about becoming a Certified Knowledge Practioner at Knowledge Management Institute's Showcase Event in Washington, D.C. on September 10-11th. We will be presenting at the event on the 10th.

Knowledge Consultants, Inc. and Innoverto Announce Partnership to Bring Leading Professional Training and Certification Programs to Middle East in 2014


Libertyville, IL DEC. 20, 2013 – Knowledge Consultants, Inc. (KCI) and Innoverto FZ LLC, a UAE based Training and Event Management company, today announced a partnership bringing KCI’s 12 years leading training and certification programs in the Middle East to Innoverto’s global network of executive training courses in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and outside the UAE throughout the Gulf region and Middle East.

Beginning in March 2014, KCI will provide professionals in the Middle East the opportunity to develop core strengths and professional certification in the following areas:

  • Process Management
  • Analytical Techniques for Business
  • Business and IT Architecture
  • Business Analysis
  • IT Management
  • Business Performance Management

“Professionals in the Middle East are looking to continue their education, improve their careers and remain competitive,” KCI President Frank Kowalkowski said. “This partnership with Innoverto will allow us to continue making a difference in part of the world.”

All of the courses KCI offers through the partnership will be delivered through Innoverto Training (both public and in-house), and are available for registration through the Innoverto website www.innoverto.com. The partnership is being launched with two courses in March 2014, starting with a Certification in Essential Predictive Analytics

“We believe that through highly qualified business training, we are offering professionals around the world the priceless power of knowledge to drive the fulfillment of their goals,” said Christianna Tsiterou, co-founder and managing partner of Innoverto. “This partnership with KCI is an important avenue for spreading that knowledge, and we are thrilled to be working with them.”

About Innoverto
Innoverto is a corporate training and events management company based in Dubai, UAE. Through partnerships with leading organizations worldwide, we offer high quality business trainings including certified courses throughout the Middle East. As an events management company, we specialize in bringing world-class speakers to the region for lectures and seminars. For more information visit: www.innoverto.com

The Tier Approach

Description:

To compete today a business must be agile and adaptable. Organizations especially large entities such as governments, global enterprises, large non-profits and educational institutions have a need to understand their structure. Understanding the structure of an organization today means understanding all the relationship between the various components of the organization or business. The key approach to this understanding is the development and use of business architecture.

The interoperability of organizational components depends on how well the architecture is known and documented. In the past, this depended on the corporate knowledge in people’s heads. The economic situation today has pressured organizations to merge operations, consolidate, divest and re-arrange their basic components. Loss of staff also means loss of knowledge of how the organization works. Assessing impact of changes depends on the preparation of models used to describe the organization and the analytics available to conduct an assessment of changes. A lack of architecture documentation means that re-structuring decisions are made with limited knowledge of the impact of change and therefore have greater uncertainty for success.

The business architecture includes the:

  1. product architecture,
  2. process architecture for delivery of products or services and
  3. the enabler architectures to make the processes efficient and effective.


The largest of these, the Information Technology (IT) architecture, is critical to the effective operation of the business. IT has a common set of technology components that interact with the business to enable processes. Processes in turn support the products and services. Changes in either organization direction or IT architecture can therefore impact the enterprise in both positive and negative ways.

Duration: 4 days

Description:

Whether thinking in terms of documents, ideas, or actions, a simple and efficient method of capturing, locating, articulating, using and managing content and knowledge in the enterprise is needed. Good document and content management increases the range of available business solutions, uncovers hidden business strengths, represents an opportunity for value-added supplier relations and brings a working meaning to the idea of intellectual capital.

Knowledge is the end result of efficient and effective delivery and use of content in the enterprise. In simple terms, good knowledge management promotes better business performance. The enterprise of the future is knowledge based. Success in content management requires careful attention to the relationship of documents, their content and the knowledge that evolves from that content. All of these are parts of the intellectual property of the enterprise.

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Frank Kowalkowski is President of Knowledge Consultants, Inc., a firm focusing on business performance, business analytics, data science, expert systems, big data, business intelligence, predictive analytics, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, and statistical techniques. He has over 30 years of line management and consulting experience in a wide variety of industries. He has been involved with many projects both as a user and purveyor of business analytics. He has worked projects in state and federal government dealing with back office operations, legislative compliance and regulatory compliance. He has worked on the federal level with the national defense department, Coast Guard for drug interdiction and other projects. His background includes a number of industries including manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, banking, insurance, financial institutions, health care, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas and chemicals.

Strategic performance development consultant, trainer and instructional designer with over 15 years of experience in Learning and Development field. Throughout those years, Antonella has collaborated with several large financial institutions in banking, wealth and asset management, and insurance. As a Technology Learning Specialist, Antonella has successfully designed, developed and delivered in-person and online training courses that promote the effective transfer of technology skills to the job. She is also a seasoned specialist in the areas of performance improvement, sales and customer service. She has a proven track record of transforming business processes and workflows with an international banking institution, enhancing not only the customer experience, but also increasing the potential for sales through streamlined interdepartmental communications and processes. From large scale webinars to classroom and personalized coaching, Antonella is committed to enhancing talent, productivity and efficiency using innovative approaches while building collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders., Antonella has earned the CompTIA CTT+ Classroom Trainer certification through her mastery of adult learning principles.

Jayne Logan has over 40 years of project experience. She has been responsible for successfully delivering software and business process improvements across financial, insurance, engineering and non-profit industries. At a major international bank, she was responsible for financial systems worldwide. After successfully replacing the entire suite of financial systems, monthly consolidated financial reporting timeline decreased from 3 months to 1 week. At a major insurance company, she was responsible for the successful delivery of the Client Portal product which allows clients to securely access their insurance and engineering data on-line. She has delivered several new and enhanced products to field engineers working with insurance clients. In her spare time, she donates her project management skills to help non-profit organizations succeed in their endeavors. She has a degree in Mathematics and her Project Management International (PMI) certification.

Phil GriffithsPhil Griffiths is founder and CEO of Business Risk Management Ltd, A Chartered Accountant and an Associate of the Institute of Internal Auditors, he has over 30 years' experience in risk management, internal audit and fraud prevention as practitioner, professional adviser, facilitator and trainer. Phil is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts in the fields of strategic risk management and Internal Audit.

Phil is recognized as an accomplished and charismatic facilitator, trainer and lecturer having advised many renowned organizations, coordinated top-level events and addressed national and international conferences on a wide range of critical business topics. He has led risk management programs for many hundreds of private and public sector clients including, development of risk strategies and facilitated workshops plus assistance with implementation.

He has developed and delivered regular training courses on risk management, fraud prevention and investigation and best practice internal audit across the world.

He is a renowned author – his recent book ‘Risk Based Auditing’ is an international best seller.

Phil has published research into many aspects of internal audit and risk management best practice, including “Strategic Risk management” “The Need to Co-ordinate Assurance Providers” and “The Expectations of Chief Executives towards Internal Audit and its future”.

He is in continual demand to speak at the most prestigious events on risk management and internal audit.

Michael G. MillerMr. Miller is a senior instructor with Knowledge Consultants, Inc. and has over 30 years of IT experience primarily in banking, securities and insurance as well as experience in retail, telecommunication and pharmaceutical industries. He started in his career computer operations, programming and systems design, and then moving on to consulting roles in enterprise architecture and business intelligence. Michael’s previous consulting roles include National Director of Enterprise Architecture and Business Intelligence, Executive Consultant CRM COE, and Principal - Management Consultant.

He holds four master degrees (Business Administration, Project Management, Telecommunications Management and Information Systems Management) and has done over two years of doctoral work in Knowledge Management. He is a board member of the Data Management Association – Chicago Chapter, a Certified Business Process Management Professional (ABPMP) and a Certified TOGAF Enterprise Architect. He is presently a Global Information Architect for a major global bank.

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