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Warmoes & Associates - Knowledge Solutions

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Introducing our Services

Warmoes & Associates coaches and educates your teams to improve your learning and knowledge work. 
Warmoes focuses on specialised services that require a thorough mastery of human mental processes and the way software can yield real added value.
bulletWe coach you and your teams to
  1. Co-create a KM Vision and implementation Roadmap, including the identification of Strategic Knowledge Domains
    set up  the
    knowledge management function and 
    coach the new knowledge manager and
    Communities of Practice
    This may include that Warmoes temporarily takes on the role of Knowledge Manager ad interim
    There are 3 stages
    bulletSet up Knowledge Management (see also: How to start with  Knowledge Management?)
    Identify and implement Quick Wins. This typically takes 2 quarters.
    bulletCoach the expansion and maturation: new communities and teams... 
    Coach Managers and Business Process owners to perform their role in Knowledge issues in their departments and processes.
    Introduce ICT tools and knowledge assets
    Coach Top Management to determine the core competencies to improve the business strategy
    and deploy to and align with the operational Business Processes and Communities of Practice
    Co-monitor the experiences to suggest improvements. This typically takes 4 quarters.
    bulletAudit and review. In this stage, Warmoes comes only once every month or so. He checks whether the client continues to be on track. Of course new insights from Warmoes are transferred. 
  2. Radically improve knowledge intensive business processes
    ex. reduce the difference between calculated and actual cost of a design
    by 50%
    ex. 80% of customer questions must be answered in 30 seconds
    ex. reduce the time to make correct offers for complex equipment by 80%
  3. design and optimise your Intranet or Portal so that it supports knowledge work and management
    users get relevant documents and information in seconds.
    How to create a useful and stable Taxonomy?
    How to set up the
    content management  processes so that the content is up to date, correct, relevant and useful?  
    ex. in a dealers network or shop
    in a bank office
    ex. in a help desk

  4. ex. organisationwide intranet
    This includes technologies such as collaboration systems, document management systems, social software (Blogs, Wikis, Syndication), Search...
  5. make the unconscious or tacit knowledge of your experts explicit into models used in coaching, training, multimedia documents...  
    to distribute mental best practices and new knowledge
    .

    ex. How to avoid the knowledge loss when an expert retires
    ex. Capture the experience and "what they don't teach you at school" of plant operators
  6. create advisory software tools to increase the productivity of frequent knowledge work.
    ex. Let layman in a helpdesk solve a technical problem in 30 sec
    ex. Find and calculate detailed investment subsidies
    ex. Advice on building loans
    These advisory tools are more and more used on the web and Intranet in the context of E-commerce.
    They contain explicit knowledge models created in 4.
    These knowledge models are coded in software based on techniques from Artificial Intelligence such as expert systems rule based systems, decision trees, fuzzy logic, statistics, neural networks, genetic algorithms...
 
bulletWarmoes had developed a special formula for team learning:
A-teams or Architecture teams.
 
bulletAt the basis of our success lies a thorough diagnosis allowing a maximum added value for a minimal cost. What are the areas of improvement?
bulletNot enough knowledge? Wrong knowledge?
Enough knowledge, but hidden in too few heads?
Knowledge is explicit, but not available where it is needed?
Knowledge is distributed, but not well used?
Knowledge is well used, but not productively?
bulletSoftware tools? Documentation? Communication devices between knowledge workers?
Business Processes of the knowledge work?
Education and coaching?
Culture: Values and habits of knowledge sharing?
Shared vision on purpose and importance of core competencies?
bulletThe solutions take the latest insights into account from domains such as knowledge management, core competencies and the learning organisation.
 

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bulletOur role as a coach for your team
bulletClient stories told by themselves
bulletCompany profile
 

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