Our business objective
Knowledge Leadership Associates (KnowLead) is committed to the improvement of knowledge and information management (KIM) practices in all sectors of the economy. We do this through the provision of needs based training, strategy facilitation, research and implementation services. Our objective is to create a significant knowledge advantage for our clients; an ideal that can only be realised through the development of mature knowledge leadership in client organisations.
How we operate
KnowLead is a network organization consisting of associates with distinctive expertise in various disciplines of the broad field of KIM. They continually expand their expertise through academic research, professional participation and client engagement. The benefits derived from this approach can only be realised if network flexibility is offset by strong project management and a centralised support system. This is provided by our central management office with responsibility for the coordination of activities across the training and consultation value chain.
Our network organisation provides a cost effective approach to mobilising scarce knowledge resources as and when required to address client needs. The network reconfigures itself for every assignment and brings together a team of associates who contribute their unique expertise to engender learning and initiate innovation. Although our office is in Cape Town we work wherever the assignment takes us.
Who our clients are
Our clients include private, public and civic sector organisations who consult us on diverse issues and whose staff attend the various open and in-house short courses we present in the field of information and knowledge management.
Our products and services
TrainingWe offer a variety of open and customized in-house short courses with duration from one to five days on key aspects of knowledge and information management.In addition we present executive thought leadership seminars of a maximum duration of one day in order to alert our clients to new developments in the field and to stimulate innovation. We are committed to the continuous updating of our courses on the basis of research, case studies and experience.
Consulting and strategy facilitationWe have the collective skills and know-how to assist organisations in developing and implementing a wide range of KIM-related products and services and to facilitate the development and implementation planning of appropriate KIM strategies aligned with the enterprise strategy. Competition in the modern knowledge economy creates challenges that require on-going adaptive change interventions rather than periodic big bang grand strategising. Our solutions are not based on a one-size-fits-all methodology but rather on assisting our clients to make sense of the unique characteristics, complexities and dynamics of their business environment and in the process arrive at appropriate strategies.
ResearchThe blend of academic research and practical management experience of our associates represent a significant research capacity to assist progressive organisations in making sense of emergent issues, trends and complexity in the field of knowledge and information management. In the process we have developed various KIM tools that we apply in strategy facilitation and make available to clients through our training.
