• Do you have problems keeping abreast of new developments, trends and their business implications?
• Confused by thousands of acronyms and their relevance to your business?
• Do you need to raise awareness or initiate a discussion about particular methodology?
• Do you want to better understand benefits and risks and current trends?
• Do you need to get some ideas on how your competitors could use trends as a threat?

Knowledge Age can provide a service to keep organizations updated with methodologies, technologies and trends relevant to the business strategy. This can be on a one-off basis or as a regular proactive service. The information is presented in a lively, business-relevant way as part of interactive briefings.

Our approach

Our approach depends on whether you require a one-off briefing or a regular service.

For a one-off briefing, we would quickly ascertain those trends which are of interest to you. Then we would research and prepare a briefing of an agreed duration. This may be a technical briefing or maybe non-technical, focusing on the business impact of new technologies or methodologies: how can trends be exploited; how will competitors use these as a threat; what are the overall benefits and risks? The briefing would then take place, using a format which facilitates discussion, rather than being a one-way process. The goal at the end is to draw some practical conclusions and actions about the technology or the methodology.

Where a more regular service is required, it is important to determine the strategy of the business to assess which technologies the organization should be monitoring and aware of.

Briefings are scheduled as required, perhaps once each quarter, to keep companies updated about all relevant technology issues which affect their business strategy.

Where required, Knowledge Age can make recommendations about how the company can exploit technology and the skills implications of such implementations.

Some Previous Briefings:

• Why all the buzz about Agile?
• Benefits of PMO.
• Methodologies Quagmire.
• CMMI ROI.
• Agile methodologies and capitalization policy.
• Driving innovation through agility.