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One of the greatest benefits of KM Executive is that it is an incredibly flexible knowledge management solution with a broad range of applications. Every company benefits from proper operational documentation in time saved for both daily activities and training. Every business needs documented policies to ensure a safe and productive work environment. All organizations benefit from innovating processes and goals.
The bottom line is that every business in every industry saves time, money and enjoys improved moral with proper knowledge management by KM Executive.
Beyond the obvious and universal applications of knowledge management with KM Executive many industries have applied the concepts of documentation and innovation in additional ways. Below are just a few examples of how various industries have found unique specific applications of the KM Executive knowledge management suite.
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Clubs and committees have employed KM Executive to ensure a consistent
transition for new members and leaders by maintaining one source for all
current information. Assignments and responsibilities are made clear by
assigning members to positions. Both new and existing members are provided
instant access to the most current bylaws, procedures, and rules along with
revision histories to identify specific changes from one version of the
documents to the next.
Events are more organized and successful by employing methods for each
subsequent committee to build on the successes and failures of the previous
committee, regardless of the committee membership. The tools available with KM
Executive make it easy for members to provide input on what works and what does
not. This also allows members the freedom to pursue other interests within the
club rather than having to remain on a committee because they have the
experience.
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The construction industry involves many complex building processes from performing individual trades such as carpentry to dealing with municipal and regulatory procedures and requirements. Additionally, construction companies must submit to rigorous insurance requirements in order to maintain liability, loss coverage and state licensing.
With such a great deal of operational and regulatory information required to operate and train organization members effectively, members of the construction industry have found KM Executive to be the perfect knowledge management tool. Administrators document insurance and other liability requirements and assign compliance responsibilities to all field employees, who then must read and indicate their acceptance, protecting construction employers from frivolous claims and coverage exclusions. Regulatory requirements such as permitting and inspections are documented and assigned to office staff to ensure that submissions to municipalities are complete and correct, keeping projects on schedule and saving valuable time and money.
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Various consulting disciplines are responsible for tracking a multitude of
information ranging from client contact information to changing regulatory
guidelines to complex product delivery processes and timelines. Maintaining an
up to date database of this information maximizes productivity and efficiency.
The old paradigm for these organizations required employing many different,
unconnected tools to manage information. Client contact information, project
schedules and assignments, project information trails, policies and procedures,
as well as task assignments were all maintained in different formats. KM
Executive allows all of this data to be accessed with one tool. The result is
quicker access to required information and faster innovation as required
policies and procedures are updated in real time as they are being used to
complete a project.
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Educators have many avenues to share and improve innovative approaches to creating adaptive and effective learning environments. The Internet provides a massive collection of web sites dedicated to lesson planning, educational blogs, disciplinary studies, and nearly every aspect of education. Although many districts share core requirements for policy and curricula with others, each has their own specific implementations and policies.
School administrators, staff, and educators from the University level to Early childhood have discovered that effective knowledge management has much to offer in making their institutions better learning environments. Core curriculum requirements are documented and approved in KM Executive, where educators are able to easily log in and compare requirements with their own proposed additions and changes to quickly identify compatibilities. Where teachers discover great information that can benefits their students, they are able to easily create new documents for review by staff and administration for official inclusion into curriculum and activities. The end result is an informed and interactive educator population working to improve the overall learning environment and productivity of the institution.
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A core concept of KM Executive is to provide a "living" job description for all
positions as well as a company manual. Human Resources professionals in all
industries have been able to save enormous amounts of time by utilizing this
concept. Electronic compliance features provide the quickest way to get
updated information in front of people while tracking and monitoring
compliance. Printing out manuals and job descriptions, getting them signed,
and then filed is no longer required.
Clarity for employees about exactly what their responsibilities are and how
they are to be evaluated promotes a universal increase in productivity.
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Legal offices deal in volumes of information daily, much of which is infeasible to attempt to re-document. Case histories, statutes, and decisions are typically available from state agencies. There is a great deal more, however, that is required to run a law office successfully, such as ensuring conflict detection and avoidance. Identifying clients and their relationships to various previous activities is essential to provide non-biased, non-conflicted service. Additionally, quickly identifying previous similar client requirements, circumstances, and solutions improves productivity and frees legal professionals and staff from tedious research, resulting in time and money saved.
Legal professionals have employed KM Executive as a conflict detection tool by documenting a synopsis of each service provided for a client and using the convenient tagging system to quickly identify which parties, agencies and services were involved with a particular event. Detecting conflicts then becomes a trivial matter of performing a quick document search for client tags to locate where any possible intersections occur. Archaic filing and "conflict card" systems are replaced with convenient time and space saving permanent digital records. Taking this approach one step further, adding comments and documentation about the approaches and outcomes of each situation enables legal professionals to quickly locate and reference previous situations that may be applicable and provide valuable and time saving information.
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