Frank Kowalkowski
CEO KCI, Inc.
Knowledge Consultants, Inc.
Value Management Leveraging AI
Knowledge Consultants, Inc.
Value Management Leveraging AI
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. We apply 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.
KCI supports not only where you are now, but where you are going
Emerging, Advanced and Enabling analytics and methods of AI based analysis are crucial to organization success today. KCI focuses on the practical application of AI business analysis as well as traditional business analysis. Our goal is to expand your data driven capabilities and improve strategic alignment with operations. The result is a path to high level operational performance.Applying rapid business analysis techniques improves your ability to compete.
Training your staff with new and better capabilities improves your competitive position.
Business Alignment
Business Alignment provides key benefits to management. It provides insight into the organization focus on strategic goals. It also promotes better management of the investment in technology and processes. Achieving the outcomes has been costly and time-consuming in the past. Current technology and analytics are cost effective and timely for management alignment insight.
Connecting the Dots , Landscape to Operations
Business alignment success is impacted by misalignment of goals and resistance to change. It needs an end-to-end approach for the best results. As part of strategic planning or business architecture, impact analysis problems are overcome. Management value is improved through better analysis and foresight in making more likely and reliable decision outcomes and reducing risk.
Strategy Management
Every organization, large, medium, or small, does some form of direction setting. The larger the organization scope and longer the projected view, the more important and insightful the planning analysis needs to be. Success depends on good situation analysis.
Adding Analytic AI Rigor to Strategy Development
Strategy management provides increased adaptability to external change using situation analysis that uses renovated landscape and SWOT analysis. These two key parts of strategy management are improved by using better analytics and careful application of AI techniques. Revamped situation analysis points to valued options for organization direction using emerging and orchestrated analytics with current AI capabilities for timely and cost-effective results.
Portfolio Analysis and Assessment
Key benefits of portfolio management come from generalization to managing of many different collections of things like investments, processes, strategies, capabilities, applications, technologies and so on. Portfolio analysis provides better alignment of initiatives with corporate interests and identifies underperforming or redundant efforts.
A Rational Approach to Alternatives
Applying general portfolio analysis helps reduce competing interests with better prioritization and reallocating assets from legacy efforts to those that are more in line with strategic interest. Advanced analytics such orchestrated analytic agents reduce the cost and time needed for a more complete analysis. This also results in mitigating risk.
Mergers and Acquisitions
There are many expected benefits from structural changes such as merger, acquisition, consolidation, and divestiture. Key benefits are economies of scale, diversification of products and markets, access to modern technologies and better financial performance. Mergers and Acquisition have been studied for many years and consistently show a poor success rate, somewhere near 40+%.
Bringing Rigor to Structural Risk
Along with the structural change benefits come some issues. First among the issues are overlapping ownership and conflicting priorities. These are exposed through AI type analytic insight. Culture clashes have been proven critical for consolidating business components or an acquisition. AI driven culture analysis techniques work to resolve this issue as well as integration challenges of systems, processes, policies, infrastructures, and data sets.
New Horizons in Business Analysis
The advantage of quality business analysis on strategic, tactical, and operational levels is the better identification of problems and opportunities. Good vertical and horizontal business analysis are done by an augmented business analyst. They use newer analytics and AI capabilities that provide the basis for data driven decision making. This in turn supports increased efficiency in business processes.
Evolving Strategic and Tactical Business Analysis
The recurring issue in business analysis is the major focus on operational analysis. While critical to execution performance it is subject to misdirection if the strategic and tactical analysis is incomplete or of inferior quality. In many cases there is no tactical analysis. Standardizing on the use of newer orchestrated analytic agents provides the basis for quality analysis regardless of methodology.
The Resurgence of BPM
Processes are changing today at a rapid pace in several diverse ways. The most prominent is the use of AI capabilities for increased adaptability. RPA, Intelligent processes, process augmentation and other emerging capabilities have prompted a resurgence in the focus on process. A key goal is increased compliance and risk mitigation through higher automation, adaptability, and digital transformation.
The Promise of AI and Emerging Analytics
Resistance to change is a key issue in process change. Fear of job displacement promotes resistance to change. Informed and capable process teams, project leaders, and managements are needed. Their education and understanding of change issues alleviates tension and resistance of employees to change. Knowledge transfer of recent key applications of AI and newer analytic approaches provide the organization with improved process performance and quality.
New Resource Highlights
Monday, January 30, 2023
Conversations on Management and Technology A series of discussions among a group of practitioners...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Frank Kowalkowski will be speaking at the IRM/UK Business Analysis conference in London September...
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