Applying The 80/20


Rule for Effective Business Solutions
Professional Education


Knowledge Consultants, Inc. provides Consultative Business Solutions via Knowledge Transfer using your data or sample data during 3 to 10 day working sessions. Time depends on size and scope of effort. Experience shows that sessions are conducted in person for maximum knowledge absorption.

The following 5 core consultative sessions are provided:

  1. Value Quadrant Ranking and Assessment:
    Partitioning solutions into 4 categories (e.g. SWOT the most common and key to strategy formulation) there are over 50 known uses of the Value Quadrant each applying a set of phrase items to each quadrant.
  2. Portfolio Ranking and Assessment:
    (e.g. ranking projects in a portfolio, ranking a portfolio of strategic, innovation, process initiatives and so on) Assessment of programs of portfolios.
  3. Structural Organization Decisions:
    Merger, Acquisition, Divestiture and Elimination probability of success. Comparative analysis of processes, structures, culture and other factors of successful structural change are covered.
  4. Change Management and Assessment:
    of impact for initiatives such as for AI and other technologies, Innovation options, Process Renovation, IT Renovation, Organizational consolidation, Process federation and consolidation and so on.
  5. Organization Alignment:
    Alignment of strategies with external landscape, strategies with tactics and operations, consistency of relationships on Sessions cover the 4 key structures of interest to managing an organization; Landscape, Strategic, Tactical and Operational.

All 5 approaches answer questions that require a decision. Some are of small scope with local impact on a process and some have large scope like strategy linkage to landscape to determine influences on strategic choice. In any event they all require a decision of best value (or some other criteria) to be made.

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