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Client Success INDIA A major Indian corporation with a construction division, a call-centers division and a Bollywood division worked closely with Knowledge Planning to rebuild these units as effective profit centers and to instigate a strategic planning format to address changing environments in India and abroad. During the KPC-led early-stage study [2006] major underlying constraints were identified and a new mandate was proposed and adopted leading to a restructuring of the company as a private group of companies. The evolution was successfully completed in May 2008 as our client reported that its profit margins were raised 230% compared to 2006 expectations and that they had achieved a 250% increase in total performance. CHINA Knowledge Planning served as chief adviser to a Chinese corporation with $300 million annual revenues to redefine its strategic plan, acquire US marketing partners, and redefine its product line. As part of that strategic process review and advisory services to the client, KPC sourced candidates for both the Executive Board and the Advisory Board. All requirements were defined, implemented and successfully completed within six weeks. (2007) ISRAEL Knowledge Planning was engaged by an early stage Israeli producer of revolutionary search and data mining/harvesting vehicles to locate and map best product line, best strategic option for company's growth, strategic partners and funding. KPC's comprehensive services led to full funding by a best-fit strategic funds partner and the appointment of several highly qualified Directors to serve on the Corporate Board, including ongoing evaluative and advisory-participation by Knowledge Planning. (2008) |
WELCOME TO KNOWLEDGE PLANNING |
| Knowledge Planning provides strategic evaluations and advisory
services for its clients as they confront globalized markets, transnational
exchanges of technology and innovation, and the multi-dimensional challenges
of creating growth and competitive excellence. Knowledge Planning is a truly global consulting firm with direct experience in more than 80 countries. We help leaders in the public and private sectors make the big decisions on core and collateral strategies, operations and asset deployment, mergers and acquisitions, technology viability, intellectual property valuation and development, corporate security, competitive evolution, and cross-border organization. Our business is making industries, companies, projects, markets and technology more valuable. Our business services for our clients are transnational, transformative, and catalytic. The Knowledge Planning value proposition: Direct Practice Experience in 80 countries; More Disciplines and Dimensions Applied; First and Second Order Analysis for all activities; Immediate Response to Urgent Issues. "Rigorous, continuous evaluation is the strategic planning process." |
KNOWLEDGE PLANNING CORPORATE SERVICES |
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Associates / Resources and Expertise Knowledge Planning maintains an extensive network of Associates as direct participants, consultants and as knowledge-centers. The breadth and depth is global to local, from high-tier constructs to project elements, and available for engagements ranging from immediate applications to long-term evaluation and management. Among those Associates: Uri Ben-Zion, Ph.D., Department of Economics, Ben Gurion University Dr. Ben-Zion is recognized as a thought-leader in Management, Economics and Socio-Economics and has led significant projects and studies that reveal and predict pricing mechanisms, costs structures and societal responses in areas that include banking, governmental policy development and implementation, pension and investments management, and networks. Roger Manela, Ph.D., Social-Worker/Educator, Detroit Schools System, Michigan, USA Dr. Manela has worked closely with Knowledge Planning Corporation on international models of political confederation and democratic participation in economic development, education, social welfare, health service delivery, and conflict resolution in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Israel and the Arab Middle East. He has worked with Dr. Hatto Fischer's, Athens Greece ongoing programs on international and multi-cultural models of education to promote political participation and community involvement among youth. He has been a consultant with Yoram Shohamy, FIS Limited, Cardiff, Wales & Tel Aviv, Israel, on issues related to the role of insurance in economic development. John W. Landgraf, Ph.D., Director, Landgraf and Associates, Ltd. Dr. Landgraf is internationally known for providing cutting edging business intelligence and analysis to clients, including some of the largest financial institutions in the world, to help them expand into foreign markets and avoid illegal financial schemes. Areas include domestic US, Eastern and Western Europe, with special expertise in Russia and former CIS, with such banks as Credit Lyonais, Bank Austria, Barclays, Citibank, and others. He has been honored for his work in international financial risk management through the collection, analysis, and application of critical business intelligence and the application of cultural and personality analysis, Mr. Landgraf has helped numerous companies mitigate the risks of business development and deployment in emerging markets including in the the former Soviet Union and in the Pacific Rim. As Director of Landgraf and Associates Ltd., and I3, Mr. Landgraf's career spanned all aspects of psychological and technical intelligence and security services, and specializing in providing confidential consulting services for navigating the international offshore financial world as well as difficult international markets such as those in Russia and Eastern Europe. Gideon Amihood Gideon Amihood has over thirty years of banking and financial services experience with expertise in trade finance, project finance, private banking, currency exchange and trading systems implementation and co-ordination. He has worked in Europe, Israel and Brazil with major institutions including Citicorp, Credit Lyonnais, Chase Manhattan and Bank Leumi. He is currently Head of Treasury for BNP Parisbas's Tel Aviv operations. Mr. Amihood has an MBA from Cape Town University. Joseph F. Noferi, Managing Director, Compliance Surety Associates Joseph F. Noferi and Ralph L. Dillon are managing directors at Compliance Surety Associates (CSA). Formerly they were the directors of quality compliance and quality engineering (respectively) in the biopharmaceutical group at Pfizer. They have been working in anti-counterfeiting and anti-terrorism for major pharmaceutical companies and the United States government for over 30 years. CSA focuses on proactive Quality Assurance solutions for Regulatory Compliance and to address Product Surety. Quality Assurance is the only function that touches product from the earliest moments of discovery all the way through customer use. It has been effectively underwriting corporate risk since the advent of the GxPs in the 1970s. Proactive Quality solutions and focused strategic integration will define success in the changing landscape of the future. Compliance Surety Associates focuses globally on: Strategic planning for quality compliance, Identification, risk quantification and risk reduction programs, and Supply Chain defense and proactive crisis management. Compliance Surety Associates focuses locally on: Proprietary meta-tools for successful inspection management, and Product Development and Facility Readiness Assessments. (see "Quick Locate" in left margin of this page for two recent articles on Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Terrorism). |
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Activating Local Opportunities Knowledge Planning specializes in activating local opportunities by working closely with mayors, city councils, local entrepreneurs, and with private and public enterprise leaders. Knowledge Planning's skills for these activities are particularly unique and especially related to identifying and evaluating imbedded markets and un-expressed emerging markets that can be grown while incorporating and amplifying the local catalysts. Typical Initial Engagements extend one to six months, to annual engagements (ongoing evaluative and training components) with renewal provisions, and with appropriate minimum entry fees plus achievement and performance incentives.  |
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Director Search Services KPC brings its unique resources, professional networks and insights to the critical selection process for Corporate Board Directors and Members of Advisory Boards. Elevates these critical corporate systems with an emphasis on building complementary and participative units with utility and supportive chemistry as now required in current "real" environment; Addresses skills and couplings that are over-looked and/or under-utilized; and implements its proven methods for bridging and supporting strategic necessities with individual qualifications. Services fee examples: (1) Simple search process (flexible time constraints and scope limited with well defined criteria, $25,000 - $50,000), and (2) More complex search process (urgency, multi-constituent review, corporate re-structure, broad skill sets, operational, financial, management and/or regional experience, strategic alliance, willingness to displace/conjoin current commitments, $100,000 - $250,000) |
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and Enhancement of Intellectual Property Assets Extensive review, analysis and evaluation of existing IP portfolio. Includes Advanced Patent-Fencing Strategies; Fundamental Assessment, Formative and Summative Evaluation of Intellectual Property Assets; Integration of Intellectual Property Assets with the Strategic Plan with both Mid-Course Correction Modes and Technology Transfer Modes within Countries and between Corporate Bodies. Training/Monitoring Systems for IP Development, Deployment, Security, Licensing and Obsolescence. Typical Initial Engagements extend one to six months, to annual engagements (ongoing evaluative and training components) with renewal provisions, and with minimum entry fees $100,000 plus achievement and performance incentives. |
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Projects Based on its expertise and pioneering work on formative evaluation, summative evaluation and technology transfer turn-key operations and our preference for BOT business operations in the private-public enterprises, Knowledge Planning has been a participant in major efforts in the energy areas. The geographical areas of interest included most recently the off shore coastal areas of North West Africa and Brazil. The projects included: 1. security planning including four governments fleets [e.g., African international waters] 2. industrial preparation, and 3. piping and other delivery optimization. Knowledge Planning was a central participant in negotiation with numerous stakeholders and involved in the full gamut of financial planning and execution including the activation of public financing in the USA and elsewhere. These projects, some of which are still on-going, have been successful, notwithstanding the early minimalist expectation. |
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Threat Analysis Extensive review, analysis and evaluation of existing Security Systems, coupled with KPC's unique resources, professional networks and insights to this critical corporate component. Security Threat Analysis and Bayesian Forecasting Methodology; Compiling and Protecting Your Mission Critical Value Generators; SecureData Transfers across all devices; Individual, Corporate and Special Purpose Communications versus Useful and Available Technology; Evaluation of Business Strategies to Identify Data Security Requirements and Implications of Non-Secure Access Modalities. Prevention and Minimization of Security Breach and Recovery. Vendor and Technology independent. Typical Initial Engagements extend one to six months, to annual engagements (ongoing evaluative and training components) with renewal provisions, and with minimum entry fees $100,000 plus achievement and performance incentives. |
| >> Search/Selection: Directors for Corporate Boards and Members of Advisory Boards >> International Strategy >> The Logical Framework in a Project Management System >> Strategical Planning for the Modern Region and City >> Catalytic Approach to Unique Product Development in the South >> Complementarity Assessment >> Fugitive Technologies >> Four-Corner Engagement: Corporations, Governments & Private/Public Enterprises >> Of Mice and Men… A New Business Model May Help You Thwart Counterfeiting and Return Profitability by Joseph F. Noferi and Ralph L. Dillon >> Defending the Supply Chain - Lessons from Sun Tzu by Joseph F. Noferi and Ralph L. Dillon |
WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS - CURRENT PROGRAMS |
| Programs currently available in Presentation,
Workshop and Seminar formats for Leadership Teams, Groups and Conferences
include: Security Threat Analysis - Forecasting and Strategic Response (Seminar, Presentation, Workshop and Evaluative/Training Curriculum - Introduction and Advanced) Discussion topics include Security Threat Analysis and Bayesian Forecasting Methodology; Compiling Your Real Top Ten Value Generators; Security Issues for Data Transfers in a Portable Device Landscape; Individual, Corporate and Special Purpose Communications versus Useful and Available Technology; Evaluation of Business Strategies to Identify Data Security Requirements and Implications of Non-Secure Access Modalities. Illustrates dozens of current-relevant disasters that could have been prevented or minimized in contexts of different sectors and countries Activating Opportunities in Emerging Markets (Seminar, Presentation) Presents the Art of Remote Sensing in Business, Especially Related to Global Transactions; Identifying and Evaluating Imbedded Markets inside the BRIC and Emerging Markets; Identifying and Evaluating Emerging Markets Inside the BRIC and Emerging Markets; Using Local Catalysts Sovereign Funds and Future Funds - Roles/Strategies for Investment Partners (Seminar, Presentation) Addresses the Crossroads of Soverign Funds, Future Funds, Investment Strategies and Corporate Strategies. How Your Business Can Take Advantage of and Control These Opportunities and Evolve as the Funds Evolve Evaluation and Enhancement of Intellectual Property Assets (Seminar, Presentation, Workshop and Evaluative/Training Curriculum - Introduction and Advanced) Includes Advanced Patent-Fencing Strategies; Fundamental Assessment, Formative and Summative Evaluation of Intellectual Property Assets; Integration of Intellectual Property Assets with the Strategic Plan with both Mid-Course Correction Modes and Technology Transfer Modes within Countries and between Corporate Bodies Cross Platform Technologies and Opportunities (Seminar, Presentation, Workshop and Evaluative/Training Curriculum - Introduction and Advanced) Digital Media, Clean Tech and Med Tech in the Major Markets (US, Europe, India, China, Russia, Brazil, Israel, Japan and Korea) and in the Emerging Second and Third World Economies Defining Global and Local Markets (Seminar, Presentation, Workshop and Evaluative/Training Curriculum - Introduction and Advanced) Differentiating Data and Noise in Projecting the Future; What is the Role and the Options of Recruiting Local Catalysts in Different Markets to Move the Client's Products or Assets for Full Benefit; Actualized Examples Include the Use of Militaries for Sustainable Business in Second and Third World Countries. All Workshops, Seminars and Presentations are designed to engage the participants and are substantive, corrective and solution oriented. Strategic Reviews and Assessments are cross-platform integrating relevant topics in Security, Market Development, Technology, Intellectual Property and Forecasting. All Presentations are customized to the client's/audience's focus and needs. Formats include Panel Moderator-Participant, One Day and Two Day Workshops and Seminars, Advisory Engagements and recurring Evaluation-Training Sessions. Stipend, fee and/or engagement basis. |
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