Knowledge Master cognitive maps are the ideal
resource for knowledge management, offering the
knowledge worker (knowledge manager or knowledge engineer) a graphical
interface that permits direct observation and eases
perception and direct manipulation of project
organization and its sequences, cognitive functions,
semantic search functions and data searches,
templates for business intelligence and the possibility
of contents management. The fact that the project
structure is made of an organization of activities,
their relations and corresponding values,
spontaneously associates KM's cognitive maps to both
knowledge management and project
management.
These are precisely the tools the project
manager needs, that in Knowledge Master are integrated
with the unavoidable data tables for project organization.
Table
structures are defined by the project administrator.
Just like in Knowledge Management, the project
manager can personalize its tables with the
necessary data types. This way, a strategic
association of knowledge and data can be obtained,
useful in more than one organization or business
type: The integration of logic, graphics and data
tables.
It's difficult to find
an activity sector (from businesses to elementary
schools and libraries) where projects are not made.
Projects always require analysis, organization and
control and consume time and human, material
and financial resources. A relevant feature of
project organization is timeliness, one of the most
important objectives of control. Many functions in
Knowledge Master (v. 13.0) have this scope. The
prestige of an organization so much depends on
its efficacy in project fulfillment. After all, most
activities in an organization can be considered "projects".
Besides improving
efficacy, a correct project management permits
saving time, human resources and money.
Knowledge Master offers functions that
resolve most problems in project management:
- Classification
of project elements. This facilitates the
selection of classes
and data on which to search and calculate. Classes
can be graphically identified, for fast
perception.
- Searching on
specific fields.
- With Knowledge
Master you can used layers (dimensions).
Organizing it into layers, a project can be of
any size, and you'll always have it "on sight".
- Numerical
calculations on data elements and columns. Make
calculations changing project values to verify
project alternatives, a sort of dynamic
simulation. What would happen if the value
of X would be...?
- Analyze data with
the most common statistical functions.
- Creation of
project schedule with several precision options.
- Export "the
project" to important exchange formats such as
XML, HTML,
text, etc.
- Export project
data tables to CSV format (accepted also by
Excel and by most database systems).
- Identify,
select and
valorize paths in the project activity network.
- Access to ODBC
databases.
- Creation of
the project organization interactively or from
external sources such as XML or structured text.
- Creation of
project organization from a generic project template in
Knowledge master that can also be adapted to
specific project requirements.
To whom is it
useful project management with Knowledge Master?
- To organizations.
- to businesses, for
conventional projects (construction, etc.) and
knowledge management projects.
- To non-profit
organizations.
- To libraries and
Information Centers.
- To consultants, for
their own projects or their clients'..
- To consultants and
professionals.
- It's very useful to
schools and universities that present matters related to
management and projects and organizations.
- To whoever must
analyze, organize and control projects.
Knowledge Master also offers in its
contextual help, a guide about project initiation
and a specialized glossary, that are for sure useful
to both the expert and the novice project manager.
KM is autonomous, it doesn't need the presence of other
programs for project management..
KM enterprise license users
receive a specialized support service on project
management.