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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Managing Org. Knowledge
Org. Knowledge and Info.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Managing Single-Time Efforts
Project Mgmt Fundamentals
Modern Project Management
Creating Quality Plans
Great Ideas!
PROCESS MODELING
Understanding Bus. Reqs.
Modeling Business Processes
Reengineering Bus. Processes
Designing Business Solutions
Scheduling
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Tryon and Associates workshops and seminars focus on advanced thought and practical use of Knowledge Management, Project Management and Process Modeling.
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
With over 25 years of examining knowledge age implications on work, Chuck Tryon launched an effort in 2006 to focus specifically the synergies between naturally occurring projects, project management and the emerging discipline of knowledge management. Following intense research, study and practical application, Tryon and Associates is offering new and innovated training opportunities for all levels of your organization. These concepts will help your organization implement a formal, practical strategy for Knowledge Management.
MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE
A Project-Centric Approach to Knowledge Management
Organizations of all types and sizes are struggling to address the widening gap between what they must know to thrive and an unprecedented loss of organizational knowledge. New market opportunities and improved technologies create a growing demand for new knowledge. At the same time, seasoned workers are retiring at rates never seen in modern business and finding adequate replacements is becoming more difficult.
Knowledge Management has emerged with the goal to help organizations recognize, retain and share organizational knowledge. Knowledge Management is dominating discussions in executive suites around the world. Yet for many, this topic remains conceptual and intangible.
Part of this breakdown is the KM focus on global or encyclopedic knowledge, something most organizations assume. This presentation focuses on the three elements of knowledge that must be discovered, refined, retained and used by modern organizations. This organizational knowledge should be emphasized in a Knowledge Management strategy.
Early efforts to address this challenge resulted in large, expensive projects to acquire repository software products and the technology needed to capture paper-based information. While electronic document management systems are valuable, they only capture a record of what has happened, not why or how. Today's KM world has evolved into a much larger understanding with emphasis on the deep knowledge of an organization that is vital to their growth or survival..
In this fresh and innovative presentation, noted speaker, author and seminar leader, Chuck Tryon of Tryon and Associates, examines the differences between global and organizational knowledge. He also explains the elements proving successful in his work with major clients. Lastly, Mr. Tryon offers a number of very tangible steps to consider when implementing a Knowledge Management strategy.
These concepts are the result of over twenty-five years of research by Mr. Tryon into implications of the Knowledge Age and four years of targeted research and trials of new KM strategies.
Additional information on Mr. Tryon and this approach to Knowledge Management may be found on the home page of www.TryonAssoc.com. For additional reading, download “Bridging the Knowledge Gap Parts One and Two” and “Project-Based Knowledge Management” from the Tryon and Associates website.
ORGANIZING KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION
Principles and Practices for Enhanced Knowledge Retrieval
With the need to store, share and retrieve knowledge, organizations commonly invest in sophisticated document management technology. While these products provide needed capabilities, the shier volume of stored documents quickly leads to disappointing results. It becomes increasingly difficult to sort through the jungle of documents, images, graphics and anything else that has been stored. Even the original authors face a daunting task finding their own contributions. This leads to frustration, wasted search time, duplicated records and lost efficiency.
In “Organizing Knowledge and Information,” Chuck Tryon explains how to correct these problems by 1) observing basic design concepts, 2) documenting more effective metadata and 3) applying proven structural strategies.
The seminar provides the principles and practices that bring order to your automated repositories. The course draws on proven document management and knowledge management concepts so that it is consistent with modern KM thought..
These concepts are the result of over 30 years of designing knowledge inventories and creating databases. Additional information on Mr. Tryon and this approach to Knowledge Management may be found on the home page of www.TryonAssoc.com. For additional reading, download “Bridging the Knowledge Gap Parts One and Two” and “Project-Based Knowledge Management” from the Tryon and Associates website.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERIES
To expand market share and retain current clients, modern organizations are increasingly dependent on the ability to 1) create and introduce new products and services, and 2) refine existing products. The primary mechanism for this aggressive product strategy is to launch special efforts called projects. Each project represents a focused expense of time and resources intended to accomplish a specific objective. While well intended, these projects often spiral out-of-control, wasting the invested funds and adding significant stress to the Project Team. Tryon and Associates offers a modern, accelerated and concise Project Management Curriculum to answer this challenge. Here is a proven seminar series that may be attended by the entire organization. The content is significant for everyone from executives to team members and may be applied to a wide range of projects.
MANAGING SINGLE-TIME EFFORTS
Project Management in the Knowledge Age
Projects are the life-blood of any organization attempting to introduce new or improved products and services to their customers. These projects often represent significant challenge and risk due to the complexities and pressure of modern product development. This highly popular Tryon and Associates seminar provides a repeatable strategy to manage these projects. The course provides a fresh view of the Project Management discipline by incorporating the realities of today's information age. Managing Single-Time Efforts: Project Management in the Knowledge Age places special emphasis on the roles and responsibilities that must be performed throughout the entire Project Life-Cycle. This three and a half day seminar emphasizes Project Initiation when a project is begun and introduces the use of a Project Charter to establish and maintain project direction. This seminar is intended for the total business and has proven successful with a wide range of organizations and project types.
PROJECT CHARTER REVIEW
Beyond Managing Single-Time Efforts
Managing Single-Time Efforts provides comprehensive training on the content and organization of a Project Charter. First-time authors, however, are often unsure of their initial efforts. Seminar attendees may leave the classroom enthusiastic and eager to apply their new knowledge. Because these ideas are unfamiliar, your people may become confused and even stop trying to apply their training. The application of seminar topics may become inconsistent and isolated in your organization. A Project Charter Review can help your people validate their seminar training and lay the foundation for future work.
Seminar attendees should be given assignments to create a Project Charter immediately following the seminar training. These documents are then forwarded to Tryon and Associates. A Tryon and Associates instructor reviews each of these documents adding comments and suggestions. The instructor then meets one-on-one with your people to explain these notes.
This process will help your organization rapidly refine their use of the Project Charter. It will reinforce good practices and prevent the spread of misunderstandings.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS
Basic Skills for Managing Single-Time Efforts
As organizations become more sensitive to the need to control their single-time efforts, they discover a demand for education in many of the fundamental skills required by Project Managers. This three and a half day seminar provides a workshop on a suite of foundational skills such as breaking down the work that must be performed, estimating the effort, planning the work, scheduling the work, evaluating intermediate project products, tracking actuals and reporting status.
MODERN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Prelude to Managing Single-Time Efforts
The ability to manage projects is a critical corporate and individual skill set. This seminar helps your organization prepare for a comprehensive project management initiative. The content of this one-day session includes topics of special interest to senior management along with an overview of the total project life-cycle presented in the Managing Single-Time Efforts course. Modern Project Management is helpful as a lead into the Managing Single-Time Efforts workshop or as a stand-along introduction for senior management.
CREATING QUALITY PLANS
Defining Criteria for Project Success
One of the most innovative planning concepts offered by Tryon and Associates is the creation of a Quality Plan. This document gives context and meaning to the deliverables listed on the Project Schedule. When using a deliverable-based strategy for planning, work decompositions provide the type of work planned and the intermediate deliverable or deliverables that will be produced. As these deliverables are the basis for proving project progress, it is vital that each deliverable is well-defined. The Quality Plan provides the criteria to certify actual project location and gives meaning to any planned vs. actual evaluation.
GREAT IDEAS
Capturing Inspired Thought To Dramatically Improve Your Business
Many well meaning organizations are entangled in a contradiction of their own good intentions. On one hand, they refer to their people as "their most valuable asset," and yet seem to do everything they can to prove they really don't mean a word they are saying. What their employees want, as much as good pay and job security, is to be heard. Employees who were hired based on their education, passion, wisdom and problem-solving abilities often find their skills are seemingly ignored by their organization. Frustration builds when these people recognize a vast array of potential improvements their organization could make ... if only they were listening. To further complicate this dilemma, senior management is fully aware of their responsibility to lead their organization. But the view from the top often obscures matters that are much more obvious at lower levels in the business. Great Ideas is a fun, challenging and very popular way to address this opportunity. When someone has an idea for improvement, this material guides them through a process to formalize their thought into an Initiative Proposal document giving it substance and clarity. This training also presents senior decision makers with a framework for responding reasonably and rapidly to new proposals ... thus stimulating even more new ideas. This course is the basis for my book, "Project Identification."
PROCESS MODELING SERIES
Tryon and Associates offers a comprehensive look at business requirements, encompassing general concepts, process modeling, data modeling and software design. Many of these seminars provide the most comprehensive training available on this topic. The courses address basic as well as highly advanced topics. Many of the techniques offered in these classes have been created or refined by Tryon and Associates and are unavailable from any other source. Due to the business emphasis of the techniques, they are equally applicable to business analysis projects, business process reengineering and as a requirements technique for software development.
UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
Business Analysis Fundamentals
With the growing demand for business analysts and systems analysts, Tryon and Associates offers a two day introduction into the topics and methods available to support the Business Analysis function in your organization. This seminar includes foundational discussions on requirements and requirements and requirements management. It then provides a survey of the most significant methods and techniques every analyst needs to know. This seminar is an excellent precursor to more intensive process or data modeling training..
MODELING BUSINESS PROCESSES
Using Structured Systems Analysis
This three day workshop provides attendees with the mastery level skills necessary to construct understandable, and verifiable specification using the mature process modeling discipline of Structured Analysis. The goal of this seminar is to create models of a current business processes and orient participants to a true analysis perspective. This course provides detailed training on Data Flow Diagrams, Mini-Specifications and the analysis Data Dictionary using hands-on workshops. It concludes by teaching how to define scope using a Context Diagram.
REENGINEERING BUSINESS PROCESSES
Using Business Event Models
Simply studying the processes within a business rarely satisfies the need for innovative improvements. As a continuation to MODELING BUSINESS PROCESSES, this seminar helps the analyst radically rethink and restructure the true business requirements. Practitioners must be able to identify detailed business requirements that are free of past or future organizational, technological or operational bias. This advanced, four-day seminar/workshop presents a strategy for defining the essential requirements for a selected set of a business’ core processes. Based heavily on a comprehensive and popular case study, this updated seminar builds on what has been Tryon and Associates’ premier systems analysis offering for over fifteen years.
DESIGNING BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
Using Business Event Models
There are many approaches to creating the "big" design for a new technology-based business solution ... most of them based on guesswork and blind intuitive. This three-day seminar introduces a predictable and repeatable process for transforming models of business requirements, captured during analysis, into one or more new application system design. Products from this External Systems Design define new automated and manual components for an application along with the location and content of required interfaces. As this seminar material builds directly on the concepts and by-products of REENGINEERING BUSINESS PROCESSES, practitioners find a simple and elegant transition of business requirements into high-level design deliverables for simplified requirements management. This seminar is a popular "Part Three" in the Process Modeling Series. Designing Business Solutions is appropriate for software developers and non-technical business people as it focuses how to make a technology solution work well within a business operation.
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