Visualising and analysing intellectual heritages

For more than ten years, the use of maps has enabled companies to visualise their intellectual assets in a framework that can be understood by all. The basis is the choice of a model, a description but also an analysis of this intellectual heritage (intangible asset).

In order to have a clear and precise vision of your intangible assets, we carry out various types of mapping based on a series of interviews and meetings with your teams:

Knowledge mappings
Mapping of expertise
Mapping of skills held by your employees
Mapping of business processes (possibly linked to your quality approach)

Thus, when the culture of oral transmission is very strong, a map of who knows how to do what and who knows what becomes an essential knowledge tool.

Leading Knowledge Management actions

These maps are also a major asset for the management of your Knowledge Management actions (collection of expertise, implementation of an REX or project capitalisation approach, etc.) but also for your HR actions (recruitment, training, skills development, etc.).

The purpose of such maps is multiple:

Knowing the "who knows what?"
Know the number of experts per field and their possible retirement date
Know what knowledge is useful, key or crucial to your business
Knowing the types of knowledge that should be applied when a need, problem or malfunction arises
Knowing what skills and knowledge are useful for a new activity and whether they need to be acquired or not

Creation of knowledge maps

Visualising and analysing intellectual heritages

Leading Knowledge Management actions

ARDANS