KDR Lab is an Information Research & Information Management consulting firm with competent actionable foresight and intimate insight into ICT and Information Management. KDR Lab services 3 distinct market segments through its autonomous subsidiary division:
concentrates on complex systems integration and transformation, as well as on design and construction of more complex web solutions.
concentrates purely on web design & web construction solutions. Its prime market segment is small & medium size organizations.
Although the divisions are autonomous the collective know-how, and experience are readily employed across all divisions. We offer practical expertise of turning around underperforming operations into world-class efficient operations. We do not promise to alleviate all the stress or smooth out all spikes, for we believe that positive stress and bursts of creativity are good. These are the fuel to the engines of the energetic enterprise, that move the enterprise forward. The challenge of course is to turn the negative stress into opportunities, to multiply and amplify the creative bursts, and to transform underperforming operations into world-class, elastic operations, which can withstand not only competitive pressures, but also able to seize and create opportunities. We have the know-how and seasoned experience to deliver such transformations.
The foundation of KDR Lab's solutions is the Adaptive Cognitive Knowledge Continuum Model™ (ACKCM™), which revolves around the principle of human cognition as being the most creative, and the most potent force for all intelligent information processing. Information Technology is tremendously important, however, its effectiveness is determined by the cognitive dexterity of its users. We have developed a set of Management and Software Engineering methodologies, which can tremendously aid management and analysts to achieve spectacular results within shorter time and make the transformation enduring.
- RTSCM: Real-Time Synchronized Collaboration Model
- C-DREAM: Cognitive Digitally Rendered Environment Aware Machine.
- ASYMPLIX: Asymmetric Paperless Information Exchange
- USEPC: Unified Software Engineering Process Continuum
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Many of today's IMSs, have evolved out of the information "hunter/gatherer" paradigm and are no longer adequate to cope effectively with the impact of abstract situations, threats from adversaries, market pressures, nor able to cope with unpredictable strategies of competitors. In this age, it is the quality of information, the know-how of employees, the expertise of the experts, the experience of the seasoned personnel and the cognitive dexterity of the management, which are required to face the unpredictability, and to meet the new challenges. @ KDR Lab we have developed an Adaptive Cognitive Knowledge Continuum Model™ for Information Management, Knowledge Management (KM) and software engineering projects. At the heart of ACKCM™ is the notion of Valuable Knowledge, which rests upon 4 pillars of human cognition:
- Management's cognitive dexterity
- Experts' know-how
- "Creative dash" of imaginative employees
- Experience of seasoned personnel.
We offer hands on expertise in:
- Strategic operational and analytical information systems design
- Process Mapping of mission critical operational & BI systems
- Strategy formulation
- Projects Management
- Knowledge Management
- Cognitive Knowledge Continuum Modeling
- Knowledge acquisition, codification & repository
- Knowledge and Intelligence Elasticity
- Enterprise-wide Knowledge Diffusion strategies and tactics
- Information Systems Audit
- Technology evaluation and selection
- Information Assets Management
- Intelligence Systems' Analysis
- Systems Integration, conversion & transformation
- Outsourcing
- Risk Assessment
- ERMS & EDMS compliance assessment
- Online Information Research
- Clients' Profiling Systems design and implementation
- Safe and irrecoverable disposal of data
- Recovery of lost or destroyed data
- Research and Development of Green & PaperLess Information Technologies
Reduce paper consumption by 50%-80% ASYMPLIX™ is our premier enterprise web application for creating dynamic online document templates for standard correspondence. It employs a Dynamic Content Manipulation algorithm, which allows users to manipulate the dynamic elements of a protected online document within the body of the document, yet without altering or corrupting the content. ASYMPLIX™ also has a built-in Automated Document Archiving System, which archives every online document automatically and completely transparently to the user. Furthermore, ASYMPLIX™ provides for 3 modes of transmission (3MOT) which allow users, with a single click to decide how to transmit the document:
- Print - hard copy
- E-Mail - any document or letter
- E-Fax - automatically sent from the user's PC
One of the grandest promises of the ICT was to eliminate paper from offices, or at least significantly reduce paper consumption. Whilst in many areas the new ICT has delivered spectacular gains, it has failed miserably on the promise of reducing paper consumption. "The arrival of the personal computer.., combined with the arrival of networks ..., gave rise to much talk of a "paperless office" and, by extension, a "paperless society". However, the production and use of paper products is at an all-time high. Data reveal that consumption of paper for printing and writing alone has increased significantly over the last two decades. (Statistics Canada) Today, paper in offices is excessively used and with gross inefficiencies. Employees are printing out reams of single sided pages, and with extravagant wastage - much of the printed material is never or hardly read; just look around your printer bays; much of the printed pages go from printer straight into the recycling bin. "The paperless office is the office that never happened, with consumption of paper at an all-time high and the business of transporting paper thriving." (Statistics Canada). The question thus; why the promise of paperless office has failed to materialize so comprehensively? Our study has concluded that despite an overwhelming desire of people to reduce paper consumption, the two most significant factors that persistently contribute to paper consumption are outdated document management practices and technologies which offer neither the flexibility nor the convenience of the humble paper. In fact the current technologies enhance the comfort of paper by making it easier for anybody to put everything and anything on paper, whilst offering no compelling alternative to printing. @ KDR Lab we engineer software solutions based on Adaptive Cognitive Knowledge Continuum Model (ACKCM), whereby our products aim to adapt to the users' ways of doing things. Thus if something is more convenient or more pleasurable to use, users will embrace it. ASYMPLIX™ is one such system.
Dr. Michael Polanyi (1891-1976)- one of the most eminent scientists in physical chemistry and epistemology - has postulated that:
- True discovery cannot be accounted for by rules or algorithms
- Knowledge is both public and to a great extent personal (and contains emotions)
- Knowledge that underlies explicit knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge
According to the Gartner Group's recent survey of 1,400 CIOs, BI projects is the number one technology priority for 2007.
Many CIOs and business leaders consider BI and KM to be the two most significant strategic initiatives for innovation and effectiveness. Whilst powerful technologies do play a major role in BI systems' overall composition, studies consistently show that despite these powerful technologies, many BI systems are both ineffective and inefficient. Most organizations struggle with information overload, and are short on strategic intelligence, thus the users of inefficient BI systems are hard pressed to turn information into actionable intelligence.
The reality is that, generating countless analytical reports out of mountains of data and information is far less challenging than making intelligent decision out of the such reports. IBM suggests companies use less than 1% of their data for analysis, whilst a study by Business Objects (a leading provider of business intelligence software), found that 90% of the executives in 450 leading companies admit they make most of their decisions by gut instinct because they lack the right information when they need it.
Indeed, the BI tag is fashionable; it sells. However, BI systems which cannot provides the decision makers with an ability to extract, extrapolate and connect the useful information, can hardly be called Intelligent.
@ KDR Lab we offer an impressive array of skills, expertise and solid know-how for delivering effective BI implementations.
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The ICT industry and the executive boardrooms are all abuzz with grand slogans, futuristic visions, and hyper expectations from Business Intelligence (BI). Most BI solutions promise to deliver the competitive edge, without the need for any serious intellectual input or expertise from the management. The inbuilt intelligent agents, neural networks, meta tagging, expert systems, semantic networks, OLAP, and the list of contextually meaningless or foggy acronyms is just growing longer. But looking closer under the skin of all the
"new and innovative
' offerings will reveal to an expert that many of these are merely repainted, repackaged or re-branded, decade-old technologies, techniques and practices, which bloat even more the deluge of low grade, incongruent and outdated information stream, which clogs up communication channels, chews up valuable communication bandwidth, and fills up storage assets, thus inhibiting sound decision making.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting improvements is a delusion. Just as delusional is retracting to the old ways of doing things under the pretence of instituting change or instituting "new" change just for sake of the fashionable
'change is good
' mantra. Such delusions or dysfunctional tactics, precipitate shallowness and instill an enterprise-wide cynicism. Sometimes dysfunctional tactics are employed because making sense out of the vast volume of low grade data and taking timely actions to support mission critical decisions is highly problematic. However, the most damaging aspect of employing dysfunctional tactics is that they lead to the promotion of mediocrity and the shutting out of the bright minds that drive genuine innovations. So, is there a genuine solution? Yes, there is!
Enactments to BI & KM systems are critical in the global environment, however; the solution lies in a profoundly different approach to BI & KM implementations. The core of every effective system must be the cognitive ability of the skilled workforce whose skills, expert know-how, experience and creativity can deliver the truly magnificent gains. Business rules, compliance, management's integrity, executive board's fiduciary and corporate governance are all indispensable. Sadly, however, outdated and rigid organizational policies, practices and rituals often render compliance and good governance inefficient as well as hinder rather than stimulate and foster innovation, creativity, excellence and prudent risk management.
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@KDR Lab we have assembled a team of talented and highly skilled programmers, designers and analysts. Through our subsidiary divisions - CyberCoil &
AmberCoil - we offer several kinds of outstanding web development services as follows:
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Replication:
We will develop tailored solutions similar to or better than a chosen website on the net.
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"Man's most judicious trait, is a good sense of what not to believe." (Euripides)
For most organizations the great challenge of today is how to manage the information overload. The reality, however, is that most of the information is outdated and of low value to the organization, whilst the valuable information is buried under the mountain of low grade data. An astonishing array of ICT resources, analytical efforts, and financial outlays are dedicated to manage, or at least "do something" with the information deluge. Despite powerful technologies, it is becoming increasingly difficult to extract valuable information out of the bloated corporate data stores.
@KDR Lab we help clients to meet the challenge of how to:
Today's powerful technologies offer outstanding information processing and facts codification capabilities. Yet technology based solutions persistently fail to deliver on the promised paybacks for heavy investments in Business and Competitive Intelligence, Unified Enterprise Knowledge, ERP, and CRM. It seems that those who are beholden to the wonders of technologies are either living in a perpetual state of bewilderment, wondering why so many of the promises of improved market knowledge, unified enterprise metadata and actionable intelligence have not materialized, or oblivious to the fact that the paybacks have not materialized. The truth is that the binary logic gates of even the most powerful computers are incapable for serendipitous discovery. An alert, imaginative and inquisitive mind is capable. Technology offers neither foresight, nor can it offer abstract intelligence. Insight, foresight, discovery and abstraction are all the sole domains and properties of trained and creative minds. Computers play strictly by the rules - square and fair; people don't. Computers don't bend the rules impressed into their binary algorithm; people bend the rules all the time. This is one of the many limitations of even the most sophisticated artificial intelligence. In 1997, the IBM's Deep Blue beat the best of the best chess players in the world. How computers play the game is less important than the fact that people neither think nor play the way computers do: "...computers don't know when to accept a draw. Computes - at least currently existing computers--can't be bored or embarrassed, or anxious about losing the respect of the other players, and these are aspects of life that human competitors always have to contend with, and sometimes even exploit, in their games. ... Human players often try to intimidate or embarrass their human opponents..." (By Daniel C. Dennett. Higher Games - Technology Review) Organizational, business and social problems and challenges are fundamentally of human nature rather than of computational. And whilst it is prudent to consider all the pertaining facts, the creative mind transcends facts and facts based puritan logic. Managers, who are beholden to the wonders of technology constrain their own cognitive capacity as well as limit the potential of the organization's talented workforce. At the other extreme of the organizational spectrum are those managers, who are impervious to the technological benefits, thus numbing their own cognitive potential, or worst, dampening the enthusiasm of the talented people. Those, who are ignorant of the value of a creative mind's cognitive dexterity, intuition and laterality, consistently underperform. @KDR Lab we offer strategic and tactical consulting services which synthesize organization's Information Management Services with people's talent, experts' insights and management's foresight beyond the technology perspective. We help our clients to sharpen their focus on what needs to be done to:
- Determine what's useful and what's not
- Extract and exploit the useful information
- Prevent useless information from entering information repositories
- Manage information and the IM infrastructure, including information disposal
- Meet compliance obligations: electronic records and documents management
- Build effective Customer Relationship Management Systems
- Online Content Management Systems
Today's powerful technologies offer outstanding information processing and facts codification capabilities. Yet technology based solutions persistently fail to deliver on the promised paybacks for heavy investments in Business and Competitive Intelligence, Unified Enterprise Knowledge, ERP, and CRM. It seems that those who are beholden to the wonders of technologies are either living in a perpetual state of bewilderment, wondering why so many of the promises of improved market knowledge, unified enterprise metadata and actionable intelligence have not materialized, or oblivious to the fact that the paybacks have not materialized. The truth is that the binary logic gates of even the most powerful computers are incapable for serendipitous discovery. An alert, imaginative and inquisitive mind is capable. Technology offers neither foresight, nor can it offer abstract intelligence. Insight, foresight, discovery and abstraction are all the sole domains and properties of trained and creative minds. Computers play strictly by the rules - square and fair; people don't. Computers don't bend the rules impressed into their binary algorithm; people bend the rules all the time. This is one of the many limitations of even the most sophisticated artificial intelligence. In 1997, the IBM's Deep Blue beat the best of the best chess players in the world. How computers play the game is less important than the fact that people neither think nor play the way computers do: "...computers don't know when to accept a draw. Computes - at least currently existing computers--can't be bored or embarrassed, or anxious about losing the respect of the other players, and these are aspects of life that human competitors always have to contend with, and sometimes even exploit, in their games. ... Human players often try to intimidate or embarrass their human opponents..." (By Daniel C. Dennett. Higher Games - Technology Review) Organizational, business and social problems and challenges are fundamentally of human nature rather than of computational. And whilst it is prudent to consider all the pertaining facts, the creative mind transcends facts and facts based puritan logic. Managers, who are beholden to the wonders of technology constrain their own cognitive capacity as well as limit the potential of the organization's talented workforce. At the other extreme of the organizational spectrum are those managers, who are impervious to the technological benefits, thus numbing their own cognitive potential, or worst, dampening the enthusiasm of the talented people. Those, who are ignorant of the value of a creative mind's cognitive dexterity, intuition and laterality, consistently underperform. @KDR Lab we offer strategic and tactical consulting services which synthesize organization's Information Management Services with people's talent, experts' insights and management's foresight beyond the technology perspective. We help our clients to sharpen their focus on what needs to be done to:
- Uncover internal weaknesses
- Explore and harness the organization's inner strength
- Capture commercial opportunities ahead of competitors
- Exploit competitors' weakness oversight.
Offshore outsourcing can be an outstanding value proposition - but it can also be a bitter experience. The three most observable reasons for outsourcing failures are:
- Un-ironed cultural disparities.
- Lack of control over the critical aspects of the outsourced project.
- Immature vendor/client relationship.
- High degree of technical know-how.
- Fixed cost or flexible delivery terms.
- Uninterrupted control over the project's progress and deliverables.
- Rigorous selection process of offshore vendors.
- Negotiating the most favorable terms for the client.
Many executives and managers are afforded a PA and other comprehensive IT support services. However, there are times and situations when relying upon supporting services is either undesirable or not possible.
Some of the examples of such situations are:
- Personal or confidential tasks or assignments
- Highly sensitive information exchanges
- Support services are no longer available, such as after retirement
- Effective strategies and tactics for information protection
- Files encryption, unrecoverable destruction and disposal of sensitive content
- Strategies and tactics for confidential e-communication
This is a distinctly technical aspect of our overall consulting profile. Through our subsidiary CyberCoil and other trusted technology partners we offer highly advanced data management services in the following two areas:
- Data recovery
- Data destruction