"KorteQ's dynamic approach helped us to align knowledge management activity with our commitment to international growth and excellence of our engineering solutions"

Jeff Owen, Technical Director
Weir Strachan & Henshaw
Publications
Please take a look at the following publications and brochures, which may be freely downloaded. Please do contact us with your feedback or suggestions.
Technology Consultant Opportunity
Are you looking for a role where you will combine your passion for technology with your innovative and outgoing personality? KorteQ is looking to recruit an entry level consultant with a strong IT background and a hunger to learn, for our dynamic and growing team.

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CASE STUDY:
Success Story at Doosan Babcock Energy

The impending retirement of a key member of their team highlighted the opportunity to capture specialist knowledge, in order to help scale-up the activity in a robust way over the coming years. The project, supported by KorteQ, has set a benchmark for other knowledge acquisition projects, promoting the benefits for their highly experienced staff.
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EDF Energy Existing Nuclear Lessons Learnt Methodology (LLM) case study
Underpinning a drive to “enhance Station performance through safe and effective delivery of projects”, KorteQ has helped the EDF Existing Nuclear Projects Division to embed a new Lessons-Learnt Methodology (LLM) to ensure coherent knowledge management throughout the lifecycle of each project, for over 300 staff geographically dispersed across nine locations.
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Business in the Community
At KorteQ we regularly review our responsibilities and role as part of wider society both at Board level and via whole-company communication mechanisms such as face-to-face team meetings and the Socialcast wiki.
KorteQ takes the opportunity to sponsor a range of activities not directly related to client work and actively encourages staff to take part in community-based initiatives.

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KorteQ Code of Ethics Policy
KorteQ is committed to achieving the highest standards of quality, honesty, openness and accountability in all of our activities and acting at all times with integrity, honesty and within the law.

Please follow the link below to download the KorteQ Code of Ethics Policy.
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International Atomic Enery Agency (IAEA) Graphite Knowledge Base project case study
The highly renowned International Atomic Energy Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies.
KorteQ Limited has helped the Agency to streamline this daily collaboration through an innovative knowledge base.
This secure and scalable solution, based on a Microsoft Windows SharePoint platform, enables IAEA members to share vital data and knowledge, connected to diverse sources of high-integrity information. In order to promote wider dissemination of non-confidential intelligence, the solution was engineered to include more open access for members of the general public.
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July 2010 - KorteQ receives Achilles registration
KorteQ has recently become a fully registered supplier on the Achilles Utilities Vendor Database (UVDB).

The supplier management services that Achilles provides are used by companies throughout the utility industry, including the power generation, transmission and distribution, nuclear, water, telecom and gas industries. Initially developed to deal with sourcing and qualifying suppliers, today’s services are increasingly addressing issues, not only of health and safety, but also of corporate social responsibility, environmental and quality management systems.

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British Energy Graphite Core Project Team Case Study
KorteQ Limited has helped the organisation and its partners to optimise collaboration between large teams of expert technologists working across teh UK, Europe and worldwide, by implementing an innovative Technical Exchange Forum (TEF)
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Business Consultant Opportunity
Are you looking for a role in management consultancy that offers client contact, responsibility and the opportunity to put your good ideas into practice at an early stage? KorteQ seeks to recruit an entry-level Business Consultant, with a strong engineering / science background and a confident, outgoing personality, to join our dynamic and growing team.
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Toolset Training Course Brochure
When applied correctly, KM tools enable improved performance, reduced risk, accelerated learning and improved collaboration.

But how should the right tool be selected and what are the key hints and tips for maximising the benefits?

This one-day training course provides a concise introduction which will help you to answer the above questions and immediately take advantage of the most cost-effective method(s) within your own department.
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Lessons Learnt Training Course Brochure
This “hands-on” course includes taught sessions, integrated practical experience and coaching, enriched throughout with industry case studies. Using our practical delivery experience of LLM, we will work with you to customise the content to fit your specific needs. The course design suits up to 10 participants, for 2 - 5 days depending on scope and level of detail required.
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KorteQ - Bloor - Effective Knowledge Transfer 2008
In March 2008 Patrick Mercer, MP OBE, hosted a breakfast round table for the KorteQ/Bloor research programme. The topic for debate was "Effective Knowledge Transfer" chaired by Dr. Richard Sykes, the internationally renowned commentator on the global ICT industry and future business models. Attendees include senior executives from both end-user companies and from the IT industry.
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A UK Engineering Skills Shortage: Myth or Reality?
Enterprise Integration (March 2007)
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Get Fit for Knowledge Management
KC-UK Presentation (June 2007)
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KorteQ Brochure: An Ageing Workforce
"The baby-boomer generation, which started to turn 60 this year, is far larger than any other current generation, and casts a shadow over the companies it is set to leave behind" according to the Economist's February 2006 editorial.
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KorteQ Brochure: Expert Knowledge Acquisition
Our practitioner training and facilitation methods draw on the experience of over 300 implementation cases and offer a range of techniques dependent on the client need and the resources available.
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KorteQ Brochure: Learning from Experience
What will we miss the most when the experts are no longer around? KorteQ is working with several major organisations who wish to put this right by embedding more robust learning processes, behaviours, methods and usage of knowledge sharing tools.
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KorteQ Brochure: Embed Decision Rationale
User uptake of new knowledge management capabilities is notoriously weak, but KorteQ has a proven track record of helping clients to deploy "decision rationale" methods, supported by open-source software.
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KorteQ Brochure: Front Line Know-How
The phenomenon of off-shoring is becoming increasingly popular. From our research into the experience of several large organisations conducting facility relocation and/or process outsourcing, KorteQ has distilled a suite of knowledge transfer best practices.
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Nuclear Industry Insights
Our membership of the UK Nuclear Industry Association contributes to our intelligence pool on the advanced knowledge management practices helping to build up supply chain capability. Contact us to discuss these industry-specific insights or just browse the public NIA website.

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