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Context and Objectives of the LEVER
Project Raphael Koumeri PLANET ErnstYoung
www.planetey.com Information Society
perspectives in South Eastern Europe
Thessaloniki 29-30 June 2001
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Our company

• Created by the merger of PLANET S.A. and ERNST
  YOUNG Management Consulting-Southeast Europe
• National Bank of Greece participates in the
  companys capital structure
• The first Greek multinational company providing
  management and engineering consulting services
• Revenues for 2000 approximately 12 million Euros
  with an estimated 26 yearly average growth rate
  (2001-2004)
• Occupies approximately 230 professionals
• Continues to develop a leading and innovative
  presence in Southeast Europe

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Our geographical presence
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Brussels
Moldova
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Yugoslavia
Romania
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Bulgaria
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FYROM
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Istanbul
Albania
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Thessaloniki
Ankara
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Athens
Patras
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Cyprus
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The history of the LEVER Project The Know-Net
Project

• Know-Net Project was an ESPRIT project that
  started in October 1998 and was completed in
  March 2000.
• The objective of Know-Net was to create and
  commercially exploit an innovative holistic
  paradigm for knowledge management within business
  organizations by developing, applying, testing
  and evaluating
• an ICT-based KM Tool and
• a set of methods
• that will enable the creation, retention, sharing
  and leveraging of knowledge assets in business
  organizations

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The Know-Net Consortium Partners

• Greek Management Consultancy firm -
• Coordinator of Know-Net

The Center for Advanced Learning Technologies of
INSEAD
Research Center for AI, research institute in the
field of innovative software technology
International knowledge management and technology
consulting organization
The Credit Risk Valuation department of one of
the world's leading financial services groups
The CIM-Zentrum Muttenz (CZM), a department of
the Fachhochschule beider Basel (FHBB)
FhBB
Institute of Communications and Computer Systems
(ICCS) of the National Technical University of
Athens
A UK firm of Chartered Surveyors and Commercial
Property Agents
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The Know-Net Results

• The result of the Know-Net project is a total KM
  solution, offering
• an innovative approach to corporate knowledge
  management that fuses in a unique way the
  knowledge-as-a-product (content) and
  knowledge-as-a-process (context) perspectives
• a modular method that guides companies through
  the journey of managing knowledge for business
  advantage and
• an intranet-based software system, which
  integrates content management, collaboration and
  communication with advanced search and retrieval
  facilities

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LEVER Identity

• Project type Trial
• Duration 12 months
• Start date 1 November 2000
• EC Funding 650.000 ECU
• Project Consortium 8 partners from 4 countries

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The LEVER Consortium Partners
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Expected Results of the LEVER Project

• A KM offering for software companies consisting
  of a consulting methodology and software
  applications
• Building on and extending the
• Know-Net Intranet-based KM toolset and
• the Know-Net methodology
• Four business cases demonstrating the feasibility
  and applicability of the proposed KM solution
• With a special emphasis on the IT services sector
  processes
• Software development
• New product development
• Knowledge sharing among project teams
• Training on software modules

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Applying the Know-Net solution in User partners
The Case of MDA
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MDA Corporation

• Started as an IBM AMA
• Primarily a software development company
• Type of projects
• Turnkey projects
• Software development projects
• Networking and hardware projects
• Software Projects
• DBMS Applications
• Health Systems
• Educational Systems
• Industrial Systems

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The need to manage knowledge in MDA

• Knowledge is in the minds of the people
• Senior management commitment
• KM Initiation team
• Objectives
• Leverage off the existing capabilities
• Strategies
• Strategic alliances
• Revisit customers
• Critical success factors
• Develop new ideas, and deliver quality services
• Staff development

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The Balkan Cooperation for PLANET ErnstYoung
(1/2)

• Is a strategic objective
• Is realised through many RD and other projects
• LEVER with Turkey and other countries
• HERMES with Turkey and Middle East countries
• ENLARGE with Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia
• STOPANSKA BANK Integrated Information Systems in
  Skopjie
• UNITED BULGARIAN BANK, Integrated Information
  Systems
• etc
• Is aiming at establishing permanent links with
  the Industry and University in the Region
  through
• Developing PLANET ErnstYoung local offices
• Strategic alliances

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The Balkan Cooperation for PLANET ErnstYoung
(2/2)

• We are looking forward to further strengthening
  
• this cooperation through the IST Programme!
• WE are open to your suggestions!

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Thank you for your attention!!