Number of FTEs that directly support business entity's knowledge management program per $1 billion revenue

This measure calculates the number of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) per $1 billion revenue that directly support the business entity's knowledge management (KM) program. KM is the function responsible for organizing an entity's knowledge base; determining the kind of specialized knowledge an entity possesses, and which elements of this collective knowledge are beneficial; capturing and maintaining this knowledge; and granting access to this library of information. This measure is part of a set of Process Efficiency measures that help companies optimize their "develop and manage enterprise-wide knowledge management (KM) capability" process by minimizing waste and refining resource consumption.

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Measure Category:
Process Efficiency
Measure ID:
106105
Total Sample Size:
486 All Companies
Performers:
25th
- Median
- 75th
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Key Performance
Indicator:
Yes

Compute this Measure

Units for this measure are FTEs.

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Number of FTEs that directly support the knowledge management program, initiative, or service / (Total business entity revenue * 0.000000001)

Key Terms

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Total Annual Revenue/Net Revenue

Total annual revenue is net proceeds generated from the sale of products or services. This should reflect the selling price less any allowances such as quantity, discounts, rebates and returns. If your business entity is a support unit and therefore does not directly generate revenue, then provide the revenue amount for the units you support. For government/non-profit organizations, please use your non-pass-through budget. For insurance companies the total annual revenue is the total amount of direct written premiums, excluding net investment income. Note: Business entity revenue needs to only include inter-company business segment revenue when the transactions between those business segments are intended to reflect an arm's length transfer price and would therefore meet the regulatory requirements for external revenue reporting.

FTE - (full-time equivalent employee)

To calculate the number of full-time equivalents employed during the year for each respective process or activity, you must prorate the number of employees and the hours spent performing each process/activity. Assume that a full-time worker represents 40 hours per week. Provide the average number of full-time equivalents employed during the year for each respective process. Include full-time employees, part-time employees, and temporary workers hired during peak demand periods. Allocate only the portion of the employee's time that relates to or supports the activities identified for an applicable process. Prorate management and secretarial time by estimating the level of effort in support of each activity, by process.

For example, a part-time secretary in the finance department for XYZ, Inc. charges all of his time to finance department activities. He works 20 hours per week. The secretary splits his time evenly supporting employees working in the general accounting process and the financial reporting process. Thus, his time should be allocated by process. So, if he works throughout the year and supports these two processes, his time would be split evenly as:

20hrs/40hrs = .5FTE * 50% for general accounting = .25FTE for general accounting

20hrs/40hrs = .5FTE * 50% for financial reporting = .25FTE for financial reporting

Process efficiency

Process efficiency represents how well a process converts its inputs into outputs. A process that converts 100% of the inputs into outputs without waste is more efficient than one that converts a similar amount of inputs into fewer outputs.

Median

The metric value which represents the 50th percentile of a peer group. This could also be communicated as the metric value where half of the peer group sample shows lower performance than the expressed metric value or half of the peer group sample shows higher performance than the expressed metric value.

Business Entity

For survey purposes, a business entity is defined as an entity that:

  1. performs significant aspects of the processes for the surveys identified, or
  2. is part of a cost or revenue center within the company.

Within your organization, diverse departments may be geographically co-located, with closely integrated operations that form part of one "business entity" which may be a great distance apart. When trying to determine if related parts of your operation should be considered a single business entity, look for the following characteristics:

  • Do they operate closely together?
  • Do they serve many of the same customers?
  • Do they support the same region or product group?
  • Do they share any performance measures?
  • Is data meaningful at a consolidated level?

Examples of business entity definition:

  1. A general ledger accounting unit located in Germany has two groups. One performs general ledger accounting for the corporate headquarters, which has three business units. The other group does general ledger accounting for one of the three business units. In spite of their geographic co-location, their roles are substantially different and consolidating their data into a single response would make it less meaningful. Each group should be treated as a separate business entity.
  2. Three business units within a corporation use a shared services center for accounts payable and expense reimbursement, but are self-supporting for the other financial processes. The best approach is to make the shared services centre a separate business entity for accounts payable and expense reimbursement, and to retain the three original business units for the other financial processes.
  3. A global manufacturing company has five plant locations, each manufacturing product and each with its own logistics operations. For purposes of completing a manufacturing and logistics survey, they should be treated as five separate business entities.

Measure Scope

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Cross Industry (7.3.0)

  • 13.5.1 - Develop KM strategy (11095) - Creating a plan for managing the organization's knowledge base. Determine what kind of specialized knowledge the organization possesses, which elements of this collective knowledge can prove beneficial, how to capture and maintain this knowledge, how to grant access to this library of information, and how the organization should proceed.
    • 13.5.1.1 - Develop governance model with roles and accountability (11100) - Developing a structure for the governance of the organization's collective knowledge. Gather, maintain, and make accessible the collective knowledge base. Develop a standard procedure for the conservation and perpetuation of the organization's knowledge. Create policies for the usage and maintenance of this knowledge. Establish specialized roles.
    • 13.5.1.2 - Define roles and accountability of core group versus operating units (11102) - Clearly determining the roles and responsibilities of all personnel involved in the management of the organization's corpus of knowledge. Flesh out the roles and responsibilities of the KM core group, as well as the operational staff involved in the upkeep of the knowledge management program.
    • 13.5.1.3 - Develop funding models (11103) - Analyze the organization's current approach to funding. Learn from the funding approaches of peer organizations. Evaluate the revenue potential and costs of those short-list funding models. Select funding models to implement.
    • 13.5.1.4 - Identify links to key initiatives (11104) - Identifying any links that exist between the strategy for knowledge management and any other functional areas. Determine any correlations that exist between the strategic road map for the knowledge management and any other functional areas. Study each function's/unit's attributes.
    • 13.5.1.5 - Develop core KM methodologies (11105) - Creating core knowledge management procedures and methodologies. Initiate developing a strategy, planning, execution, and improvement.
    • 13.5.1.6 - Assess IT needs and engage IT function (11106) - Determining the IT needs for developing the knowledge management strategy, and collaborating with the IT function to implement the strategy. Assess requirements for technologies such as computer hardware, software, electronics, semiconductors, internet, and telecommunications equipment in order to effectively build and implement the strategy for knowledge management.
    • 13.5.1.7 - Develop training and communication plans (11107) - Creating plans for KM training plans and conveying the knowledge management strategy within the organization. Create training programs, sessions, and activities in order to familiarize employees and management with the concept of knowledge management.
    • 13.5.1.8 - Develop change management approaches (11108) - Creating approaches for effectively administering the changes in knowledge management. Design an approach that transforms individuals, teams, and the organization to a desired future state represented by the change.
    • 13.5.1.9 - Develop strategic measures and indicators (11109) - Establishing measures and indicators for evaluating the performance of the knowledge management function. Define key performance indicators such as the amount of knowledge assets created and number of knowledge projects undertaken.
  • 13.5.2 - Assess KM capabilities (11096) - Assessing the maturity of the existing initiatives in knowledge management, and evaluating existing KM approaches. Identify the gaps and needs in order to enhance the existing KM approaches. Develop and implement new KM approaches.
    • 13.5.2.1 - Assess maturity of existing KM initiatives (11110) - Evaluating if initiatives are effective or should be discarded. Design a framework for assessing maturity, typically from Level 1 (undefined), Level 2 (repeatable), Level 3 (defined), and Level 4 (managed) through Level 5 (optimized).
    • 13.5.2.2 - Evaluate existing KM approaches (11111) - Evaluating existing procedures, policies, and guidelines for knowledge management. Study and examine the organization's approach against industry best practices by benchmarking, competitive analysis, etc.
    • 13.5.2.3 - Identify gaps and needs (11112) - Assessing the KM approach evaluations in order to identify any gaps or needs. Compare the performance of the KM approach against the desired or expected performance, as well as against the standard knowledge management industry approach.
  • 13.5.3 - Design and implement KM capabilities (20965) - Creating knowledge bases and other repositories to preserve and develop company expertise, and to train new employees.
    • 13.5.3.1 - Develop new KM approaches (11114) - Designing new policies, procedures, and guidelines to support knowledge management.
    • 13.5.3.2 - Design resource model for KM approaches (20966) - Creating a model to describe resources and approaches to organization's knowledge management. Establish standards and guidelines to be followed.
    • 13.5.3.3 - Implement new KM approaches (11115) - Implementing new policies, procedures, and guidelines to support knowledge management.
    • 13.5.3.4 - Leverage and enhance IT for KM approaches (20967) - Using existing technologies to improve organization's knowledge management processes. Research available third-party offerings. Develop proprietary solutions. Employ knowledge engineers, data scientists and other relevant personnel.
    • 13.5.3.5 - Develop measures (20968) - Creating metrics that can be used to systematically describe KM approaches and capabilities. Choose applicable scales, benchmarks and units of measure. Determine required precision and error rates.
  • 13.5.4 - Evolve and sustain KM capabilities (20969) - Developing resources for improved knowledge management and knowledge engineering.
    • 13.5.4.1 - Enhance/Modify existing KM approaches (11113) - Leveraging KM evaluations and identified gap to enhance existing approaches.
    • 13.5.4.2 -  Sustain awareness and engagement (20970) - Developing awareness about available knowledge bases and promoting their use to maximize their impact.
    • 13.5.4.3 - Expand KM infrastructure to meet demand (20971) - Augmenting available resources to better leverage the offerings of the organization to serve existing clients and to expand the client base.