Knowledge Strategist is a technology strategy and project consulting firm focused on helping non-profit and professional services organizations accomplish things with people, technology and information that was previously believed to be impossible
Our mission is to help our clients envision and complete digital transformations that have meaningful impact to their operations and ultimately improve delivery of services to their customers and constituents. It is our responsibility to help our clients become as independent as possible in directing and realizing the digital transformations they envision. We seek to only offer and provide services that are valuable to our clients and to introduce our clients to other partners whom share our values and offer expertise different from and complimentary to our own.
Our service areas are designed to help clients utilize existing assets in people and technology to ensure they take as much direct ownership of a project or digital transformation as possible. We are technology agnostic and work within a variety of domains including ERP, CRM, content management and custom development. We facilitate more successful relationships between our clients and system integrators by validating technologies and scope are matched well to underlying business objectives; improving collaboration across teams and ensuring business requirements adequately describe the solutions being built. When engaged in implementation projects, we are tireless in our advocacy for: 1. business owners within our client organizations, 2. end customers being served, 3. engineers engaged in building the solution(s) and 4. the business objectives and underlying benefits being pursued.
We partner IT and business to articulate business strategies and uncover the requirements that will get the business where needs to go; ensuring success by putting everyone on the same page
We help organizations avoid over-investing in technology by staying focused on the outcomes the technology should produce and making sure that existing assets are used to their fullest
We make sure projects start with an understanding of what it will take to go beyond the finish line. We begin preparing teams for solution ownership at the beginning, rather the end of a project
We manage projects with an understanding that change is inevitable. This requires agile methods, constant communication and an ability quickly articulate the impact of new information
Knowledge Strategist, LLC was formed in 2015 by David Shaw following 20 years in Information Technology consulting, product development and management. David’s graduate studies in Information Management and Knowledge Strategy at Columbia University helped solidify the belief that organizations should be be in the driver’s seat of their own transformations. The vision for Knowledge Strategist is to offer clients a new kind of consulting partner with a smaller footprint and greater impact. The Knowledge Strategist approach involves facilitating brainstorming and critical decision making, unparalleled business analysis, developing leaders within client organizations and ensuring the right resources are in place to support change.
The Knowledge Strategist client portfolio includes a number of high profile private and non-profit organizations headquartered between Washington DC and San Francisco with annual revenues beginning at 50M. These organizations share in a passion for serving their customers and improving lives through the dissemination of knowledge and information.
