When purchasing a standard K-Book course from our library you can select the option to have the K-Book tailored to your specifications.  Starting from the core content of the "baseline" version of the course, we modify the content to include your company's specific SOP's, content edits, images and logo.  The result is a customized course that is based on proven content!  There is no less expensive way to acquire customized elearning!

When you purchase tailoring for your K-Book course Knowledge-Forge will make the modifications listed below, per your instruction, at no additional cost.

• Add, edit, delete or replace up to 20 pages of text, with up to 140 words and 1 picture per page
• Add or substitute up to 25 images
• Add or substitute up to 2 videos
• Add, edit or replace up to 20 questions
• Add, edit or replace up to 20 glossary entries
• Course certificate will be customized to include company signatory and logo
• Logos will be replaced with customer Logos
• Audio voice-over will be provided for all pages
• Active "Internet style" links can be modified, where deemed appropriate by KFI

The tailoring process is designed to be simple and to get your tailored K-Book online as quickly as possible.

1. Knowledge-Forge will setup a customer specific "tailoring environment" that your content expert can use to view the course.  We will also provide a set of step-by-step tailoring instructions.
2. Working from the online version of the course, you mark any content changes on the hard-copy listing for the course.
3. Knowledge-Forge will integrate the changes and post an updated version of the course in your tailoring environment for your review and approval.
4. After final corrections are made and the course approved, we will finalize the course and make it available in the format in which it was ordered.

Additional Features and Services are also available at an addtional fee:

• Additional content pages, test questions and voice-over
• Extra videos digitized, edited and compressed from customer source video
• Multimedia style video production and digital photography production, on-site   

The Knowledge-Forge "Co-Lab" development process is a unique way to affordably make new courses available and insure comprehensive coverage of the topic.  We work with Training and Quality specialists from multiple institutions to develop new courses using a team approach.  This collaborative process insures a more thorough coverage of the topic and high product quality while actually reducing costs to each member of the Co-Lab team.  If you are interested in a course of wide appeal that is not available in our course library, contact us about participating in a Co-Lab development. 

Knowledge-Forge can also develop custom courses to meet your requirements.  Using existing elements of our K-Book technology we can rapidly develop K-Book courses on a wide variety of needs and topics. 

Our basic custom K-Book configuration contains the following elements, up to the quantity indicated:

• 40 Pages of Content with customer supplied digital photos, graphics and logos
• 25 Multiple choice question pages
• 40 Pages of audio voice-over on instructional pages
• 6 Active "Internet style" links
• 2 Videos up to 30-seconds each from customer supplied video source
• 2 Hours artwork, layout, design & company branding
• 3 Hours content development
• 3 Hours knowledge filtering
• 2 Hours instructional design
• Editing capabilities within parameters of the project
• Installation instructions and technical notes

Knowledge-Filtering
Knowledge Filtering is a unique and proprietary process developed by Knowledge-Forge founder, Ward Flynn. This process is a functional algorithm that guides a knowledge engineer through a process as he or she works with client content experts to get the right information to just the right people in a way that makes it most useful-in other words, it is the process of transforming information into useful knowledge. There are four filters and self-referencing processes that are applied to a body of information during a 20+ step implementation. The filters Focus, Amplify, Condense, and Link information into a re-purposed knowledgebase. A typical K-Book typically uses at least 3-5 hours of a Knowledge Filtering over a two to three week period. Click here for a more detailed discussion about Knowledge Filtering.

Content Conversion & Creation
K-Book content is either developed new or converted from existing documents and resources. In either case the development process is governed by the Knowledge Filtering process. New content involves content, subject matter, and end-user experts facilitated by an instructional designer to get the best possible outcome.

Conversion involves filtering existing resources to focus, amplify, condense, and link that material to the original source so that a user can easily assimilate the summary and determine whether direct access to the source material is required. Sometimes this conversion is not with text files, but involves converting an instructional video into a self-paced tutorial, or may use a Slide Show as source material for an interactive learning experience. The amount of time devoted to this process varies widely from project to project. Knowledge-Forge can be heavily involved, or guide an internal process with the client.

Instructional Design
Our Knowledge Engineers combine experience in knowledge filtering and multi-media content creation. They can recommend, assist or design the K-Book to consistently deliver the most effective results. Engage Knowledge-Forge to design and deliver a solution for you that is simple, intuitive and effective.

Project Management
A successful project requires a successful Project Manager. The Project Manager is the direct interface to the client's content experts. Critical decisions about purpose, target users, time frames and content to be converted are part of the project manager's responsibility; as is managing to a budget. Creation of a typical K-Book takes approximately two to three weeks during which the Project Manager facilitates an interactive process to meet and exceed the customer's needs. A typical project life-cycle showing how the Knowledge-Filters are applied may be seen by clicking: Project Lifecycle

For more product information, pricing, help in designing a solution for your needs or to schedule a demo send an email to sales, or call 866-822-KNOW or 303-540-3948.