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<StrategicPlan><id/><Name>Yield Management of Knowledge</Name><Description>Since the dawn of life, surviving species have proven the need to be continuously adaptive. Since the dawn of computing, enterprise IT has been rigid and immutable. Kyield answered the call.</Description><OtherInformation>How Does Kyield Enterprise Work?
Kyield employs a scientific approach focused on the universal issues in every type of organization. The distributed operating system (OS) interacts with deeply structured data that continuously adapts to the needs of customer organizations and their knowledge workers. Semi-automated controls allow knowledge workers to fine-tune profile settings as needed through 
a simple to use natural language interface. The self-managed profiles then direct advanced analytics, digital consumption, and visual metrics towards each unique mission within regulatory and corporate parameters. Business units and partners are also provided with a module to manage profiles, missions, permissions, and relationships. The entire neural network is then governed through Kyield’s proprietary AI engine (CKO), which sets digital policy for all entities in compliance with specific regulatory requirements, governance, objectives, innovation, productivity, corporate policy, security, and audit functions. </OtherInformation><StrategicPlanCore><Organization><Name>Kyield Enterprise</Name><Acronym>KE</Acronym><Identifier>_e28b8340-b853-11e3-8a00-0a8b2a530574</Identifier><Description>What is Kyield Enterprise? 
1. A human-powered, AI-assisted, globally 
distributed operating system. 
2. A continuously adaptive neural network. 
3. Extended to and from all knowledge workers with 
permission to engage in the system. 
4. Tailored to each entity’s self-managed profile. 
5. Compliant within regulatory and governance 
parameters. 
6. Designed to significantly improve productivity, 
reduce risk, and expedite discoveries. 
7. Includes baseline predictive analytics with ability 
to plug-in third party apps and algorithms. 
8. Constrained complexity with ever-increasing 
cognitive ability. 
9. Patented core with flexible deployment options. 
10. Targets customer use cases with highest ROI 
possible. 
</Description><Stakeholder><Name>Mark Montgomery</Name><Description>Mr. Montgomery is the founder and CEO of Kyield, originator of the theorem ‘yield management of knowledge’, and author of the key AI systems patent that serves as the foundation for Kyield: ‘Modular System for Optimizing Knowledge Yield in the Digital Workplace’, United States Patent 8005778 Issued August 23, 2011. Mr. Montgomery was formerly a business consultant who founded an early stage venture firm and pioneering lab and incubator that created and operated several ventures, including the leading small business network in the mid-1990s and a social learning network for global thought leaders that became a pioneer in social and learning networks. When not working long hours on Kyield, he can often be found hiking, cross country skiing and mountain biking in the southern Rockies, or at the Santa Fe Institute where he is a frequent visitor.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Business Leaders</Name><Description>Business leaders continuously analyze the changing landscape for 
strategic advantage. The entire team should be engaged. 
</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Banks</Name><Description>The financial crisis revealed systemic risk in banking and regulatory oversight, resulting in Dodd-Frank, Basel 
III, and record fines. Large trading losses, systemic risk, increased regulation and emergent technology have led to 
internal system transformation and data standards such as the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO). 
</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Biopharmaceuticals</Name><Description>Patent cliffs, price pressure, regulation, new technologies and personalized medicine are 
directly impacted by digital convergence. Record fines, falsified research, late stage drug failures, need for partnering, 
and corporate-wide transformation are perfectly matched needs for Kyield’s system. 
</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Manufacturers</Name><Description>Enjoying a renaissance since the Great Recession, the challenge for many will be in sustaining lean 
momentum and growth as competition increases. Managing transition to the Internet of everything and achieving 
optimal balance between AI and humans are top priorities for two sector leaders considering Kyield. 
</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Insurance Companies</Name><Description>A long history in e-commerce, structured data, risk management, and a pioneer in XML and predictive 
analytics, the insurance industry is now embracing semantics through ACORD, OMG, W3C, and other collaboration. 
Kyield is the ideal OS for corporate or independent networks in reinsurance, property, casualty, life, or health. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Energy Companies</Name><Description>Oil and gas leaders share commonalities with pharmaceuticals with diminishing returns on investments, while 
smaller nimble companies achieve high growth. Similarly, both industries are strong in harvesting while slow to adopt 
state of the art organizational systems for crisis prevention and expediting discovery. 
</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Healthcare Organizations</Name><Description>With unsustainable fundamentals, the U.S. healthcare market faces an uncertain future. A high degree of 
certainty exists for continued rapid innovation, new discoveries, and transformation of models worldwide. The Kyield 
semantic healthcare platform is a pioneer in empowering patients and healthcare knowledge workers. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Retailers</Name><Description>Among the most impacted by digital disruption, retail is also among the most innovative with customer analytics. 
Some are missing an historic opportunity to benefit from the insight of a large workforce who often recognize emerging 
trends from the front lines. Enterprise-wide analytics may be to future leaders what logistics was to current leaders. 
</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Investors</Name><Description>No other sector has the potential to gain both a short-term and long-term ROI from Kyield’s platform for 
tailored data consumption with advanced analytics. Similar to banking and healthcare, the option to extend Kyield 
modules to customers of investment houses provides an additional compelling business case to consider. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Technology Companies</Name><Description>Technology: Electronics and software are deeply involved in technical areas related to Kyield, yet many have missed 
mega trends in recent years. Missed opportunity and disrupted markets are preventable. Kyield has been engaged with 
multiple leaders in this sector as prospective customers and partners. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Public Sector</Name><Description>Military &amp; Government: The IMF has a nickname that seems particularly applicable to governments in this era: "It's mostly fiscal". The challenge for the public sector is more with removing barriers to innovation than unlocking value. The 
maturity of interoperable data standards with the Kyield OS is a powerful combination for military and government. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Industries</Name><Description>All other industries: Whether engineering, consulting, education, publishing, transportation, hospitality, wholesale, networks, associations, or NGOs, Kyield has attracted interest. The ability to self-tailor data management with advanced 
analytics to highly specific needs at the granular individual entity level is fundamental to all organizations. </Description></Stakeholder></Organization><Vision><Description>Dynamic Neural Network -- Inspired by Nature. Managed by Humans.  Assisted by Artificial Intelligence.</Description><Identifier>_e28b8341-b853-11e3-8a00-0a8b2a530574</Identifier></Vision><Mission><Description>To enable continuous adaption of enterprise IT</Description><Identifier>_e28b8342-b853-11e3-8a00-0a8b2a530574</Identifier></Mission><Value><Name>Knowledge</Name><Description/></Value><Value><Name>Interoperability</Name><Description>Value and Compliance in Era of Digital Convergence -- 
Interoperability in neural networks is enabling rapid convergence 
of functionality and consolidation of legacy product value in both 
consumer and enterprise markets. Industry lines are becoming 
blurred and acronyms in enterprise IT are becoming obsolete. 
Not only are record human-caused crises and big bang 
disruptions becoming common, so too are record crises, fines, 
lawsuits and complex regulations. It is not by accident that 
technical standards in technology, energy, healthcare, banking, 
insurance and the Web are well matched for Kyield’s architecture. 
Kyield’s founder has collaborated with researchers and standards 
bodies for nearly two decades on improving interoperability, 
sustainable economics, and security in the network environment. 
Kyield’s breakthrough system design for managing data analytics 
vastly reduces the cost of future integration, consolidates select 
legacy product value across several industry acronyms, and 
provides entirely new value through the proprietary CKO Engine. </Description></Value><Goal><Name>Human-Caused Crises</Name><Description>Prevent Human-Caused Crises</Description><Identifier>_e28b8343-b853-11e3-8a00-0a8b2a530574</Identifier><SequenceIndicator>1</SequenceIndicator><Stakeholder><Name/><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation>Examples of destructive systemic crises enabled by 
digital silos that could have been either prevented or 
mitigated include 9/11 and the financial crisis, which 
combined are estimated to have cost over $10 trillion 
before loss of life and human suffering. Large 
preventable corporate events include the BP Gulf oil 
spill, JPMC whale trade, and Costa Concordia cruise 
ship disaster, with recent focus on falsified data in 
pharmaceutical R&amp;D. 
Smaller more consistent preventable events include 
malintent, insider fraud, chemical spills, product 
defects, and mislabeling, with cover-ups that cause 
significant distractions to operations, large lawsuits, 
regulatory investigations, fines, reputation damage, 
downgrades, equity devaluations, and management 
changes. Nearly two decades of research supports 
Kyield's expectation that over 90% of human-caused 
crises can be prevented with a full Kyield system 
install. </OtherInformation><Objective><Name/><Description/><Identifier>_e28b8344-b853-11e3-8a00-0a8b2a530574</Identifier><SequenceIndicator/><Stakeholder><Name/><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation/></Objective></Goal><Goal><Name>Human Discoveries </Name><Description>Expedite Human Discoveries </Description><Identifier>_e28b8345-b853-11e3-8a00-0a8b2a530574</Identifier><SequenceIndicator>2</SequenceIndicator><Stakeholder><Name/><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation>In addition to the critical traditional need to remain 
competitive with fresh, relevant products and services, 
disruptions are in process or threatening to redefine, 
transform, or displace entire industries. Companies 
that are highly dependent upon IC and IP must 
maintain a strong pipeline in order to thrive in the 
future, if not survive. 
Among the most compelling reasons for Kyield’s 
patented holistic system architecture is that risk 
management is increasingly inseparable from 
continuous innovation for knowledge intensive 
industries. The same deeply structured data Kyield 
analyzes for risk management and crisis prevention is 
processed with different algorithms for innovation and 
discoveries. The continually adaptive nature of Kyield 
with knowledge currency tailored to each entity is 
carefully crafted to encourage innovation, while 
analytics programs are constantly seeking to expedite 
and uncover discoveries. </OtherInformation><Objective><Name/><Description/><Identifier>_e28b8346-b853-11e3-8a00-0a8b2a530574</Identifier><SequenceIndicator/><Stakeholder><Name/><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation/></Objective></Goal><Goal><Name>Digital Workplace Optimization</Name><Description>Optimizing the digital workplace environment while meeting or exceeding regulatory compliance.</Description><Identifier>_e28b8347-b853-11e3-8a00-0a8b2a530574</Identifier><SequenceIndicator>3</SequenceIndicator><Stakeholder><Name/><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation>Kyield provides the ideal OS for optimizing the digital workplace environment while meeting or exceeding regulatory compliance. </OtherInformation><Objective><Name>CKO Engine</Name><Description>Empower organizations to manage information tailored to the specific needs of each entity within corporate and regulatory parameters.</Description><Identifier>_e28b8348-b853-11e3-8a00-0a8b2a530574</Identifier><SequenceIndicator>3.1</SequenceIndicator><Stakeholder><Name/><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation>The CKO Engine is the most complex component of  the Kyield design, providing yield management for the entire distributed organization. Through a combination 
of structured data standards, patented system design, proprietary programming, and extensive tradecraft, the CKO Engine empowers the organization to self-manage information tailored to the specific needs of each entity within corporate and regulatory parameters.
The flexible CKO architecture enables relationship management throughout the system, ability to refine human performance metrics, and adapt to regional 
language and culture issues while meeting or exceeding regulatory compliance. 
* Security for all modules in system. 
* Regulatory and business rules for system. 
* Pre-configured queries tailored to each entity. 
* Automated audits and reporting. 
* System-wide algorithms and ratios. 
* Baseline predictive analytics across system. 
* Integration with pre-installed programs. 
* Geared for continuous improvement. 
* Increasing cognitive intelligence. 
* Knowledge currency throughout system. 
* Training and certification provided. </OtherInformation></Objective><Objective><Name>Data Management &amp; Analytics</Name><Description>Provide business units with tailored adaptive data management and data analytics necessary to achieve their goals.</Description><Identifier>_e28b8349-b853-11e3-8a00-0a8b2a530574</Identifier><SequenceIndicator>3.2</SequenceIndicator><Stakeholder><Name>Business Units </Name><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation>Group Module 
The Group Module provides business units with tailored adaptive data management and data analytics necessary to achieve their specific goals. 
* Tailored analytics to each group. 
* Self-tailored curriculum for projects &amp; goals. 
* Enable new teams &amp; individuals. 
* Optimal queries &amp; streaming. 
* Visually interpret metrics for group. 
* Continuously adaptive. 
* Minimal training required. </OtherInformation></Objective><Objective><Name>Knowledge Optimization</Name><Description>[Enable] knowledge workers to optimize knowledge yield for their specific needs.</Description><Identifier>_e28b834a-b853-11e3-8a00-0a8b2a530574</Identifier><SequenceIndicator>3.3</SequenceIndicator><Stakeholder><Name>Knowledge Workers</Name><Description>Whether observing risk management and crisis 
prevention, cost containment, innovation, discovery, or 
growth opportunities, a consistent stream of evidence 
reconfirms the criticality of attracting, training, and 
retaining competitive individual knowledge workers. 
Intellectual capital is the fastest growing asset class in 
the world, reflected in the value creation sourced from 
individuals and small teams reaching into billions USD 
regularly, with compensation packages for specialized 
software engineers, gamers, traders, and investors 
well into the millions USD. In crisis prevention, multi-billion dollar events caused by individuals and small 
teams now number in the dozens. A few cases have 
reached the tens of billions USD in multiple sectors. 
More challenging for many companies are changing 
motivations and models that exploit ideological 
activism containing significant economic consequences 
that can disrupt or displace industries. The trends in IC 
clearly confirm the need to attract and retain the best 
and brightest knowledge workers, including offering 
systems that realize the potential in IC investments as 
well as prevent crises and mitigate loss of IC, IP, 
talent, and trade secrets. 
Kyield’s individual modules interact with group modules 
and the CKO engine to tailor streaming content and 
search queries according to the adaptive profile of 
each. Individuals can set the quality and quantity of 
personal information flow depending on project needs 
and time constraints with three clicks of the mouse. 
The system design supports the needs of each 
individual, team, business unit and organization. Kyield 
is transparent, intelligent, adaptive, and simple to use. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Competitive Organizations</Name><Description/></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Partners</Name><Description>Partners and Ecosystems -- 
The neural network economy now represents half of 
the global economy, which relies on sharing data to 
create, find, describe, and transact most types of 
products, services and value. Regardless of size and 
type of organization, external knowledge, expertise, 
assets, and relationships are typically required to 
conduct business and trade. Top-tier knowledge-based 
companies are therefore realizing that they need to 
become the partner of choice in order to thrive, 
particularly during this era of digital convergence and 
transformation. Choice in partnering varies depending 
on a number of factors, including motivation, culture, 
quality, risk, strategic match, and terms. Trust is often 
cited as the most important factor in partnering, which 
depends substantially on the integrity of systems 
deployed to execute tasks and manage relationships. 
While collaboration capabilities have improved in the 
network era, commoditized off-the-shelf software 
programs lack differentiation or the analytical depth 
needed to remain competitive. In addition, networks 
are insecure and data typically contains insufficient 
structure for efficiency levels needed to achieve 
optimal yield. Since traditional software applications fall 
well short of providing the architecture required for 
effectively managing multi-organization neural 
networks, an entirely new holistic architecture 
specifically designed for the task was necessary. 
Sufficient intelligence must be extracted from deeply 
structured data embedded in and across the workflow, 
providing a semantic layer that can then be analyzed 
for risk, opportunity and improving quality and 
productivity. Critically important is the ability provided 
by Kyield for partners in the ecosystem to quickly adapt 
to changing needs with their natural language. In order 
to establish and maintain trust, all partners are 
empowered to verify the integrity of data in a 
transparent manner. Kyield can provide an additional 
layer of data-centric security with proprietary 
methodology for qualifying and quantifying counter 
party risk. 
The duration of Kyield's initial R&amp;D was long-term, due 
in part to innovations necessary in underlying hardware 
and software technology to enable sufficient scalability, 
and in part due to maturation of industry data 
standards for interoperability.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Knowledge-Based Companies</Name><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation>The Individual Module is critical for competitive organizations. Most value in IC, IP, innovation, risk, and opportunity can be sourced to specific individuals.  The output of the organization is increasingly dependent upon the ability of individual knowledge workers to optimize knowledge yield for their specific needs in the digital work environment. 
* Tailored streaming content, queries &amp; returns. 
* Visual performance metrics. 
* Productivity management. 
* Automated and semi-automated controls.</OtherInformation></Objective></Goal></StrategicPlanCore><AdministrativeInformation><StartDate/><EndDate/><PublicationDate>2014-03-30</PublicationDate><Source>http://kyield.com/images/Kyield_Brochure.pdf</Source><Submitter><FirstName>Owen</FirstName><LastName>Ambur</LastName><PhoneNumber/><EmailAddress>Owen.Ambur@verizon.net</EmailAddress></Submitter></AdministrativeInformation></StrategicPlan>