Business Model

No. 8: Kenex Knowledge Systems

[ Last Updated 21 October 2005 ]

Kenex is a business that sits squarely in the field of "knowledge working". Kenex creates knowledge products by applying the specialist skills of the partners in combination with the capabilities of the GIS software to information provided by clients and the GIS data bases compiled by Kenex and its partner organisations.⁴ Thus, Kenex is a "knowledge firm" that applies human capital (in the form of geological knowledge, business development and analysis skills, GIS development and analysis skills, etc.), information capital (in the form of its databases and software), and physical capital (computer hardware) to client information to create the desired "knowledge outputs". These outputs can take many forms, for example:

Customised interactive GIS packages such as the samples displayed on the Kenex website [link to external website] showing prospectivity for specific minerals in specific locations and permit details for specific areas;
GIS data documentation; and
Geological consulting reports.

⁴Kenex has built up its core GIS databases from a combination of geological information collected by Crown Minerals as a by-product of its minerals permit management process, research databases owned by the Crown Research Enterprise Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS) and land information data sources such as Terralink and Land Information New Zealand. Much of the initial data for the Kenex databases comes from publicly available data held by New Zealand crown-owned bodies.

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Printed: 09/11/2009