What is The KNOW Network?
The KNOW Network is a global Web-based professional knowledge sharing network. Its principal aim is to help you create the best possible level of performance across your organization by building on the know-how and skills of world-class knowledge-driven enterprises.
The KNOW Network is not a ‘talking shop’ or an academic think tank. The KNOW Network focuses exclusively on helping you identify, adopt, manage and improve specific Knowledge Best Practices, ranging from increasing your organization’s Intellectual Capital through Innovation to developing Social Networks to creating a Learning Organization. Using the latest Internet technology, The KNOW Network brings you an array of Web-based services to expand and improve your organization’s performance by:
• developing new insights and strategies based on exclusive access to proprietary research, including the Global and regional Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) studies.
• conducting Organizational Knowledge Audits and Enterprise MAKE Assessments with proprietary KNOW Network tools.
• using The KNOW Network databases of Best Knowledge Practices to conduct regular self-assessment audits and external benchmarking comparisons.
• facilitating the transfer of Best Knowledge Practices quickly and efficiently into your organization.
• contacting the best minds in knowledge organizations around the world.
• learning from KNOW Network members with relevant expertise and experience – they will be happy to share it with you.
• keeping in touch with the latest thinking and approaches to knowledge creation, sharing and use.
• integrating your knowledge management practices into overall enterprise strategy.
"Creating and enhancing enterprise intellectual capital is an integral endeavor at Infosys and the company’s resilience during the ongoing period of economic strife has much to do with our ability to transform our knowledge capital into true customer and shareholder value."
“Kris” S. Gopalakrishnan, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Our World-Class Members
Members of The KNOW Network include many of the leading blue-chip knowledge organizations around the world, including: Accenture, Asian Development Bank, Asian Productivity Organization, Booz Allen Hamilton, CECA, ConocoPhillips, Danisco, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Dunamis, eClerx, Ernst & Young, Eureka Forbes, Fluor, Fuji Xerox, Garrigues, Gas Natural Fenosa, Government of Singapore, Heineken, Iberdrola, IBM, iGATE Global Solutions, Incheon International Airport Corporation, Infosys Technologies, Korea Customs Service, Korea Water Resources Corporation, KPMG, Kraft Foods, Larsen & Toubro (E&C Division), Malaysian Central Bank, Merck, MindTree, Nalco, Neusoft, New Zealand Ministry of Transport, Petrobras, POSCO, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Reliance Industries, Royal Dutch Shell, Samsung SDS, Schlumberger, Siemens, SKF, Tata Chemicals, Tata Steel, TVS Motor, Unisys, Uria Menendez and Wipro Technologies.
“Under the current tough economy, a company’s strength plays a more important role than in a stable business situation. The strength comes from the value of that company, which can be created only by people sharing knowledge.”
Shigeomi Kubota, Division Director, Corporate Planning Division, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
“We view knowledge sharing and collaboration as critical to our success and fundamental components of our business.”
Doug Weiss, Executive Global Leader, Learning and Knowledge, IBM Global Business Services
Services
The annual membership fee of $2995 US Dollars [€1895 Euros or £1495 UK Sterling] (membership fee inclusive of VAT for UK-based subscribers) gives members in The KNOW Network the comprehensive Internet resources and benefits listed below through 24/7 access to the proprietary, secure KNOW Network Website. Up to 100 employees – located anywhere in the world – can take full advantages of The KNOW Network as part of an organizational membership. Membership includes:
• Access to proprietary Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) research, including findings, metrics and analyses for the Global, Asian, European, India, Indonesian, Japanese and North American studies. KNOW Network members who are MAKE Winners or Finalists receive a customized report, including their individual rankings and analysis.
• Enterprise MAKE Assessment for rapidly assessing the commitment and maturity of an organization's knowledge strategy. It is based on the MAKE framework consisting of eight knowledge performance dimensions.
• Organizational Knowledge Audit for rapidly assessing the strengths/weaknesses of an organization's knowledge strategy. It is based on The KNOW Network's taxonomy of over 150 knowledge processes.
• Electronic TKN Alert service delivering the latest Best Practice knowledge management news, research and resources directly to your e-mail address.
• KNOW Network Management First Digital Library containing full access to 12 key journals in the areas of knowledge management, intellectual capital, innovation, organizational learning and business excellence, plus business reports, interviews, analysis and editorial opinion.
• Case Study Library of leading knowledge enterprises and their knowledge management strategies and approaches.
• RSS on a range of knowledge sharing and collaboration topics.
• A proprietary, secure database of KNOW Network member organizations, containing their Best Knowledge Practices in more than 150 knowledge process capabilities.
• The Knowledge Center with the latest news, summaries of market research and surveys, links to essential resources, and much more.
"Fluor’s culture of teamwork and breadth of expertise creates value for our clients and differentiates us from our competition."
David Seaton, Chief Operating Officer, Fluor Corporation
Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises
A unique benefit to members of The KNOW Network is access to all of the internationally-recognized Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) reports since 1998, including, metrics and analyses. These studies are based on the MAKE framework of eight key knowledge performance dimensions that are visible drivers of world-class knowledge organizations:
• creating an enterprise knowledge-driven culture
• developing knowledge workers through senior management leadership
• delivering knowledge-based products/services/solutions
• maximizing enterprise intellectual capital
• creating an enterprise environment for collaborative knowledge sharing • creating a learning organization
• delivering value based on customer/stakeholder knowledge
• transforming enterprise knowledge into shareholder/stakeholder value
"It has always been our top priority in Samsung SDS to take knowledge management into the next level by having knowledge integrated into our day-to-day operational fabric. In particular, we are marrying Web 2.0 with knowledge management in an enterprise setting to unlock knowledge-based collaboration capacity to the fullest extent."
In Kim, President of Samsung SDS
Based on these eight knowledge performance dimensions, The KNOW Network has developed a database of more than 150 Knowledge Best Practices which provide an efficient and effective method of transferring know-how and knowledge skills into any organization.
The 2009 Global MAKE Award Winners are (alphabetically): Accenture, Apple, British Broadcasting Corporation, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young, Fluor, General Electric, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Infosys Technologies, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, Nokia, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Samsung, Schlumberger, Tata, Toyota and Wipro Technologies.
Half of this year’s Global MAKE Winners are members of The KNOW Network!
"We feel knowledge sharing is critical to our success in providing an excellent legal service to our clients because knowledge is what we sell and so, our most important asset."
Jose Maria Segovia, Managing Partner of Uria Menendez
"Unilever Indonesia has been established in Indonesia for 75 years, one of our key organizational successes is in managing the knowledge by using knowledge creation, use and re-use to raise the bar and improve our performance. We keep bringing our wealth of knowledge and international expertise to serve and provide the best quality of products for our consumers, customers and community."
Chairman, Unilever Indonesia
Join The KNOW Network – E-mail for a Membership Application Form:
Rory L. Chase, Managing Director
The KNOW Network
5 St. Julian's Avenue
Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 1ET
United Kingdom
Tel/Fax: +44 1584 878576
E-mail: know_network@mac.com
Website: http://www.knowledgebusiness.com
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