NORTH AMERICA’S MOST ADMIRED KNOWLEDGE ENTERPRISES ANNOUNCED Date Added 7/12/2005
The winners of the 2005 North American Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study, conducted by Teleos in association with The KNOW Network, are (in alphabetical order): Buckman Laboratories, Dell, Fluor, General Electric, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, Raytheon, SAIC, Southwest Airlines and 3M.
A panel of North American Fortune Global 500 senior executives and internationally-recognized knowledge management and intellectual capital experts chose the 2005 North American MAKE Winners. The panel rated organizations founded and headquartered in North America against a framework of eight key knowledge performance dimensions which are the visible drivers of competitive advantage. The 2005 North American MAKE Winners have been recognized as leaders in:
- creating a corporate knowledge-driven culture
- developing knowledge workers through senior management leadership
- delivering knowledge-based products/solutions
- maximizing enterprise intellectual capital
- creating an environment for collaborative knowledge sharing
- creating a learning organization
- delivering value based on customer knowledge
- transforming enterprise knowledge into shareholder value
Wow! What an achievement!
I’m sure the rest of us involved in the conception, development and deployment of this system are proud. In spite of the career-limiting challenges and confrontations with senior management to actually embrace and support change in the corporation, the knowledge management system prevailed. Phil Carroll, regardless of all the crap that came down from the other executives while he was leading this organization and after he left, planted a seed from which Fluor’s success is based. Lets give the man some well-deserved credit for changing this organization.