Teleos has announced the winners of the 10th annual Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study. For the first time, McKinsey & Company has been named the overall Global MAKE Winner.
The winners of the 2007 Global MAKE study, conducted by Teleos in association with The KNOW Network, are (alphabetically):
- Accenture (Global)
- Apple (United States)
- BP (United Kingdom)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (United Kingdom)
- Ernst & Young (Global)
- Fluor (United States)
- General Electric (United States)
- Google (United States)
- IBM (United States)
- Infosys Technologies (India)
- Intel (United States)
- McKinsey & Company (Global)
- Microsoft (United States)
- Nokia (Finland)
- Royal Dutch Shell (The Netherlands/United Kingdom)
- Samsung Group (S. Korea)
- 3M (United States)
- Toyota (Japan)
- Wikipedia (Global)
- Wipro Technologies (India)
Rory Chase, managing director of Teleos, said: "These organizations have been recognized as global leaders in effectively transforming enterprise knowledge into wealth-creating ideas, products and solutions. They are building portfolios of intellectual capital and intangible assets which will enable them to out-perform their competitors now and in the future."
A panel of Global Fortune 500 senior executives and internationally-recognized knowledge management/intellectual capital experts chose the 2007 Global MAKE Winners. The panel rated organizations against the MAKE framework of eight key knowledge performance dimensions which are the visible drivers of competitive advantage. The 2007 Global MAKE Winners have been recognized as leaders in:
- creating a corporate knowledge-driven culture
- developing knowledge workers through senior management leadership
- innovation
- maximizing enterprise intellectual capital
- creating an environment for collaborative knowledge sharing
- organizational learning
- delivering value based on customer knowledge
- transforming enterprise knowledge into stakeholder value
2007 Global MAKE study findings include:
- Knowledge-driven organizations significantly out-perform their competitors. For the ten-year period 1996-2006, the Total Return to Shareholders (TRS) for the publicly-traded 2007 Global MAKE Winners was 22.6% -- over twice that of the Fortune 500 company median.
- the capability to innovate and create new products/services/solutions is seen as 'the' competitive advantage across a wide range of business sectors.
- As a result of globalization, most key business sectors will have only 3-5 global leaders by the year 2010.
TELEOS
Teleos, an independent knowledge management and intellectual capital research firm, administers the Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) program. The KNOW Network is a Web-based global community of organizations dedicated to achieving superior performance through benchmarking, networking and best practice knowledge sharing. The Teleos home page is: http://www.knowledgebusiness.com
The MAKE research program consists of the annual Global MAKE study -- the international benchmark for best practice knowledge organizations -- and regional/national studies, including Asia, Europe, India, Indonesia, Japan and North America.
Contact Teleos for a free Executive Summary of the "2007 Global MAKE Report" -- E-mail: teleos@mac.com
