See this at: thehindubusinessline...| Added on 02/13/07

IN 1902, twenty-three years after Thomas Alva Edison invented the electric bulb in 1879, the company he founded, the General Electric Company, was in India building a hydro-electric plant. A hundred years later, Edison's successor, Mr Jeff Immelt,... See more

IN 1902, twenty-three years after Thomas Alva Edison invented the electric bulb in 1879, the company he founded, the General Electric Company, was in India building a hydro-electric plant. A hundred years later, Edison's successor, Mr Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of the company that is now called simply GE, is in India seeking to enthuse the 18,000 work force here to enlarge what is already a multi-billion dollar operation. His company is still in the electric bulb business it pioneered, but it fancies itself in many more: 31 separate businesses in India, including financial services, medical equipment, call centres and software. Fifteen years ago, GE perceived India as a potentially huge market for its products, but it guessed wrong: the market has not grown fast enough. Instead, it discovered India's treasure was its intellectual capital, the ability to do software and engineering design, a strength the company is exploiting in increasing measure. GE accounts for 8 per cent of... See less

See this at: hindu.com| Added on 02/13/07

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING: Students acquiring knowledge through satellite based education in India. WHILE ACKNOWLEDGING that foreign direct investment (FDI) and infrastructure contributed in a large measure to China's blistering growth, economists are... See more

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING: Students acquiring knowledge through satellite based education in India. WHILE ACKNOWLEDGING that foreign direct investment (FDI) and infrastructure contributed in a large measure to China's blistering growth, economists are beginning to express concern over the efficiency with which this capital is being used. They are also beginning to recognise that India makes much better use of its overall capital. In a recent article in Financial Times, Yasheng Huang points out that in 2003 and 2004 , China was investing 50 per cent of its GDP in plant and equipment — a rate twice that of India. Yet, in the period April-June 2005, by which time this investment would have started showing results, India's GDP grew at 8.1 per cent, not too far behind China's 9 per cent. The author also points out that during 2001-05, the Shanghai stock market index dropped from 2200 points to 1135 points. In the same period, India's main stock market index zoomed from 2500 points to 10000! Not... See less

See this at: knowledgeboard.com| Added on 02/11/07

There is a wide agreement that the benefits of Communities of Practice are very hard to measure. Therefore CoP sponsoring is a difficult sell in corporate environments, on indeed anywhere that resources are managed. Intuitive evidence and personal... See more

There is a wide agreement that the benefits of Communities of Practice are very hard to measure. Therefore CoP sponsoring is a difficult sell in corporate environments, on indeed anywhere that resources are managed. Intuitive evidence and personal experience of users suggest that a good CoP creates enormous value, but pinning it down in a financial report is another matter. There have been attempts at it, mainly along three lines: - Anecdote-driven. Best described theoretically by Richard McDermott [1], it has been extensively used in large industrial CoPs. It relies on capturing and documenting individual instances of value-adding actions directly related to the activity of the CoP, and translating those anecdotes into hard, conservative estimates of gained (or saved) revenue. - Indirect measurement. Most popular in development agencies and government bodies [India. Canada]. It relies on estimates of the effects of CoPs through the evolution of the issues they were created to solve:... See less

See this at: marketpsych.com| Added on 02/10/07

What is Neurofinance? Neurofinance is the study and application of neuroscience to investment activity. Investment activity includes evaluating, buying, or selling securities. This webpage is dedicated to the application of neuroscience to investment... See more

What is Neurofinance? Neurofinance is the study and application of neuroscience to investment activity. Investment activity includes evaluating, buying, or selling securities. This webpage is dedicated to the application of neuroscience to investment activity by portfolio managers, financial analysts, and traders in public financial markets. Public financial markets are excellent for study because they have extensive historical data and a clear feedback mechanism - obvious "success" (make money) and "failure" (lose money) criteria. Both the markets themselves and individual investors, through their trading records, can be studied. Neuroscience research examines how the brain perceives, processes, evaluates, understands, and decides based on input from the outside world. Neuroscience is the study of the operations of the brain (previously understood as a "black box"). Input into the "Box" comes from the environment via the five basic senses (taste, touch, smell, hearing, and vision... See less

See this at: economist.com| Added on 11/19/06

WHICH country is best at fostering and using knowledge and skills? The answer to that might also tell you which country will be most successful economically since knowledge is held to be the key to growth; the European Union has grandiloquently set... See more

WHICH country is best at fostering and using knowledge and skills? The answer to that might also tell you which country will be most successful economically since knowledge is held to be the key to growth; the European Union has grandiloquently set itself the target of becoming “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world”. Until now, though, it has been frustratingly hard to measure who is fostering knowledge best. Instead, there have been partial indicators, such as who spends what on research and development. Or there have been indicators of something slightly different, such as competitiveness rankings compiled by the World Economic Forum, the organisers of annual conferences in Davos. Hence the value of a brave stab at measuring knowledge and skills, broadly defined. It comes from two European think-tanks, the Lisbon Council in Brussels and the Frankfurt-based Deutschland Denken (Think Germany), and has been devised by Peer Ederer of the Zeppelin... See less

See this at: knowledgeboard.com| Added on 11/19/06

22-Sep-06 There is a wide agreement that the benefits of Communities of Practice are very hard to measure. Therefore CoP sponsoring is a difficult sell in corporate environments, on indeed anywhere that resources are managed. Intuitive evidence and... See more

22-Sep-06 There is a wide agreement that the benefits of Communities of Practice are very hard to measure. Therefore CoP sponsoring is a difficult sell in corporate environments, on indeed anywhere that resources are managed. Intuitive evidence and personal experience of users suggest that a good CoP creates enormous value, but pinning it down in a financial report is another matter. There have been attempts at it, mainly along three lines: - Anecdote-driven. Best described theoretically by Richard McDermott [1], it has been extensively used in large industrial CoPs. It relies on capturing and documenting individual instances of value-adding actions directly related to the activity of the CoP, and translating those anecdotes into hard, conservative estimates of gained (or saved) revenue. - Indirect measurement. Most popular in development agencies and government bodies [India. Canada]. It relies on estimates of the effects of CoPs through the evolution of the issues they were created... See less

See this at: kmworld.com| Added on 11/19/06

The IDC marketplace is active and dynamic, characterized by mergers, acquisitions, repositioning and new entrants. In the first part of this article, we covered ABBYY, Brainware, Document Strategies and its Xerox alliance, EMC Captiva, DICOM's Kofax... See more

The IDC marketplace is active and dynamic, characterized by mergers, acquisitions, repositioning and new entrants. In the first part of this article, we covered ABBYY, Brainware, Document Strategies and its Xerox alliance, EMC Captiva, DICOM's Kofax unit and ReadSoft. Here are a few more leading players in this developing market: AnyDoc Software made its name with its forms processing product, OCR for Forms, which gained a reputation in the industry as a durable, cost-effective, straightforward product for lower-volume demands. Renamed OCR for AnyDoc, the offering now includes the ability to process structured and unstructured forms. It contains a rules engine where rules are created to help the system determine valid data when it is performing the recognition process (e.g. valid date ranges, two-way purchase order-invoice matching). Similar to ReadSoft's product naming convention, AnyDoc offers various flavors of the product targeted at vertical or departmental applications like... See less

See this at: kmworld.com| Added on 11/19/06

Competitive intelligence (CI) has attracted plenty of attention recently because of the explosion of information publicly available now through blogs, wikis, text messages, e-mail and other electronic communications, which form the basis for building... See more

Competitive intelligence (CI) has attracted plenty of attention recently because of the explosion of information publicly available now through blogs, wikis, text messages, e-mail and other electronic communications, which form the basis for building meaningful competitive intelligence. David Carpe, founder and principal of the competitive intelligence firm Clew, calls the growth in publicly available information the biggest change in the industry over the last few years. According to a report by Technorati (technorati.com) earlier this year, the number of blogs, for example, grows by more than 75,000 each day. Sometimes competitive intelligence is confused with business intelligence. (See business intelligence article also in this issue.) Carpe explains, "The difference between business intelligence and competitive intelligence is that business intelligence relies on quantitative information, while competitive intelligence relies on qualitative information." Uncovering qualitative... See less

See this at: business-intelligenc...| Added on 10/26/06

Measuring Knowledge and Intellectual Capital is packed with case studies and example of how world-class organizations are charting the way forward in knowledge measurement, including GlaxoSmithKline, Shell, Australia’s Commonwealth Government... See more

Measuring Knowledge and Intellectual Capital is packed with case studies and example of how world-class organizations are charting the way forward in knowledge measurement, including GlaxoSmithKline, Shell, Australia’s Commonwealth Government Department, Lincoln Re (now part of Swiss Re), Saatchi & Saatchi, Borealis, American Productivity & Quality Centre, W-M Data, Carl Bro Group, Austrian Research Centre (Seibersdorf) and many others. Find out how: Skandia AFS demonstrates leadership in the measurement of intellectual capital at the highest level. Through the enthusiasm and guidance of its one-time director of intellectual capital, Leif Edvinsson, the company has developed a business value model, its own IC tool, the Skandia Navigator and other tools and methods. To download a sample from a case report on how Skandia AFS achieved this click here Sears Roebuck’s measurement model, based on an evolving set of processes for data collection, analysis, modeling and experimentation, has... See less

See this at: ib.hu-berlin.de| Added on 10/26/06

Digital working computers can be used like intelligent 'message meters' - for measurement of information, knowledge, noise, and redundancy. All these forms have to be measured in bits. Computer programs, for the detection of redundancy or the... See more

Digital working computers can be used like intelligent 'message meters' - for measurement of information, knowledge, noise, and redundancy. All these forms have to be measured in bits. Computer programs, for the detection of redundancy or the elimination of noise, are existing and improvable. Knowledge has to be seen as an extremely efficient information compression. It is understood as an information that can be explained, that means that we are able to anticipate or even to predict many occurrences. Knowledge measurement is economically important for the digital library, for the scientific community, and also for an improved estimation of intelligence in computers and creatures. In the late winter of 1943/44 in Princeton (N.Y.) N. Wiener and J. v. Neumann arranged a meeting with other mathematicians like J. W. Tukey, engineers, and physiologists. They found that it was convenient to measure information in terms of numbers of yeses and noes and to call this unit of information a bit.... See less

See this at: knowingknowledge.com| Added on 10/25/06

Knowledge is changing. It develops faster, it changes more quickly, and it is more central to organizational success than in any other time in history. Our schools, universities, corporations, and non-profit organizations, need to adapt. We need to... See more

Knowledge is changing. It develops faster, it changes more quickly, and it is more central to organizational success than in any other time in history. Our schools, universities, corporations, and non-profit organizations, need to adapt. We need to change the spaces and structures of our society to align with the new context and characteristics of knowledge. How we market, how we learn, how we build, how we collaborate - these are all changing. Most organizations are not prepared for the sea change washing ashore. We are conducting business in a manner that is no longer reflective of the market, or society as a whole. Knowing Knowledge is an exploration of knowledge - what it is, how it is changing, and what it means to our organizations and society. Knowing Knowledge will be available for purchase (or download) in early October 2006. Change pressures arise from different sectors of a system. At times it is mandated from the top of a hierarchy, other times it forms from participants at... See less

See this at: urenio.org| Added on 10/20/06

Business Intelligence (BI) offers a series of tools and techniques for data analysis, trends description, and evaluation. BI complement more traditional intelligence techniques, such as foresight, benchmarking, and assessment. BI technologies attempt... See more

Business Intelligence (BI) offers a series of tools and techniques for data analysis, trends description, and evaluation. BI complement more traditional intelligence techniques, such as foresight, benchmarking, and assessment. BI technologies attempt to help companies understand data from various fields of activity (suppliers, customers, internal, the web) more quickly so that they can make more informed and faster decisions. As Bob Lokken, President and CEO of Proclarity Enterprise Analytic Solutions, points out ‘Some BI technology aims to make the flow of data within an organization faster and more accessible (e.g., making standard reports easier to build, maintain, and distribute). Yet other, newer BI technologies take a more aggressive approach by redefining existing processes with new, more streamlined ones that eliminate entire steps or create new capabilities that are beyond the reach of legacy approaches.’ Typical BI technologies include reporting, online analytical processing... See less

See this at: urenio.org| Added on 10/20/06

said Cortright. “No single city performs best on all these metrics. And these metrics are very different than the traditional recipes of cutting taxes and building convention centers or arenas.” CityVitals enables urban leaders to assess their city’s... See more

said Cortright. “No single city performs best on all these metrics. And these metrics are very different than the traditional recipes of cutting taxes and building convention centers or arenas.” CityVitals enables urban leaders to assess their city’s performance on each of these four dimensions, to plot strategies to build on strengths and offset weaknesses, and establish a distinctive, winning and competitive strategy, he said. An Explanation of the Four Dimensions, Metro Performance and Core Vitality: The Talented City The indispensable asset in a knowledge economy is smart people. Cities are places where people build knowledge through education and experience. Cities attract smart people and create opportunities for them to develop and apply what they know. Measured by: * College Attainment * Creative Professionals * Young & Restless * Traded Sector Talent * International Talent The Innovative City The ability to generate new ideas and to turn those ideas into reality is a critical... See less

See this at: urenio.org| Added on 10/20/06

A useful article on Sunday’s edition of the International Herald Tribune explores the ways which corporations use the new idea-sharing networks in order to spur innovation and create successful new products and services. Two types of idea networks... See more

A useful article on Sunday’s edition of the International Herald Tribune explores the ways which corporations use the new idea-sharing networks in order to spur innovation and create successful new products and services. Two types of idea networks are presented: self-contained internal units used to propagate ideas to the senior management; and external independent networks such as InnoCentive that promise breakthrough discoveries based on sources outside the corporate walls. The author, William C. Taylor (co-founder and founding editor of Fast Company magazine), concentrates on the innovation practices of Rite-Solutions, a software company that builds advanced - and highly classified - command-and-control systems for the Navy. One interesting project at the company is an internal market where any employee can propose that the company acquire a new technology, enter a new business or make an efficiency improvement. These proposals become stocks, complete with ticker symbols, discussion... See less

See this at: strategy-business.co...| Added on 10/09/06

We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything,” said Thomas Alva Edison who probably wouldn’t have appreciated Professor Davenport’s observation that the most valuable asset companies have is the knowledge of their employees. More than... See more

We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything,” said Thomas Alva Edison who probably wouldn’t have appreciated Professor Davenport’s observation that the most valuable asset companies have is the knowledge of their employees. More than ever, companies are realizing that their real advantage lies in what they know. But how do you manage knowledge? Enunciating 10 principles of knowledge management, Professor Davenport establishes a framework which senior company executives can use to govern their approach to knowledge. He also uses the Hewlett-Packard Company, in an accompanying case study, to illustrate how rapidly the knowledge management concept can spread throughout a company even without a top-down mandate. Systems such as the World Wide Web and Lotus Notes are giving managers real opportunities to capture and distribute knowledge. Hewlett-Packard’s Product Processes Organization (P.P.O.), for example, has formed a Knowledge Management Group and is developing a... See less

See this at: knowledge.wharton.up...| Added on 10/05/06

It's always been assumed that one company's loss is another's gain when an employee jumps ship. Just think of the knowledge, experience and connections that go out the door along with a person's boxes and office belongings. But now a new study... See more

It's always been assumed that one company's loss is another's gain when an employee jumps ship. Just think of the knowledge, experience and connections that go out the door along with a person's boxes and office belongings. But now a new study suggests that losing an employee, at least in a high-tech field, is not necessarily as bad as it seems. "Firms can wind up learning when employees leave their firm, which is contrary to the conventional wisdom -- that firms learn by hiring away employees," says Wharton management professor Lori Rosenkopf. She and Wharton doctoral student Rafael A. Corredoira present their conclusions in a paper titled, "Learning from Those Who Left: The Reverse Transfer of Knowledge through Mobility Ties." The two researchers came up with their silver-lining finding by studying the effects of "outbound mobility" on semiconductor firms in the United States and abroad. By analyzing patent citations, they were able to show that companies can benefit from a reverse... See less

See this at: findarticles.com| Added on 09/11/06

NASCUNTUR AB HUMANO INGENIO OMNIA ARTIS INVENTORUMQUE OPERA * QUAE OPERA DIGNAM HOMINIBUS VITAM SAEPIUNT * REIPUBLICAE STUDIO PERSPICIENDUM EST ARTES INVENTAQUE TUTAR(1) The United Nations, despite new Secretary General Kofi Annan, continues to draw... See more

NASCUNTUR AB HUMANO INGENIO OMNIA ARTIS INVENTORUMQUE OPERA * QUAE OPERA DIGNAM HOMINIBUS VITAM SAEPIUNT * REIPUBLICAE STUDIO PERSPICIENDUM EST ARTES INVENTAQUE TUTAR(1) The United Nations, despite new Secretary General Kofi Annan, continues to draw hostile fire in the United States. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, bluntly demands further cuts in the "bloated" UN bureaucracy. Other officials, some largely supportive, wonder about an apparent UN death wish, pointing to the renewed effort to hamstring the Security Council, the refusal to embrace major house cleaning, and the resurgence of an inflammatory rhetoric that pits region against region. These controversies overshadow a real success story--the extraordinary achievements of the UN's most effective specialized agency, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). By working relentlessly to raise the level of protection for patents, copyrights, and trademarks... See less

See this at: linkedwords.com| Added on 09/08/06

LinkedWords.com® is unique concept built upon an innovative and intuitively WEB 2.0 functional web-based contextual platform. It contextually organizes the web, this way helping both the common users find and the publishers manage the information... See more

LinkedWords.com® is unique concept built upon an innovative and intuitively WEB 2.0 functional web-based contextual platform. It contextually organizes the web, this way helping both the common users find and the publishers manage the information easier and simpler. Learn more... See less

See this at: kikm.org| Added on 09/01/06

Our continuously improving knowledge of the patterns above, from the Computer Microchip, the Human Genome, the DNA Double Helix, Nanotechnology, and Satellite Imagery, will play a growing role in our lives going forward. We live and work increasingly... See more

Our continuously improving knowledge of the patterns above, from the Computer Microchip, the Human Genome, the DNA Double Helix, Nanotechnology, and Satellite Imagery, will play a growing role in our lives going forward. We live and work increasingly in a knowledge-driven economy. But what about the patterns that relate to knowledge itself ? We believe that the ability to identify, interpret, imagine, intuit, instruct, and intervene using Knowledge Pattern Recognition, is a fundamental competency for achieving success in the knowledge game. We have therefore been carrying out independent research into the collation and understanding of winning knowledge patterns for some time. We now have developed a toolkit to support our :- Knowledge Assessment & Strategy Consulting Services. In providing this service we are able to offer our clients rapid, cost efficient, strategic auditing and assessment of their organization's knowledge capabilities, knowledge gaps, and level of readiness for... See less

See this at: knowledge.wharton.up...| Added on 08/31/06

What do Wharton faculty members and the workers who spy for the National Security Agency have in common? More than you might think. The Wharton scholars aren't analyzing links among billions of telephone calls to identify terrorists, a controversial... See more

What do Wharton faculty members and the workers who spy for the National Security Agency have in common? More than you might think. The Wharton scholars aren't analyzing links among billions of telephone calls to identify terrorists, a controversial NSA activity that caused a stir after it was disclosed recently in news reports. But they, too, are interested in mapping social networks. Social networking is a hot topic. Ordinary Internet users take advantage of networks when they turn to well-known websites like MySpace and Friendster to link up with other people. But more serious interest in social networks can be found among academics, consultants and corporations seeking to deepen their knowledge of how companies operate; how employees and board members interact; how key employees can be identified; and how relationships can be better understood to improve productivity and the dissemination of ideas. Technically, social network research is an offshoot of graph theory in mathematics.... See less

See this at: knowledge.wharton.up...| Added on 08/31/06

Few would doubt that those who work in call centers have extremely high-pressure jobs. Workers are on the phone for hours at a time, dealing with unseen customers, some of whom, depending on the function of the particular call center, can be angry,... See more

Few would doubt that those who work in call centers have extremely high-pressure jobs. Workers are on the phone for hours at a time, dealing with unseen customers, some of whom, depending on the function of the particular call center, can be angry, or at the least, impatient. Pay is often skimpy and turnover is rampant. But as industry comes more and more to depend on humans working at phone banks to dispatch functions like sales, technical support and customer service and complaints, call centers have become vital and ubiquitous. Call Center Magazine, a trade journal for the industry, estimates that as many as 3.5 million people man phones in call centers. Though some call centers, particularly those dealing with complicated financial products or sophisticated technological equipment, require workers with particular skills, many of the centers employ relatively unskilled workers. Some characterize call centers as today’s factories, with those unskilled workers earning far less — from... See less

See this at: knowledge.wharton.up...| Added on 08/31/06

Yes, it pays to be friends of those who pay you, or even to be friends of their friends. That, roughly speaking, is the conclusion of a study analyzing the impact of director relationships on the compensation of chief executive officers. The study... See more

Yes, it pays to be friends of those who pay you, or even to be friends of their friends. That, roughly speaking, is the conclusion of a study analyzing the impact of director relationships on the compensation of chief executive officers. The study examined director connections as many as a dozen steps removed from each other among 22,074 directors at 3,114 companies across a broad spectrum of economic sectors. The sample is the largest ever examined for this purpose -- to analyze the structure and influence of social networks. Wharton accounting professors David F. Larcker, Scott A. Richardson and Irem Tuna, and Andrew J. Seary, an expert at the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, conducted the research and co-authored a paper entitled, "Back Door Links between Directors and Executive Compensation." The researchers call these links "the back door distance," defining that as "the minimum number of other company boards that is required to establish a... See less

See this at: knowledge.wharton.up...| Added on 08/31/06

You may choose to limit results for social network to the following source: Knowledge@Wharton Universia Knowledge@Wharton China Knowledge@Wharton Limit search to the exact phrase "social network"

You may choose to limit results for social network to the following source: Knowledge@Wharton Universia Knowledge@Wharton China Knowledge@Wharton Limit search to the exact phrase "social network" See less

See this at: google.pt| Added on 08/30/06

Baruch Lev: Most people think of putting intangibles on the balance sheet but this is not of great importance. What is important is to disclose the value of ... www.ironthenet.com/static/disclosure/USCanada/IntagiblesUpdate1202.htm - 14k - Em cache -... See more

Baruch Lev: Most people think of putting intangibles on the balance sheet but this is not of great importance. What is important is to disclose the value of ... www.ironthenet.com/static/disclosure/USCanada/IntagiblesUpdate1202.htm - 14k - Em cache - Páginas semelhantes See less

See this at: businessweek.com| Added on 08/23/06

Gordon Smith, chairman of U.S.-based business consultancy Aus Inc., said there is market evidence that Asian companies recognize the value of intangible assets such as IP. For instance, he noted, a sample of 18 companies listed on the Singapore stock... See more

Gordon Smith, chairman of U.S.-based business consultancy Aus Inc., said there is market evidence that Asian companies recognize the value of intangible assets such as IP. For instance, he noted, a sample of 18 companies listed on the Singapore stock exchange stated that at least one-fifth of their total assets are in intangible form. That fraction is even larger at consumer hi-tech companies, where intangibles comprise 75 percent of total assets. See less

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See this at: digital-web.com| Added on 08/24/06

Published on August 21, 2006 Every industry has its own version of the competitive analysis and its function is clear: to line up your product with other products and show where yours falls short and where yours is superior. Each industry brings a... See more

Published on August 21, 2006 Every industry has its own version of the competitive analysis and its function is clear: to line up your product with other products and show where yours falls short and where yours is superior. Each industry brings a different spin to this old favorite and user experience design has its own set of criteria by which to judge competitors. Take the simple competitive analysis shown in Table 5.1. See less