Teleos Announces 2006 World's Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises

London, United Kingdom , 2006-06-27

Teleos has announced the winners of the 9th annual Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study. Toyota is the overall Global MAKE Winner for the second year in a row.

The winners of the 2006 Global MAKE study, conducted by Teleos in association with The KNOW Network, are (in alphabetical order):
-- Accenture
-- Apple Computer
-- BHP Billiton
-- Buckman Laboratories
-- Dell
-- Ernst & Young
-- Fluor
-- Google
-- Hewlett-Packard
-- Honda Motor
-- McKinsey
-- Microsoft
-- Novo Nordisk
-- PricewaterhouseCoopers
-- Samsung Group
-- Sony
-- Tata Group
-- 3M
-- Toyota Motor Corporation
-- Unilever

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 2006 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 and intellectual capital growth. The 2006 Global 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

2006 Global MAKE study findings include:

-- Knowledge-driven organizations significantly out-perform their competitors. For the ten-year period 1995-2005, the Total Return to Shareholders (TRS) for the publicly-traded 2006
Global MAKE Winners was 24.2% -- double that of the Fortune 500 company median.

-- the capability to innovate and create new products 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 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 "2006 Global MAKE Report" -- E-mail: [email protected]

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