This certainly brings back memories. The Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) award has been around for some time. Back when I was with a large consulting company and involved in our knowledge management practice, I spoke at the awards meetings in London several times.  These were the days of better travel funding and the relatively early days of KM. I am pleased that this award is still around and still relevant. Knowledge management seems to be one of the longer running management initiatives. Now enterprise 2.0 has stepped up the potential for KM and better content curation is emerging as new capability. Darwin Ecosystem is designed to play a part in this trend. 

For the first time, Apple was named the overall Global MAKE Winner. North America took top honors with 7 Winners, followed by Asia (5 Winners) and Europe (3 Winners). Teleos in association with The KNOW Network conducts this award. There were also 5 'Global' Winners whose organizational structures reflect the 21st global knowledge economy.

A panel of experts made the picks based on these criteria:

- creating an enterprise knowledge-driven culture

- developing knowledge workers through senior management leadership

- developing and delivering knowledge-based products/services/solutions

- maximizing enterprise intellectual capital

- creating an environment for collaborative knowledge sharing

- creating a learning organization

- delivering value based on stakeholder knowledge

- transforming enterprise knowledge into shareholder/stakeholder value

This year’s winners include some long time winners and some major companies that you would not associate wit KM in the 90s.