Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise Winners 2010

Teleos has announced the Winners of the 13th annual Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study. This 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. We at Darwin Ecosystem have long supported this contest before we were Darwin. 

For the first time, Google has been named the overall Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise Winner. Knowledge-driven organizations significantly out-perform their competitors. For the ten-year period 2000-2009, the Total Return to Shareholders for the publicly-traded 2010 Global MAKE Winners was 11% - nearly 3 times that of the Fortune 500 company median.

Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise Winners 2010 List

The Winners of the 2010 Global MAKE study, conducted by Teleos in association with The KNOW Network, are (in alphabetical order):

- Accenture

- Apple

- Ernst & Young

- Fluor

- General Electric

- Google

- HP

- IBM

- Infosys Technologies

- McKinsey & Company

- Microsoft

- MindTree

- PwC

- Royal Dutch Shell

- Samsung

- Schlumberger

- Siemens

- Tata Group

- Telefonica

- Wipro Technologies

Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise Winners Selection

A panel of Global Fortune 500 senior executives and knowledge management/intellectual capital experts selected the 2010 Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise Winners. The panel rated organizations against the MAKE framework of eight key knowledge performance dimensions which are the visible drivers of competitive advantage. The 2010 Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise 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/stakeholder knowledge

- transforming enterprise knowledge into shareholder/stakeholder value

An even more select group of organizations form the 2010 Global hall of Fame. These 26 organizations have been Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise Finalists in each of the past five annual studies: Accenture, Apple, ConocoPhillips, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Fluor, General Electric, Google, Honda, HP, IBM, Infosys Technologies, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, Petrobras, POSCO, PwC, Royal Dutch Shell, Samsung, Schlumberger, Siemens, Tata Group, Toyota and Wipro Technologies. Congratulations to each of them.