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Knowledge Entrepreneur.

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Indonesia has 219 museums in 26 provinces!

It doesn’t count private museums owned by individuals or institutions. Wow!

Have you visited all of them, lately? See the list here.

Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) Awards: Setting a Benchmark for Knowledge-Based Enterprises

The idea of the award is monumental: to identify organizations who have successfully “created shareholder value (or in the case of public and non-profit organizations, increased stakeholder value) by transforming new as well as existing enterprise knowledge into superior products/services/solutions.*”

Knowledge management is infrequently talked about by executives and chief officers in Indonesia. It comes as no surprise that the common response of knowledge management is “an expensive practice!”. It is – when not properly planned or clearly defined.

Another generic response might be, “oh, my CIO and his IT teams have taken good care of it.”

Ladies and gentlemen, knowledge management is so much more than that!

To start with, take this simple query: define your business objectives and business outputs and see to what extent knowledge is capable to increase the likeliness to achieve the objectives and increase the value of the outputs.

If none – doubtful – don’t bother adopt knowledge management. Otherwise, start exploring the ide and how it is best implemented in your company.

See how your company – in the future – will have these criterias and bring home one of the awards:

• creating a knowledge-driven enterprise culture
• developing knowledge leaders and workers
• innovation (R&D, creativity and new product/solution/service design and delivery)
• maximizing enterprise intellectual capital
• enterprise-wide collaboration and knowledge sharing
• creating a learning organization
• managing customer/stakeholder knowledge
• transforming corporate knowledge into shareholder/stakeholder value*

* taken from documents in the KNOW Network (www.knowledgebusiness.com)