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Invited Keynote and Expert Groups Meeting at the United Nations Headquarters

September 5, 2003: Dr. Yogesh Malhotra, the founder of the BRINT Institute, delivered a keynote presentation at the United Nations headquarters in the New York City and participated in an Expert Groups meeting with worldwide representation. Management and Measurement of National Knowledge Assets of Nations was the focus of Dr. Malhotra's invited keynote presentation delivered at the United Nations Headquarters in the New York City on September 4, 2003. In addition to delivering the keynote, Dr. Malhotra also participated as an expert advisory in the 2-day Experts Group Meeting with focus on National Knowledge Systems for Development. Based on his review of the existing state of theory and research as well as worldwide practices and policies related to knowledge economy, knowledge assets, and national growth, he recommended fundamental overhaul of the existing metrics and methods that have been designed for the industrial and agrarian economies. He noted that most existing metrics primarily emphasize investments in input resources and incorrectly assume these as valid proxies for performance outcomes such as socio-economic growth and development. He recommended developing a more in-depth understanding and development of measures of inputs-processes-outputs-outcomes to ensure that the suggested causal relationships between resource inputs and outcomes are indeed valid. Besides observing interesting parallels between the knowledge management trends evident in several studies related to the worldwide private and public sectors, he recommended that the public sector should continue to build upon the lessons learned - about social and human issues - from prior failures of KM and ICT implementations in the private sector. He further recommended development of a metrics guide for the UN to facilitate the public sector capacity for management and measurement of national knowledge assets by drawing upon the recommendations made in his research project sponsored by the United Nations. The findings from the UN sponsored project are available in this document: Measuring National Knowledge Assets of a Nation: Knowledge Systems for Development. Also, available from the United Nations web site at: Measuring National Knowledge Assets of a Nation: Knowledge Systems for Development.

United Nations Project Defines Management and Measurement for the Knowledge Society

August 16, 2003: Dr. Yogesh Malhotra was invited by the Director of the Division for Public Administration and Management Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations "to become one of the main resource persons" for the Experts Group Meeting at the United Nations Headquarters. This Experts Group Meeting is an activity mandated by the General Assembly of the UN and the expectation is that the results from the inaugural meeting would enrich the department's ability to better serve the Member States of the United Nations in the area of knowledge management and would help guide the work of the newly established Knowledge Management Branch. The 'disconnects' between IT, information, and knowledge resources and country-level national performance motivated this research project directed by Dr. Malhotra and sponsored by the United Nations. With a focus on national and institutional policy development, this research project aims to advance the understanding of national governments, policymakers, and policy analysts about national knowledge assets and intellectual capital as well as related evaluation, assessment, and measurement issues. The project developed the first known broad-based comprehensive review of existing theory, research, practices, and policies on management and measurement of national knowledge assets. Based upon this review, the research project developed a knowledge management framework for holistic development with focus on socio-economic growth as well as human and cultural development. The framework was then used for defining a methodology for building public sector capacity for managing and measuring knowledge assets. Directions for future progress of theory, research, and policy on these issues were also outlined. The research paper resulting from this study is available online: Measuring National Knowledge Assets of a Nation: Knowledge Systems for Development.

A Pretty Powerful Portal for the World of Accounting and Auditing

February 3, 2003: In the February 2003 issue of the Journal of Accountancy, the membership publication of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Brint.com is featured as a 'Smart Stop on the Web.' The review titled 'A Pretty Powerful Portal' notes: "This Web site bills itself as the "survival network for the brave new world of business. And with literally hundreds of free links to information on knowledge management, the new economy and technology, Brint.com aims to deliver something for everyone in business, knowledge management and information technology." Recently, the BRINT Institute and the research produced and disseminated through its portals have also been profiled in a cover story of the Institute for Supply Management, the Financial and Management Accounting Committee of the International Federation of Accountants, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. Earlier, these were featured in a keynote address of the Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and in publications of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association.

Why Good Knowledge Sharing Is 'Out of Control'

January 4, 2003: The practice of knowledge management has often incorrectly confused knowledge management with "controlling knowledge sharing behavior." This misunderstanding seems to have its origin in mainstream thinking about control primarily in terms of compliance. We often hear about 'controlling' motivation of knowledge workers through rewards or punishments in latest business bestsellers. Many of us have also observed the emphasis on "compliance" in most regulatory, accounting, financial, and legal documents of governments, corporations, and institutions. What is fundamentally problematic with such myths about 'control'? Simply, all the rules about enforcing compliance gain minimum traction in terms of commitment... as commitment cannot be enforced. An important question is if the organizational systems designers can indeed 'control' knowledge sharing, knowledge use, or knowledge creation. Our in-depth research report clarifies that 'managing' knowledge is not about 'controlling' knowledge... and is now available online at: Organizational Controls as Enablers and Constraints in Successful Knowledge Management Systems Implementation. Applied experience drawn from practice on related issues is shared in our prior interviews such as: Knowledge Management, Knowledge Organizations & Knowledge Workers: A View from the Front Lines and Virtual Corporations, Human Issues & Information Technology. By distinguishing 'managing' knowledge from 'controlling' knowledge, a different version of the paper (with more in-depth focus on 'control') puts to rest the issue if 'Knowledge Management' as an 'oxymoron'. It is available online at: Is Knowledge Management Really An 'Oxymoron'?.

>> Organizational Controls as Enablers and Constraints in Successful Knowledge Management...
>> Is Knowledge Management Really An 'Oxymoron'?

Designing Self-Adaptive Organizations with Knowledge Ecology

January 3, 2003: BRINT Institute's forthcoming research in a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Encyclopedia for Life Support Systems project advances understanding of Knowledge Ecology. Building upon prior research and practice on Information Ecology by Dr. Tom Davenport of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change and Larry Prusak of IBM Consulting, this research integrates the sociological and psychological aspects of organizational environments to bridge the gaps between technology and strategy execution. This research is expected to advance the conceptualization, design, and development of Knowledge Management Systems for risky environments characterized by high uncertainty and radical discontinuous change. The research was motivated by a communication between Dr. Yogesh Malhotra with Dr. John Holland (the inventor of genetic algorithms), in 1995, to understand how adaptive logic of computational programs could be simulated for using information systems in designing organizations as self-adaptive systems. Departing from conventional information theory and economics based treatments, this research draws upon Theory of Meaning and constructivist psychology to advance understanding of how human aspects of organizational knowledge systems can overcome limitations inherent in Information Theory. BRINT Institute started research around mid-1990s on the Theory of Meaning based upon constructivist psychology to overcome limitations inherent in Information Theory based design of knowledge management systems. The paper forthcoming in the UNESCO Encyclopedia for Life Support Systems is available online at: Information Ecology and Knowledge Management: Toward Knowledge Ecology for Hyperturbulent Organizational Environments.

>> From Information Ecology to Knowledge Ecology

How Smart Enterprises Innovate While Doing More With Less

January 1, 2003: BRINT Institute's research and practice have always emphasized performance outcomes as the best measure for all investments in information, technology, and [explicit] knowledge resources that go into delivering a knowledge management product, service, project, or program. There are qualitative measures in terms of how customers and users perceive and rate these products, services, projects, and programs, and there are quantitative measures that may serve as comparative 'benchmarks'. In perspective of the BRINT Institute, the popular notion of benchmarking primarily and often only in terms of "input" measures (such as information, technology, and knowledge resources) is fundamentally flawed. Rather, organizations need to emphasize stringent benchmarks based upon "performance outcomes" and "performance outputs" over the comparative benchmarks based primarily or only on "input" measures. These issues are becoming all the more important as BRINT Institute's research and practice as well as research of many other organizations fanatical about the performance outcomes and ROI for IT, KM, and other input resources [often mentioned in BRINT Institute's research and practice] are emphasizing that without considering other critical variables there is no direct positive correlation whatsoever between the input resources listed above and performance outcomes despite all the hype. Two identical organizations given the same 'input' resources can turn out entirely different 'performance outcomes' just as two similar individuals with access to same information, technology, and [explicit] knowledge resources most often deliver distinctly different performance. While some may consume more 'inputs' to generate lower 'outcomes' others may often consume lesser 'inputs' to generate substantially and significantly high 'outcomes.' The fundamental issue is not about 'access' to the input resources or 'investments' in the specific resources, but about how these resources are leveraged, aggregated, integrated, managed and focused on creating the most sustainable customer value propositions and corresponding business value propositions. The primary driver of the whole process is the absolute focus on 'performance outcomes' that guides the ongoing processes of identification, aggregation, and integration of various alternative combinations of input resources. 'Doing more with less' is increasingly becoming a fashionable statement for company CEOs and more so for other executives in good times as well as not so good times. Some qualitative and quantitative measures of how BRINT Institute stacks up provided on this page reflect the company's philosophy and methodology based upon knowledge in action.

>> 'Knowledge in Action'

Uncovering Human Elements of the Knowledge Management Performance Equation

January 1, 2003: Recent practitioner surveys related to knowledge management and its applications in areas such as customer relationship management and supply chain management have uncovered two key challenges. First is the need to understand the role of human commitment and motivation in acceptance and adoption of knowledge management systems. Second is the need to develop valid and reliable metrics and measures to advance research and practice for 'knowledge management that works'. Similar challenges have been uncovered in various areas related to knowledge use, knowledge creation, technology enabled learning, and e-learning as documented in prior research published by the BRINT Institute. BRINT Institute's ongoing research and practice are attempting to bridge the gaps that exist between the organization's information technology and information resource inputs and the resulting organizational outcomes. This area of study and practice requires understanding the interfaces where technology interacts with psychology, sociology, and strategy, i.e., with human adopters in organizational contexts affected by changing business environments. BRINT Institute is pleased to share with its global membership the groundbreaking empirical field-based organizational study that establishes the theoretical and pragmatic foundations for correct understanding of human motivation and commitment in the above contexts. This research was conducted in the context of an implementation of a knowledge management system in a medium sized U.S. organization. However, the findings and metrics contributed by this research are relevant to all the application contexts listed above. Ongoing research and practice of BRINT Institute are informed by its established track record of advancing practice and research in the above application areas over the past 8-10 years. The study is available online: Role of Commitment and Motivation in Knowledge Management Systems Implementation: Theory, Conceptualization, and Measurement of Antecedents of Success. The Syracuse University School of Management and the Center for Creation and Management of Digital Ventures contributed to research support for the above study. This study advances upon prior research done by the BRINT Institute on defining the role of social influences on information technology acceptance and adoption in organizational settings.

>> Role of Commitment and Motivation in Knowledge Management Systems Implementation
>> Extending the Technology Acceptance Model to Account for Social Influence

'Why Knowledge Management Systems Fail?" Defines the Benchmark

October 8, 2002: BRINT Institute's recent research report 'Why Knowledge Management Systems Fail' received the award for the most popular download in the 'Corporate Computing' category awarded by CNET Networks division IT Papers that hosts about 30,000 white papers selected by their editors. Tracking data of BRINT Institute shows that every week more than 2,000 readers download this paper from the BRINT.com web properties. This paper is the latest featured article in the BRINT Institute's Book on Knowledge Management titled A Case For Knowledge Management: Rethinking Management for the New World of Uncertainty and Risk available online at www.KMBook.com. Based upon tracking data available for the recent months, it may be fair to conclude that every few seconds there is someone new somewhere around the world who is added to the worldwide circle of business and technology readers, learners, thinkers, and doers logged in to the BRINT BizTech Network. The knowledge developed by the BRINT Institute has been finding its way into the policy, strategy, and implementation of business and technology practices of worldwide governments, corporations, and institutions.

Knowledge Management Expert Explores KM Business Issues About Corporate Survival

September 20, 2002: As "virtual" communities and businesses become more widespread, the issues associated with knowledge management become more important to business and individuals alike. In this interview appearing in September 2002 issue of Unisys World, Dr. Yogesh Malhotra reflects upon BRINT Institute's paradigm of knowledge in action. In the context of a recent global knowledge management project that pushed the envelope in defining the KM movement, he shares how more than a hundred members and affiliates of the BRINT global community network located in various countries across the world collaborated ‘virtually’ through the Internet and World Wide Web from the beginning to the completion of this knowledge aggregation, validation, sharing, compilation and dissemination process. Additional information about the research compilation titled Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations resulting from this KM project is available on Amazon.com. In a recent interview published in Performance Improvement, vol. 40, no. 7, August 2001, a Chief Knowledge Officer who had read this book and applied KM principles discussed therein had observed: "Yogesh Malhotra [2000] talks about the myths of knowledge management, such as equating information processing with KM. Another myth is that, in the context of business, future success can be predicated on "best practices" that reflect yesterday’s success. In fact, finding a successful business model today is based more on your ability to anticipate surprise in the context of decisionmaking than following any pattern of past success... My company is considered a survivor in the current economic turn precisely because we applied Malhotra’s principles of creative abrasion and had a de facto KM system in place. I can’t count the number of times over the past three years that I sat through marathon meetings hashing out which business model is the best and how many times we changed our approach. The venture capitalists tell us that is precisely how we survived. If we had tried to base our model on past trends of success such as my business in the ’80s we would not have survived."

BRINT Institute Defines the Next Generation Vision of Supply Management Networks

July 12, 2002: BRINT Institute's latest research on Knowledge Management and its applications in Supply Chain Management is the subject of the cover story Knowledge Management - The Supply Chain Nerve Center in July 2002 issue of Inside Supply Management (formerly Purchasing Today), the membership publication of the Institute for Supply Management (formerly, National Association of Purchasing Management). The article describes routine and structured information processing model that lies at the core of most existing supply management systems and lays out how this model needs to be adapted for keeping up with changing customer needs, business environment, and market forces. Quoting Yogesh Malhotra, the founding chairman and chief knowledge officer of BRINT Institute, the narrative observes that: "Dynamically and radically changing environments overwhelm the deterministic logic of a structured model, resulting in 70 percent failure rate that has characterized knowledge management models... The knowledge harvesting process focuses on optimization and efficiencies to squeeze competitive advantage from existing business processes before they are marginalized by changing competitive pressures and customer trends...The knowledge creation process is rethinking and redefining existing business models, business value propositions, and customer value propositions for the next cycle of knowledge harvesting." Comparing and contrasting the knowledge-harvesting and knowledge creation processes that are characteristic of the above models, the article discusses the non-routine and unstructured sense-making model of knowledge management. The article concludes with a review of BRINT Institute's research that has identified seven constraints and enablers of knowledge management for leveraging the synergy of the knowledge harvesting and knowledge creation processes defined in the above models originally proposed by the BRINT Institute. These seven enablers and constraints are discussed in the conclusion in terms of: Business and technology strategy, Organizational control, Information-sharing culture, Knowledge representation, Organization structure, Managerial command and control, and Economic returns. The article also includes case studies narrated by senior executives from APQC, Xerox, and IBM that define other complementary aspects of knowledge management and its role in transforming the supply chains and supply networks.

New York Based BRINT Institute LLC Acquires World's Leading Knowledge Portals

June 2, 2002: The New York based e-learning , research, and advisory company BRINT Institute LLC completed its acquisition of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, based @Brint.com LLC. BRINT Institute is internationally recognized as a pioneer of leading edge research, practice, and thought leadership on knowledge management and strategic innovation. BRINT Institute has established a track record of contributing to the policies and strategies of worldwide governments, corporations, institutions, and organizations through its research, practice, and thought leadership activities. References to BRINT Institute's contributions are evident in policy and strategy documents, conferences, presentations, and meetings of worldwide governments, corporations, institutions, and organizations such as Cisco Systems, European Commission, Government of Argentina, Government of Greece, Government of New Zealand, Government of South Africa, Government of UK Office of Government Commerce, Harvard University, Microsoft Corporation, NASA, SAP, Parliament of Victoria (Australia), Telecom Italia, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United States Army, United States Navy Chief Information Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and, U.S. Federal Government. @Brint.com LLC was world recognized for establishing the de facto benchmarks for online content and the global community with interest in business, technology, and knowledge management concerns. Its Brint.com web portals have an established track record as industry benchmarks for their content and community on these themes. Online popularity tracking services had shown last year that Brint.com web portals ranked in the top 0.2% of the most popular million Web sites from around the world. BRINT web portals command the greatest attention of business and technology professionals in terms of rave reviews on the web sites, intranets, portals, and online databases of worldwide governments,corporations, institutions, and organizations. These portals are frequently reviewed for their pioneering contributions in Business Week, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business 2.0, Computerworld, Information Week, KM World, San Jose Mercury News, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times and thousands of other worldwide print, satellite, broadcast, and Internet media channels. Among users of the online services provided by BRINT web portals are world's most reputed organizations and Fortune 500, and Global 2000 companies. BRINT's web portals are the world's most popular resource for business and technology research and are cited, indexed, and reviewed in thousands of worldwide organizational and institutional libraries, intranets, reference databases, practitioner and scholarly conferences, books, journals, lectures, and presentations in the United States and more than another one hundred countries around the world. BRINT's network of partnering organizations spans North America, Europe, South America and Asia. The BizTech Network membership spans all continents and most countries around the world with the highest number of members from USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia.

Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation "at the cutting edge of the KM curve"

April 22, 2002: "Published at a time of waning euphoria about the dotcom boom, this hefty tome offers new perspectives on the importance of knowledge assets and intellectual capital for unleashing business model innovation" says the most recent book review of Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation. This research compilation resulted from chapters contributed by the founder of the BRINT Institute Dr. Yogesh Malhotra and its worldwide network of Knowledge Management experts. "The 25 chapters are drawn from 34 contributors in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America; the compiled material is divided into four sections: KM frameworks, knowledge work, knowledge assets valuation and organizational aspects of business model innovation" notes the recent review of this work authored by Madanmohan Rao in the destinationkm.com Communicator: The Weekly e-Newsletter for the destinationKM.com Community, Vol. 3, No. 4, April 22, 2002 and reprinted in Line56: The e-Business Executive Daily. The review notes that: "In terms of new approaches to knowledge work, Malhotra advocates a movement away from hi-tech hidebound KM systems to one of more creative chaos, greater social interaction, playfulness in organizational choices and strategic planning as anticipation of surprise. Care should be taken to ensure that IT-driven KM strategy does not become mechanistic and objectify and calcify knowledge into static, inert information, thus disregarding the role of tacit knowledge." The review also discusses other highlights in this "comprehensive collection of case studies and analysis at the cutting edge of KM" such as empowerment of online customers, suppliers, partners; shift from command and control strategies to sense and respond strategies; complexity, equivocality, uncertainty and ambiguity in today's environment; knowledge matrix for knowledge accounting and management; diversity of KM practices including project-based, umbrella corporations, virtual business communities, and, the multi-directional network; increased information flows among mobile workers; measurement of knowledge elements such as human capital and organizational culture elements like trust; cybercentric KM approaches contrasted with geocentric approaches; communities of practice for leveraging 'soft' knowledge; assessment of knowledge capital at the national economic level for growth and performance; assessment of knowledge capital in terms of financial capital, market capital, process capital, human capital, and, renewal and development capital; extension of KM valuation considerations to public-private partnerships; next generation of effective KM applications and infrastructure; and the role of knowledge managers in blending the organizational technical, human and financial skills. The complete text of the book review is available online at Line56 and additional information about the book is available online at Amazon.com. Also available online are examples of how some of the world's most prominent corporations, governments, and institutions are deploying the knowledge created by BRINT Institute in their strategies, policies, and practices.

BRINT Sets Another Industry Benchmark with Free "Portal On Demand" for Worldwide Users

March 15, 2002: Having successfully completed testing of the new "Portal On Demand" search model, BRINT launched this model across all its websites for use by its worldwide community of members and users. The focus of the new model is on enabling BRINT's worldwide community of knowledge workers to sift through the rapidly growing information on the Web to zero in on the most relevant information related to their research, learning, and professional advancement needs. At present time, this model of "portal on demand" represents another benchmark set by BRINT in pushing the envelope on maximizing the information value and information quality provided to the worldwide users at the lowest cost, i.e. zero dollars, coupled with maximal ease and convenience. This model helps the users of BRINT in advancing their knowledge on core business and technology issues and related competencies; finding information on related topic areas; finding relevant reading and research materials; and connecting them to targeted worldwide opportunities for professional advancement and professional growth. This model grew out of BRINT's research on developing a viable minimal cost base that can be provided to hundreds of thousands of users at a fraction of "cost per seat" compared with other corporate information portal products available in the market. The model is still undergoing refinement to provide a richer learning and developmental experience for the worldwide users of BRINT by further increasing the user value propositions and reducing the underlying cost structures that can allow more of doing 'more with less'.

BRINT Lays Claim to the Big Question "Why KM?" Posed by Tom Stewart of Fortune Magazine

January 11, 2002: In the recent Business 2.0 (February, 2002) story "The Case Against Knowledge Management", Thomas A. Stewart makes the following assertion:

"Technology is just an enabler." True enough -- and the disclaimer discloses part of the problem: Enabling what? One flaw in knowledge management is that it often neglects to ask what knowledge to manage and toward what end. Knowledge management activities are all over the map: Building databases, measuring intellectual capital, establishing corporate libraries, building intranets, sharing best practices, installing groupware, leading training programs, leading cultural change, fostering collaboration, creating virtual organizations -- all of these are knowledge management, and every functional and staff leader can lay claim to it. But no one claims the big question: Why?

A review of the "performance outcomes driven" practice of knowledge management defined and developed by BRINT Institute and its founder Dr. Yogesh Malhotra indicates that Tom Stewart's above assertion is incorrect. This assertion is incorrect because BRINT Institute lays claim to the big question: "Why KM?" in the newly released A Case For Knowledge Management, "...the first book on knowledge-driven organizations and knowledge workers that can survive and thrive in the new world of uncertainty and risk....". While transitioning from a business model based on knowledge compilation to knowledge creation, Dr. Malhotra defined the original problem of "Why KM?" in the seminal research paper presented at a major world-class research conference in 1997. Original research conducted by him highlights the crux of the problems related to progressive failures of information systems that support increasingly complex constellations of Knowledge Management Systems, Customer Relationship Management Systems, Supply Chain Management Systems, and other similar systems that form the backbone of intra- and inter-enterprise business networks. His thesis suggests that the problems lie in the mainstream paradigm of information systems and deterministic control originally intended for achieving business performance within predictable business environments. Even though these problems were pointed out by other scientists more than thirty years ago, mainstream research and practice have continued to design systems based upon the inherently weak foundations. Insights presented in this paper were drawn from the research conducted by him in early- and mid-1990s while he held a doctoral research fellowship in Information Systems and Knowledge Management at the University of Pittsburgh Katz School of Business. Incidentally, this period coincided with Tom Stewart's first writing about BRINT while researching his best-seller book Intellectual Capital. More recently, the quintessential issues of "toward what end" and "enabling what" have been the subject of some of the globally popular articles, interviews, and analyses authored by BRINT Institute and translated into multiple languages by the worldwide community of practitioners, researchers, and, editors following this stream of work. Interestingly, BRINT's research and global thought leadership have advanced beyond "Why KM?" to address "How KM?" for some of the world's most pre-eminent corporations, governments, and institutions. A quick scan of a sample of worldwide case studies based upon BRINT's contributions suggests increasing interest in the contributions of BRINT to "Why KM?", "What KM?" and "How KM?" in terms of translating the knowledge about the proposed practices of knowledge management into strategy, policy, and execution for competitive survival and performance.

Treasure on Knowledge Management and New Economy with Depth, Breadth, and Ease of Use

December 31, 2001: Most recent issue of the ProfitGuide magazine, the Business Resource for Canadian Entrepreneurs, joins world's other executive and entrepreneur publications in its review of BRINT. Commenting about the unmatched resource that offers depth, breadth, quality of resources,articles,latest news,and, Community Network, the review notes: "This is a gem of a site when it comes to finding resources and information on computer and related technologies, knowledge management and doing business in the New Economy. You’ll find quantity (dauntingly huge) and quality here. However, the site is easy to navigate." ProfitGuide's "essential web guide" on technology notes that the reviewed sites are "great to help establish or develop the technological capabilities of any company."

How the World of Everyday Managers and Professionals Relates to BRINT

November 24, 2001: Recently references to BRINT were sighted in : The European Commission document "What's new in eLearning" for review of the situation of Member States regarding e-learning plans for schools; SAP North America Keynote presentation 'The Benefits of Implementing all four Pillars of the Enterprise Portal Solution'; Gartner's CRM Fall Summit 2001 CRM Project Management; LexisNexis Asia Pacific Asia Pacific Managing Director's presentation on 'How Electronic Research is Changing the Way We Think' for the Science and Technology Information Center, National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC; and, the listing of Great Infonomists from keepers of Infonomia in Barcelona, Spain, trying to understand "what the New Economy is and what its impact will be on organizations as well as on people's lives". This small handful of sightings selected from hundreds that pass under the watchful eyes of our editors every week show just some of the many ways the world of everyday business and technology managers and professionals relates to BRINT. Several other examples of how BRINT's visionary thought leadership is contributing to the strategy and vision of world's pre-eminent corporations and governments are available here.

BRINT Releases First Survival Book for Knowledge-Driven Organizations

October 8, 2001: Recent issue of Business Week Cover Story 'Understanding the New World of Uncertainty and Risk' suggests a timely moment to share our exploration into this 'New World' that started eight years ago. BRINT shares lessons learned from its pioneering work in defining the theory and practice of next generation management relevant to knowledge driven organizations. The lessons are shared in the form of articles in the online full-text book, A Case For Knowledge Management, made available free of charge as public service. The articles in this book represent BRINT Institute's Framework of Knowledge Management and its touchstones for defining, implementing and improving worldwide Knowledge Management practices, processes and standards. The book also includes a small sample of articles from other publications that suggest how the framework relates to specific contexts and industry case studies. Exemplary case studies in knowledge management profiled on the web portal of BRINT Institute's latest book, www.kmbook.com , illustrate how the framework is contributing to the strategy and vision of world's pre-eminent corporations and governments that represent the next generation of knowledge-driven organizations.

BRINT Institute Releases e-Business Strategy White Paper Sponsored by Intel Corporation

June 26, 2001: BRINT Institute released the e-Business Strategy White Paper titled "Enabling Next Generation e-Business Architectures: Balancing Integration and Flexibility for Managing Business Transformation." Development of this white paper was funded and sponsored by the Intel Corporation. The paper was motivated by the critical need for helping corporate executives and technology executives understand the fine balance between increased integration demanded by latest e-Business technology architectures and increased agility demanded by the changing business and competitive environments. The white paper was produced at the invitation of Intel by the BRINT Institute to facilitate better understanding of organizational cultural issues and their strategic implications that are critical to successful implementations of e-Business technology architectures and infrastructures for business transformation. The paper draws upon the worldwide practice, research and thought leadership of the BRINT Institute in defining digital enterprise business models that can effectively leverage the strengths of smart technologies, smart strategies, and smart minds in today's knowledge-based economy. The paper concludes that: "The architects of next generation e-Business enterprises cannot afford to treat strategic sustainability of business models, related organizational cultural challenges, and, dependence of these architectures on true integrated information flows as afterthoughts. Technology executives who are able to leverage the new e-Business technology architectures while considering them as part of the 'whole systems,' should be able to demonstrate that where 'disruptive technologies' alone fall short of expectations, they could provide the winning recipes for success when coupled with 'disruptive business value propositions'. By doing so, they will be able to develop e-Business architectures for agile and adaptive enterprises skilled in creating innovative business models driven by unique, interesting, and competitive customer value propositions."

BRINT Sponsors Conference Board's 2001 New Economy Workplaces Conference

May 16-17, 2001: Given its mission of advancing the development of knowledge and practices related to the New Economy Workplaces, BRINT Institute sponsored the 2001 Conference on Leading New Economy Workplaces organized by the Conference Board. The sponsorship support of the conference was shared by Accenture, BRINT Institute and Towers Perrin. Dr. Yogesh Malhotra, the founder of BRINT Institute, served on the Advisory Board of the Conference. The conference advisory board included the following members: John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist, Xerox; Pehong Chen, President, BroadVision; Tom Davenport, Director, Institute for Strategic Change, Accenture; Kent Greenes, Director Knowledge Management, SAIC; Jane Harper, Director, IT and Ops, IBM; Bill Jensen, President/CEO, The Jensen Group; Yogesh Malhotra, Chairman, BRINT Institute; Clement Mok, Chief Creative Officer, Sapient; Thornton May, Corporate Futurist, Guardent; Jim Shanley, SVP, Leadership Development, Bank of America; Susan Stucky, Director, Strategic Practices Group, Institute for Research on Learning. Dr. Malhotra also presented his perspective on Managing Knowledge in New Economy Workplaces at the conference. This was his second presentation to the Conference Board; his last invited presentation addressed the U.S. Quality Council of top Quality executives from Baldrige Award Winning U.S. Corporations (Executive Councils for Performance Excellence).

"Why KM is Essential?" BRINT's Founder Discusses in His Latest CIO Magazine Interview

April 17, 2001: CIO Magazine recently conducted a poll of senior Knowledge Management executives that revealed that majority of surveyed organizations have adopted and are implementing Knowledge Management (KM) in some shape and form. Expert comments of BRINT's founder, Dr. Yogesh Malhotra were invited about the latest trends in Knowledge Management. In his latest interview with Emelie Rutherford of CIO Magazine, he emphasized that KM is essential given the "the increasing dependence of most companies on information and technologies within a business environment of radical, discontinuous change." Commenting on the implementation failures about KM reported by some organizations, Dr. Malhotra observed that: "Buying a typewriter does not make one a better writer, similarly, just buying new information technologies does not make an organization better at managing knowledge. What is critical is acceptance and effective utilization of the technologies." The latest results of the CIO Magazine survey are available online at: Quick Poll Report: KM Catching On.

InfoWorld Recommends BRINT for Keeping Up with Hi-Tech Industry Developments

April 2, 2001: InfoWorld publishes a list of top web sites for keeping up with hi-tech industry developments related to management and IS research. BRINT Institute web portals are featured among the selected sites along with other world renowned research institutes such as AT&T Labs Research, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Stanford Research Institute International, and, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). On a sidenote, many of these and similar organizations and programs of research in areas related to technology and its management are among the veteran users of knowledge resources and research produced by the BRINT Institute.

British Telecom Shares BRINT's KM Perspective with 170,000 Corporate and SME Customers

March 3, 2001: In its most recent Knowledge Management focus issues of BT Talking Business and BT Insight, British Telecom shared BRINT's perspective on Knowledge Management and e-Business with its worldwide small, medium and corporate customers. The article titled 'It's Time to Cultivate Growth' published in BT Insight (February, 2001), BT's magazine circulated to 25,000 corporate customers, notes "It you want your business to flourish in the e-marketplace, the answer is already in your hands - release the knowledge that's trapped within your organization." The other article titled 'Power to the People' published in BT Talking Business (Jan/Feb, 2001), BT's magazine circulated to 145,000 small and medium sized businesses, observes: "How do you maintain a competitive edge in the ever changing e-economy? Technology can take you some of the way, but it's Knowledge Management, which links smart systems with smart people that will keep you ahead of the pack." The two articles were invited to contribute to BT's increasing emphasis in the Knowledge Management and e-Business marketspace.

BRINT Network in 'Top 50 NextWaveStocks' and Top 0.21% Most Popular Web Sites

February 27, 2001: Recently, @Brint.com Network ranked in the Top 50 List of NextWaveStocks web site, selected among Top 50 Financial Web Sites by Money Magazine. BRINT Institute is the globally branded USA-based e-learning enterprise, renowned worldwide as the champion of New Business Technology and New Economy practices. Having won worldwide acclaim in international TV, print and Internet media over the last five years, it is perhaps the most popular global brand in the New Business Technology and New Economy e-Learning marketspace. Having achieved the deepest and broadest reach and range among the worldwide 'new breed' business and technology professionals and hi-tech entrepreneurs, BRINT Institute is the most popular online e-learning knowledge portal and e-community network on New Business Technology and New Economy issues. It ranks amongst 0.21% of the top most linked one million web sites on the Internet when considering all categories of web sites. This rank was tracked in the WebsMostLinked database, an independent rating system that ranks all of the domains on the Internet by their popularity rating where popularity is a factor of the number of links pointing to the domain on other web pages. Over the period of the last month, Brint.com had moved up from 0.30% to 0.21% in this ranking database. Brint is the home of the award-winning e-business and knowledge management related e-learning portals and global e-community networks, that have consistently won acclaim as benchmarks for e-business strategies in worldwide media including Business Week, Computerworld, Fast Company, Fortune, Information Week, and, Wall Street Journal. BRINT is also the leading worldwide sponsor of high-profile Information Technology, e-Business and Knowledge Management related learning activities across USA, North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Recently, its leadership contributed to success of what may be considered the world's largest formal knowledge creation and dissemination project - involving more than one hundred leading worldwide experts - on developing leading-edge research and practice on Knowledge Management, e-Business and New Business Models. Its roster of clients, co-sponsors and partners includes AMD, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Lotus, Microsoft, Silicon Valley based B2B enterprises, world's largest global information technology and e-business publishing and research companies, and world's leading training and market research companies. Its technology strategy consulting and thought leadership engagements have also contributed to British Telecom, Hewlett Packard, other Silicon Valley based enterprises, Korea's largest business media network and technology firms, Arthur Andersen Managing Partners, US Quality Council Baldrige Award winning companies, Government of Mexico, Government of Netherlands, and US Federal Government.

BRINT Completes Publication of First Seminal Works on New Business Models

February 25, 2000: BRINT is proud to announce the successful completion of what may be considered the world's largest formal knowledge creation and dissemination project over the last two years on developing leading-edge research and practice on Knowledge Management, e-Business and New Business Models. More than a hundred leading experts, scholars and practitioners located in USA, Europe, Australia, Canada, South America, Africa and Asia and global publishing companies collaborated ‘virtually’ through the Internet and WWW from the beginning to the completion of this knowledge aggregation, validation, sharing, compilation and dissemination process. This project was completed with leadership and support from the founders of BRINT Network in collaboration with the Network's worldwide community of e-Business and Knowledge Management experts, scholars and practitioners. In the same duration, BRINT Network has also been involved in contributing to the thought leadership in related areas for worldwide organizations including the Conference Board, Intel, British Telecom, and South Korean hi-tech organizations. The latest outcome from the above project is the edited book entitled Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation (in press), which is scheduled for release in the second quarter of this year. Earlier outcomes from this project include the edited book Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations (April 2000), and special issues of four leading journals in Information Systems and Information Science, including Information Strategy: The Executive' s Journal (CRC Press), Expert Systems With Applications Journal (Elsevier), Journal of Global Information Management, and, Information Resources Management Journal.

Tom Davenport Reveals Secret of 'Sticky Site' BRINT in Andersen Consulting Outlook Article

December 4, 2000: In the December issue of the Outlook journal published by the Andersen Consulting Institute for Strategic Change, Tom Davenport and Patrick Lynch discuss the secrets of generating stickiness for web sites in their article "Are You Making Your Customers Stick?" Their article outlines four proven tactics that could be used for making Web sites sticky and keeping customers coming back for more. About BRINT knowledge portals, they observe: "The stickiest sites skillfully use four tactics, which can be broadly defined as relevance, engagement, community and convenience. Just using one, two or even three will not do: The successful site will combine all four of these strategies to ensure stickiness... @Brint.com, an eBusiness and knowledge management portal, targets business researchers by offering ample depth, but not so much that users are lost in the data stream. Similarly, collectors who visit the auction site eBay will almost certainly find several specimens of whatever they are searching for, but not so many that the task of plowing through them becomes overwhelming...In a world where attention is one of the scarcest resources, and attention retention is a key to success, experience shows that these tactics work."
[Beginning from January 1, 2001, Andersen Consulting has been renamed Accenture.]

BRINT e-Learning Portal Between Harvard and Wharton Notes AACSB e-Zine

October 26, 2000: Recent issue of @cademyonline 'At Issue' article provides an interesting perspective about how future of Business and Corporate Education will be reshaped by learning portals such as @Brint.com Network. The article notes "In ten years, we may read a Business Week or U.S. News and World Report ranking of the top learning portals. It remains to be seen whether the names on this ranking will still belong only to traditional business education providers or whether newcomers such as BRINT will be ranked between Harvard and Wharton." @cademyonline is a publication of AACSB (the International Association for Management Education) and Quisic. Interestingly, some of the early MBA courses on New Economy Business Technology themes at Harvard, Kellogg and other leading institutions had used material aggregated by BRINT for their instructional purposes. Given its mission of bridging theory and practice and pushing the envelope on "relevant" knowledge, BRINT has enjoyed the distinct benefit of being patronized by executives as well as scholars interested in leading edge business and information technology issues. Also, in its role as the leading sponsor of worldwide e-Business and Knowledge Management learning activities, BRINT has co-sponsored many premiere conferences and events where other co-sponsors have included institutions such as Harvard and Wharton and leading corporations such as Cisco, HP, IBM, and, Microsoft.

BRINT 'Giveaway for Success' Exceeds Quarter Million Dollars

October 11, 2000: The total complementary opportunities for learning and development given by BRINT to its worldwide Network members over the last few months exceeds $253,000 with this month's allocation of such opportunities. In its role as the key promoter of worldwide e-Business and Knowledge Management events, products and services, BRINT has been setting a benchmark of client services and user services by providing premium exposure to many of the worldwide high profile conferences, events and expos and by servicing the needs of its growing global Network membership presence in most habited countries of the world connected through any medium with the Internet.

BRINT's Founder in Top Contributors to Knowledge Management

June 16, 2000: Recently a survey was conducted by a Drexel University professor that polled the global Information Systems community of ISWorld made up of over 2,260 worldwide members to determine the leading contributors to the field of Knowledge Management. The results of the poll showed many of the BRINT Network community members and friends among those who were recognized among the top practitioners and researchers in the field of Knowledge Management. Tom Davenport and Ikujiro Nonaka were among the top two academics, and IBM's Larry Prusak and BRINT's founder Yogesh Malhotra were among the top two practitioners most mentioned for their contributions to the field of Knowledge Management. In the ISWorld Knowledge Management Survey conducted by Dr. Scott P. Overmyer of Drexel University the top five most mentioned contributors to Knowledge Management were: Tom Davenport of Boston University, Ikujiro Nonaka, Larry Prusak of IBM, Yogesh Malhotra of BRINT Institute, and, Michael Zack of Northeastern University. The complete results of the poll are available online.

BRINT First on Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Guide to Surfing Savvy

June 15, 2000: Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's (AFCEA) renowned official journal, SIGNAL Magazine, issue of June 2000 features BRINT on top of the list of SIGNALs guide to surfing savvy. This AFCEA journal keeps members abreast of the latest developments in communications electronics, intelligence and information systems. SIGNAL features timely articles, special reports and insightful commentary on advanced technology breakthroughs and is consistently rated among the top benefits of AFCEA membership.

BRINT Extends Sponsorship of Conferences Across Americas, Europe and Asia

May 27, 2000: BRINT's recent partnerships include greater penetration of the Asian and American markets in alliance with several leading organizations, including, The Economist of London, UK. BRINT Institute is now the leading sponsor of learning and knowledge sharing events on e-Business and Knowledge Management over four continents: North America, South America, Europe and Asia. @Brint.com Network members have benefited from tens of thousands of dollars worth complementary learning opportunities that they have received from BRINT Institute in partnership with its worldwide conference partners.

BRINT Leads Largest Virtual Knowledge Sharing Project on New Business Models

May 22, 2000: BRINT is serving as the cyberhub for coordinating the largest "virtual" knowledge creation, knowledge aggregation, and knowledge dissemination effort on integration of Knowledge Management, e-Business and Business Model Innovation involving more than 100 leading worldwide experts from Americas, Asia, Europe, and, Australia. The project was coordinated by BRINT's founder, Dr. Yogesh Malhotra and drew upon contributions from some of the leading worldwide organizations and institutions including Ernst & Young, IBM,INSEAD, Kellogg, and, Wharton. The leading scholars and practitioners of national and international fame contributing to this peer-review driven project 'logged in' from their home countries that included besides USA and UK, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and, Switzerland. The partnership of BRINT Institute with three world class research publishing companies will result in six seminal works from this endeavor including two edited books, Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation and Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations, and special issues of four leading journals in Information Systems and Information Sciences, including Information Strategy: The Executive' s Journal (CRC Press), Expert Systems With Applications Journal (Elsevier), Journal of Global Information Management, and, Information Resources Management Journal

BRINT's Interview by Korean Business Newspaper with 750,000 Readers for TV Network

May 13, 2000: Dr. Dr. Yogesh Malhotra, the founding Chairman and CKO of BRINT, delivered the invited opening keynote entitled Knowledge Management for the New Digital Economy at the fourth Korean Knowledge Management Symposium in Seoul, South Korea. The symposium is the primary Korean national Knowledge Management gathering and has earlier featured keynote presentations by Charles Lucier, CKO of Booz, Allen and Hamilton; Ikujiro Nonaka, America's First Professor of Knowledge Management at University of California, Berkeley; Robert H. Buckman, Chairman and CEO of Buckman Labs; and, Hubert Saint-Onge, Senior Vice President, Clarica and previously with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Dr. Malhotra was also interviewed for the largest national business TV network by Dr. Lin-Su Kim, the President of the Korean Knowledge Management Society. The symposium is conducted by the Maeil Business Newspaper, the largest business daily of South Korea with a readership of more than 750,000. The newspaper had earlier published Dr. Malhotra's print interview in its daily edition along with interviews of other leading worldwide luminaries in Knowledge Management. The keynote addressed an audience of 400 leading Korean experts, senior company executives, professors, university administrators, intellectuals and journalists. Dr. Malhotra also participated in an academia-industry panel on the theme 'Diagnosis of Korean Firms' Present Situation of Knowledge Management and Tasks in the Future.'

"Passing away of Dr. Lin-Su Kim is a very saddening moment in the history of global innovation. The world of innovation will always be grateful to scholar-practitioners like Dr. Lin-Su Kim who demonstrated their knowledge in action by making a significant global impact on scholarship, policy, and practice. He will be truly missed. Fortunately for icons such as Dr. Lin-Su Kim, their work produces a million other Lin-Su Kims who are equally passionate about making this world a better place for everyone. We re-dedicate ourself to the pursuit of innovation on the passing away of this noble spirit on to the next world." - In fond memory of the noble Dr. Lin-Su Kim, Dr. Yogesh Malhotra, Feb. 6, 2003.

In Memoriam (Article From Industry and Innovation)

In Memoriam (Website of Professor Kim maintained by his students)

"If BRINT Doesn't Have It, Then You Probably Don't Need It" says Fast Company

May 1, 2000: Fast Company, the magazine about the New Economy launched by former Harvard Business Review editors, recently profiled BRINT in May 2000 issue in their review of leading web sites relevant to needs of business and technology professionals. Fast Company's review noted about 'Killer App' for BRINT: "Comprehensiveness. If @Brint doesn't have it, then you probably don't need it." The description about BRINT web portal published in the same article noted: "Think Yahoo! for business and technology." BRINT is also profiled in the smart bookmarks of Fast Company. In one of the early issues of Fast Company , Ellen Knapp, the Vice Chairman & Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) of Coopers & Lybrand, had listed BRINT at the top of her "favorite bookmarks."

BRINT Keynote to CIOs and Top 600 IT Executives in the Government of Mexico

Sep. 28, 1999: Dr. Yogesh Malhotra of BRINT delivers the invited keynote presentation "Knowledge Management and Transformation of the Government: Opportunities and Challenges" to the 13 CIOs and the top 600 Information Technology executives of the Government of Mexico at the World Trade Center, Mexico City. The annual event is generally inaugurated by the President of Mexico and attended by the top government representatives representing the national economic and technology interests. The opening keynote presentation was followed by keynotes from senior officials of the G-9 initiatives that outlined the progress of e-government initiatives. The presentation was later followed by a luncheon meeting hosted by the seniormost Information Technology executive of the Government of Mexico and attended by CIOs of all divisions of the national government. The meeting covered discussions about applying the future vision outlined in the opening keynote to the country's technology strategy and infrastructure transformation issues. Previous Keynotes on this annual forum have included keynotes by top executives and cabinet members representing organizations such as the European Union, Gartner Group, National Performance Review, Singapore National Computer Board, and, Stanford University.

BRINT's Founder Unravels Knowledge Management Myths in CIO Magazine Interview

Sep. 15, 1999: CIO Magazine publishes the interview with BRINT's founder, Dr. Yogesh Malhotra, that flies in the face of existing media hype of 'silver bullets' offered by many Information Technology vendors. This is the first of the three interviews of Dr. Malhotra with the CIO Magazine that propose a more balanced perspective of the strengths and limitations of the 'mechanistic' models guiding current information technology architectures and command-and-controls systems. The interview highlights three key strengths of Knowledge Management technologies pitched by the technology vendors and how these unravel when one takes a 'whole systems' view of such 'solutions'. The three myths emerge from BRINT's seminal research in informing information technology strategy, architecture and design, based upon insights from latest thinking about business strategy and in-depth research on human learning and organizational cultural issues. The key arguments are in favor of business performance and core value propositions that often get sacrificed in short-sighted choices of technology 'solutions' - which become major 'problems' in the process of adoption and implementation for enterprise agility and flexibility.

BRINT Shapes Ziff Davis' GII Standard for Internet Commerce

July 13, 1999: BRINT's founder Dr. Yogesh Malhotra is invited to participate as a Contributing Editor in the development of Ziff Davis' GII Standard for Internet Commerce by the current Chair. The Standard for Internet Commerce ("The Commerce Standard") is an initiative led by Ziff-Davis and involving a broad alliance of leading global corporations, institutions and individuals. The Commerce Standard is a codification of best practices in Internet commerce developed by a community of world-leading thinkers and practitioners; it specifies the merchant practices and policies that lead to high levels of customer satisfaction, service, security and privacy. The Commerce Standard is being developed with a community of the world's leading thinkers and practitioners in the Internet commerce field who will review and provide input to drafts and ultimately vote on each element of The Commerce Standard. Additionally, the broader Internet community and general public is invited to comment and vote on drafts of The Commerce Standard.

BRINT is Official Online Magazine for 9th Annual Conference of the Internet Society, INET'99

June 7, 1999: See the press release for Details.

BRINT's Founder Delivers Keynote to TiE, the Silicon Valley Based Network

Cerritos, CA, April 21, 1999: Dr. Yogesh Malhotra delivers the invited keynote presentation 'Growing Business Enterprises on the Net: The Way of the Wild Wild Web' to over 130 hi-tech entrepreneurs and professionals at the monthly meeting of South California chapter of TiE, the Silicon Valley-based global network of entrepreneurs and professionals. His keynote is followed by the keynote delivered by the co-founder of Silicon Graphics. Previous sessions on the same forum have included keynote presentations from Guy Kawasaki, CEO of garage.com; Sabeer Bhatia, President and CEO of Hotmail; Vinod Khosla, managing partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers; Suhas Patil, Chairman, Cirrus Logic and Safi Qureshey, Chairman Emeritus, AST Research.

BRINT Portal Rated Ahead of Arthur Andersen, Boston Consulting Group, and Booze Allen

March 22, 1999: Business Week's first Special Issue on E-Business: "What Every CEO Should Know" profiled @Brint.com as a top reference for top executives interested in E-Business. An earlier review in Business Week Online had rated BRINT as the best general purpose resource for business research. Computerworld, which had earlier selected @Brint.com as 'Best Web Site for the Year' among its more than one dozen reviews of BRINT, profiles it as a 'Web Site for Personalization in E-Commerce.' These reviews came just after BRINT was listed by Fortune annual technology buyer's guide in the "top two dozen frequently visited business informational sites on the World Wide Web" and received the top billing in Pulitzer Prize winning Pioneer Planet's annual review of "Most Useful and Thoughtful Web Sites for Business People." It was the first web based portal resource to receive the highest 5-star rating by the UK-based Anbar Intelligence that rated it ahead of many other leading Strategy sites including Arthur Andersen, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and, Boston Consulting Group, INSEAD. In its earlier history, BRINT (called "A Business Researcher's Interests" at that time) had entered the nomination in the last week for the inaugural Industry.Net Online Achievement Awards, yet made it to the second position as Top Nominee in the Best Research Site category, right after Lycos and right ahead of Digital's Alta Vista search engine.
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BRINT Review in the Scout Report Follows Other Online Publications

Jan. 22, 1999: The Scout Report, a publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to worldwide researchers and educators reviews @Brint.com web presence in its columns. The review observes that @Brint.com "offers a very valuable service in sifting through the information tidal wave to find only the most useful and relevant resources... Business students, intellectual capital researchers, and information professionals will find an almost staggering amount of potentially useful information." This is just one of hundreds of reviews in the online and Internet media in countries around the world that have words of commendation for BRINT for pushing the boundaries of latest knowledge on Internet Business and Technology issues. Among worldwide readers of BRINT are fans of 'celebrities' such as Peter Drucker and Michael Porter who often write asking for their contact information. Lesson: If you are a world-class celebrity in the business and technology space, make sure to join BRINT Network free to ensure that your fans can find you.

BRINT Sponsors Its First Conference in San Francisco - Event Sold Out

January 11, 1999: BRINT is invited to sponsor one of the first high profile Knowledge Management learning events produced during 1998-1999. The keynote presentaters for this event include Kenneth Derr, Chairman & CEO of Chevron Corporation; Carla O' Dell, President, APQC; Thomas Stewart, Board of Editors, Fortune Magazine; Verna Allee, Author, The Knowledge Evolution; Bill Petersen, Chairman, Institute for the Future; and, Dr. Yogesh Malhotra, Chairman, BRINT Institute. Dr. Malhotra presents the opening day keynote 'Toward Knowledge Management that Makes Sense: Making Business Sense of Information & Technology' at the conference. The first learning event that is sponsored by BRINT and achieves phenomenal success primarily because of the online advertising and promotions on BRINT portals and online channels and advisory role played by BRINT. This event heralds BRINT's involvement as a major promoter and sponsor of worldwide learning activities on New Economy business and technology issues including the areas of Knowledge Management and e-Business.
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Fortune Rates BRINT in Top Frequently Visited 'Knowledge Economy' Web Sites

December 31, 1998: Fortune 1998 Annual Technology Buyer's Guide profiles BRINT among the two dozen "Top Information and Commerce Web Sites." The review notes that these 'Internet frequently visited business informational sites on the World Wide Web" characterize what is being called "the knowledge economy." About BRINT, the Fortune review states: "Founder Yogesh Malhotra says his vision for this site is to fill the gaps between business and technology and data and knowledge. That's an ambitious undertaking..." And an ambitious undertaking it was... motivated by some of the early columns on Knowledge Management in the Fortune magazine besides hundreds of books and articles that went into defining the future vision of BRINT...

Fortune Editor Publishes Best-Seller Intellectual Capital: BRINT Tops His Favorite Bookmarks

December 29, 1998: Intellectual Capital, one of the first best-sellers on Knowledge Management written by Tom Stewart, a member of the Board of Editors of Fortune magazine, is published. Tom shares his list of favorite bookmarks and at the top of his list is BRINT, A Business Researcher's Interests, "A splendid compendium of articles and links on all manner of business subjects, with a superb collection of articles on knowledge management and intellectual capital."

BRINT Review in New Zealand's InfoTech Weekly Follows Other Country-Level Reviews

Nov. 16, 1998: The Internet editor of New Zealand's premier InfoTech Weekly published by Wellington Newspapers notes in his column: "As for Dr. [Michael] Porter's own work, no doubt a good deal more of it is scattered round the Internet. Unfortunately, I had a hard time finding it. What I did discover, however, made up for everything. My old favourite, the Business Researchers Interests, has not only had a very comprehensive re-design, but its focus - to be a be "premier network for contemporary business, technology and knowledge management issues - is very much on track as www.brint.com." This is just an illustrative sample of BRINT's worldwide coverage in the worldwide business and technology publications. The world's top-selling national newspapers and magazines in various countries, including the USA, UK, New Zealand, Australia, India, Mexico have already published glowing reviews of BRINT.

Computer Reseller News Cites BRINT's Take on the CKO Role

Oct. 26, 1998: In its CRN Business Weekly edition, Computer Reseller News article 'Harvesting Your Knowledge -- Getting To Know Your Friendly Chief Knowledge Officer May Be A Good Idea' analyzes the emerging role of the CKO. Citing BRINT's founder Dr. Yogesh Malhotra who was interviewed for this article, the news story observes that: "A CKO provides an anchor between the people, technology and the business side of an organization... Technology can only [be] an enabler, provided the right culture exists." [This is just one illustration of dozens of worldwide citations of Dr. Yogesh Malhotra's seminal thought leadership and practice development in the areas of Knowledge Management and e-Business. Besides inspiring the vision of hi-tech entrepreneurs developing technology projects and web-based businesses, world's largest technology corporations, world's technology strategy and policy leaders, world's scientific and research community, world's defense and military establishments, world's development agencies and world's national economies, his work communicates with the millions of worldwide business and technology executives and professionals from around the world. Other examples are available from his home page and from the sites listed under samples of other worldwide reviews.]

BRINT Takes IBM as Its First Paying Customer for Online Marketing and Promotion

Oct. 15, 1998: @Brint.com is incorporated as a formal business entity after already establishing a worldwide base and a world recognized brand. Invited by the advertising firm Ogilvy Group to service the online advertising and marketing needs for one of their largest clients, IBM. This first engagement 'by invitation' would continue over the subsequent two years while BRINT adds 'by invitation' many of the other world's largest advertising, marketing, technology, and publishing companies to its portfolio of worldwide customers.

@Brint.com Becomes a Global Brand Before Incorporation (Before October, 1998)