Dr. Cindy Gordon, CEO (Helix Commerce) har ordet:

Noen observasjoner som en amerikansk KM guru , konserndirektør og forfatter av fagbøker har gjort er på sin plass her. Det handler om europeiske land, Intellektuell kapital samt ikke minst at hele 70% (i US) er uengasjerte !!!!





Cindy som er konserndirektør i Helix Commerce International Inc i USA har følgende observasjoner om EU og europeiske land og Intellektuell kapital:

Overført til Mindstep med personlig tillatelse fra C.Gordon i August 2005.

Earlier this year, I spoke at the International Intellectual Capital (IC) and Innovation conference held at the University of McMaster.

Organized by Innovation and IC leaders, Dr. Chris Bart, and Dr. Nick Bontis, they were able to attract over 250 global leaders to share their recent research and also hear practitioner insights.

One of the shocking insights I left with is that by: "2007 over 95% of the world-wide web content will be written in either Catonese, Hindi, or Arabic:" which means I will not be able read the majority of the internet knowledge, without translation services.

This will pose tremendous growth for translation service providers like: Babel Fish and Translation Zone. It also means our children need to gain experience in these countries to cope with the Tsunami shifts economically underway and will continue to ramp as China's reach expands into North America.

New Year's Resolution 1 : Learn more about business opportunities for growth in these countries ... for all North American's, a competitive imperative!

Testing your Global Economic Acumen

1.) Which country of the European Union (EU) had the highest spending on education (as of % of GDP) in 2001?

2.) Which country of the EU had the highest labor productivity (GDP per hour worked in 2001)?

3.) Which country of the EU had the highest investments in R&D (as a % of GDP) in 2001?

4.) Which country had the highest percentage of households with internet access at home in 2003?

5.) Which country in the EU has the highest value of intellectual capital assets?

Answers:

1.) Denmark

2.) Luxemburg

3.) Sweden

4.) Netherlands

5.) Sweden

 

Humancapital DNA - Turning Clock-Watchers into Stars

Do people in your office seem less enthusiastic than they used to be? Do they come late, or not at all, more often than they used to? Do they respond more slowly or more sloppily to direct requests? If you're a manager, you may be all too familiar with "warm-chair attrition," as consultants call it.

More than 70% of U.S. employees are "disengaged," says a recent Gallup poll, meaning that they've mentally checked out of their current jobs and are just waiting for the job market to heat up so that they can go find another one.

Part of the reason is that successive waves of layoffs have left survivors just plain tired. "But the problem isn't just overwork. It's that so many people are being worked to death doing stuff they already know how to do.

They're not learning or growing," says Jeff Howard, a senior vice-president at Boston-based Novations Group, a consulting firm whose clients include heavyweights such as Microsoft, Pfizer, PepsiCo, and Wal-Mart.

"As a manager, you can fix that. But first you have to understand that your No. 1 job is developing people."

-Excerpt taken from Fortune Magazine

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Cindy M. Gordon is CEO of Helix Commerce International Inc, a collaboration commerce accelerator. Prior she was a Partner in a tier one venture capital firm investing in early stage ecommerce companies. She was also an Associate Partner at Andersen Consulting at the moment she wrote this article.

There she was a practice leader in electronic commerce, and knowledge management. She helped global 500 companies rethink their business models to compete more effectively in the new eEconomy. Ms. Gordon is a frequent industry speaker and published author. She has published numerous publications on the new economy, knowledge management and eCommerce.

Recently, she has also co-authored four books. Chief Knowledge Officers in the New eEconomy was launched at an international conference in Dallas in June, 2000. She also recently collaborated with Dr. Jose Terra on writing the "The Future of Knowledge Management" in a book called Knowledge: The Great Business Challenge.

Her third book collaboration was with international thought leaders in knowledge commerce, entitled Knowledge Management: Classic and Contemporary Works. Her fourth book is co-authored with Dr. Jose Terra called: Realizing the Promise of Corporate Portals, (www.amazon.com).

Ms. Gordon is currently enrolled in a doctoral program at the University of Toronto, where she is completing her dissertation on Knowledge Management and eCommerce.

She also has a Master of Information and Administration specializing in Information Systems and Business Strategy; a Honours Bachelor of Administration; and a Bachelor of Education (certified educator), from the University of Alberta. She is also providing board leadership and advisory support for: Bianix, Mongoose Technologies Inc, CompanyDNA, Novator Systems, GotMarketing.com, J!VE, The Milestone Group, and Tomoye.

In addition you can find her as a Entovation KM Leader at www.entovation.com and as CEO at Helix Commerce International Inc. at www.helixcommerce.com or email cindy@helixcommerce.com

2005-08-27 Torny Annina Berg