Pioneering Research and Thought Leadership Having Worldwide Impact
Rethinking Management for the New World of Uncertainty and Risk
Influential Research Defining Worldwide Management Practices
Rethinking Management for the New World of Uncertainty and Risk (KMBook.com)
Achieving Breakthrough Business Performance with New Technologies (ITUse.com)
[Global Impact of Research & Thought Leadership]
Besides the first to develop and globally disseminate knowledge about the latest business technology management and knowledge management practices, BRINT Institute has to its credit many other firsts. For instance, BRINT has played the role of being the world’s first, foremost, and most popular resource for compiling and disseminating knowledge on many information technology management themes relevant to the knowledge economy over the last decade. Among others, these include business process reengineering, organizational learning, learning organizations, self-adaptive complex systems, enterprise architectures, e-business architectures, competitive intelligence, virtual corporations, virtual organizations, intellectual property, national information infrastructures, national intellectual capital, national knowledge assets, and, knowledge portals. It is also instrumental in defining the post-modernist transition from industrial age to knowledge age by developing fundamental research as well as frameworks of theory and practice for the management of uncertainty, change, and complexity; business model innovation; motivation and commitment of knowledge workers; self-determination of knowledge workers; knowledge ecology, knowledge exchanges, and knowledge ecosystems; and, management control for knowledge work and knowledge-based organizations. Altogether, BRINT Institute is recognized for leading the development of fundamental research and practices that fathom the depth and breadth of the people-process-technology integration necessary for surviving in a world characterized by unprecedented change, uncertainty, and complexity.
[Using IT for Managing Change, Uncertainty, and Complexity: Where it all began in 1993.]
[A Wake Up Call for the Information Systems Discipline: About a decade after launch of the column 'W(h)ither MIS?']
e-Business and Knowledge Management Practices Establishing Global Benchmarks
BRINT Institute, LLC, published the first books on the topics of Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations and Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation in collaboration with world’s two hundred experts. Most of its practices characterize its philosophy of ‘knowledge in action’, i.e., in actually living the experience firsthand, before sharing it with the wider global community through its various knowledge ventures. If we won’t invest our own time, attention, and resources in something, we would never recommend it to anyone else.
Developing New Business Models of Global Corporations and World Governments
E-Business & E-Marketing: BRINT Institute, LLC, has had the privilege of having a roster of the world’s largest and most respected corporations among its clients and partners. The company was formally incorporated when invited to participate as an e-Marketing provider for IBM that had launched its major business model innovation focus the same year. Over the subsequent years, BRINT Institute, LLC added other major technology heavyweights including Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and Xerox, to its list of e-Marketing and e-Business clients. In this course, BRINT worked in collaboration with, and as a supplier to, the world’s major marketing and branding campaigns by the most respected global marketing firms including Ogilvy & Mather, Foote Cone & Belding, and, TBWA \ Chiat \ Day. All prominent global advertising networks have sought collaborations with BRINT through which we have had the opportunity of serving hundreds of other prominent national and international organizations. More recently, after being invited by Google for collaboration two years ago, we are servicing focused e-Business and e-Marketing needs for hundreds of other prominent national and international organizations.
Knowledge Management and Business Innovation: Through our E-Business and E-Marketing focus, we serve organizations positioning themselves as providers of solutions and services for knowledge workers and knowledge-based organizations. BRINT Institute’s initial engagement in facilitating business model innovation for governments and corporations preceded that focus. Invited by the United States Federal Government, our organization served as a Council Partner for the Inter-Agency Benchmarking & Best Practices Council which involved most major Federal agencies. In this capacity, we also provided consulting and advice to the leaders of that Federal initiative. Sought by the Government of Netherlands for advice about their transition to a knowledge economy, BRINT Institute advised the national Cabinet Minister and related national panel on the same theme. When invited by the Government of Mexico for advice on their nascent e-government focus, BRINT Institute advised the national Cabinet Ministers in emulating the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations. BRINT has also been an active participant and advisor in the national Vision Korea campaign that has been championing the advancement of the South Korea as a knowledge-based economy.
Besides contributing to major national transformations to knowledge economies, BRINT Institute also had the privilege of facilitating business model innovation of major global corporations. When sought by Ziff Davis Media Inc., BRINT Institute played a pivotal role in defining the Global Standards for Internet Commerce that involved corporate executives from several major American corporations. British Telecom received our advice and marketing collateral support in re-focusing their business model to serve emerging needs at the intersection of e-Business and knowledge management. Intel Corporation invited and received BRINT Institute’s collaboration and advice in the advancement of their ‘3rd generation’ e-Business architectures for refining the organizational cultural technology innovation and adoption strategy. Philips (Netherlands) called on BRINT Institute for its expertise in knowledge management and business innovation to help them devise a strategic execution template for use across worldwide marketing divisions as a part of their global innovation strategy.
Commoditizing Old Business Models and Creating New Business Models
Many of the concepts and technological models later popularized on the Internet and Web were originally developed and implemented right here as a part of what we see as our continuous innovation strategy. We think of it more of as a creative ‘tinkering’ process that is always up to creating something original while moving the bar a few notches higher. The concept of the use of “@” before the name (as in @brint) was created here and adopted by many others. Not many realize that it was primarily motivated by our focus on some sustainability of protection of our intellectual property while anticipating future mushrooming of domain extensions. Similarly, not many recognized why we had used dot-com (.com) in the domain and original company name before most venture capitalists had even heard about dot-com. It was the same reason as above as dot-com was not in vogue at that time. (Later amazon.com happened to popularize the 'fashion' worldwide.) After BRINT Institute repositioned its focus of Web portals as a “network” (the first BizTech Network), the concept was copied by many online publishers often ambiguous about what they exactly meant by “network.” It was not much different than the re-positioning of many prior IT players (including publications, associations, institutions, and even graduate business education programs) that followed BRINT’s focus on ‘business technology management’ and ‘knowledge management.’ Similarly, the newer search engines (some of which recently IPOd and others are trying to go IPO) that aspire to provide ‘answers’ follow technology implementations we defined and launched in late 1990s in our original prototype implementations. Some of the ‘tinkering’ that underlies many such concepts and their technology implementations can be seen in the ‘prototypes’ developed in our 'online lab' during the past decade.
Our Proprietary People-Process-Technology Framework of Management Peformance
Knowledge Management Common Body of Knowledge (http://www.kmnetwork.com/CBK/)
World's Most Comprehensive Business and Finance Research Portals
Search Engine, Research Browser, and Financial Browser (portal.brint.com)
The Knowledge Management Framework Defining the Global Knowledge Economy
WWW Virtual Library on Knowledge Management (KMNetwork.com)
World's Largest Global Knowledge Management Community of Practice
BRINT Global Knowledge Network (KMForums.com)
Previously: The Knowledge Management Think Tank
(http://www.brint.com/wwwboard/wwwindex.htm)
The Business Technology Management Framework Defining Global Business Practices
3 Generations of Business Management Practices (BRINT.com)
Giving Back To The Society Is Not An Afterthought But Our Foundation
'Giveaway for Success' Social Enterprise: Half Million Dollars & Growing
Anticipating the Future.... The Quest Continues
In the recent years, BRINT Institute's focus has been on anticipating the future of the ongoing intersection of global knowledge markets and financial markets. It builds upon, further advances, and synthesizes the Institute's prior research, thought leadership, consulting, and practice conducted over the past decade. There are two key reasons for our interest in understanding the new face of knowledge management in the context of global financial markets. First, it is an interesting real-world context that holds the potential for further understanding and refining the practices of anticipation of the future and adaptation to change, uncertainty, and complexity. Second, it is an interesting [near real-time] information and communication environment that fundamentally challenges the principles of industrial management and control underlying contemporary management education, theories, and practices.
* The most common use of the word 'paradigm' is in the sense of 'world view' (synonymous with the German word Weltanschauung). Our use of the term 'paradigm' is consistent with social science wherein it is used to describe the experiences, beliefs and values that affect the way an individual perceives reality and responds to that perception. Likewise, consistent with social science, we use the term 'paradigm shift' to denote a change in how a given society goes about organizing and understanding reality. The 'dominant paradigm' likewise refers to the values, or systems of thought, in a society that are treated as standard and widely held at any given time. Those interested in further understanding what a 'paradigm' means and what are the implications of 'paradigm shifts' are recommended to study Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
[Global Impact of Knowledge Management Practices]
