The Knowledge Creating Company^™
Managing Change, Uncertainty, and Complexity through People-Process-Technology

The Mission
Educate... Enlighten... Empower...

Developing leading edge thinking and practice on contemporary businesss, information technology, finance and risk management issues to facilitate organizational and individual performance, success, and fulfillment.

Organizational users that leverage global knowledge services of BRINT Institute for coaching and guiding their executives, managers, consultants, analysts, and customers include world's most prestigious and high-profile consulting firms, global corporations, world governments, business schools, and, professional associations such as:

• Business Schools: Babson, Harvard, INSEAD, Kellogg, MIT, Princeton, Queen's, Stanford, Wharton
• Consulting Firms: Accenture, Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young, CSC, McKinsey, Price Waterhouse Coopers
• Global Corporations: British Telecom, Cisco, Goldman Sachs, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Pfizer, SAP, Toyota, Wells Fargo
• World Governments: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, European Union, Mexico, South Africa, UK, USA
• Government Agencies: NASA, NIH, US Air Force, US Army, US Navy, US Department of Defense, UN, World Bank
• Professional Associations: AACSB, ACM, AICPA, ALA, APICS, ASTD, ISACA, IEEE, INFORMS, NAR, SLA

A small sample of editorial reviews about BRINT Web sites is listed below.

"Top website for useful training and workplace-related issues..." - American Society for Training and Development

"Best web site in comprehensiveness, creativity, and relevance for educators interested in technology..." - Syllabus

"Practitioner's and academic's paradise..." - MBA Magazine

"A practical guidepost..." - Chief Executive

"What every CEO should know..." - Business Week

"First on the list for company and industry research..." - San Jose Mercury News

"Best site for information technology and business information..." - Computerworld

"Best business information source..." - Business Week

"Unparalleled in depth and relevance for business research..." - Information Week

"Best source for knowledge management and intellectual capital..." - Fast Company

"Top frequently visited 'knowledge economy' site..." - Business 2.0

"Contemporary business, management and technology issues..." - Wall Street Journal

"One of the best HR sites on the Internet..." - Wall Street Journal: Career Journal

"If BRINT doesn't have it, then you probably don't need it..." - Fast Company

"A pretty powerful portal. Smart stop on the web..." - American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

"Thumbs up for this serious surfer's tool useful for managers..." - Fortune

"Tool for raising your company's IQ..." - Forbes

"Best web site for keeping up with hi-tech industry developments..." - InfoWorld

"Wealth of incredibly rich, useful and interesting information..." - CIO Magazine

"Invaluable for applying complexity theory to business management..." - New York Times

"Complexity theory made easy..." - Wall Street Journal

"Probaly the largest collection of knowledge management literature..." - Wall Street Journal

"Best web site on the topic of knowledge management..." - InfoWorld

"Perhaps the best KM resource site out there..." - KM World

"Will keep enthusiasts of Knowledge Management entertained for hours...." - Harvard Business Publishing

Respected practitioners and consultants have characterized BRINT as the best resource for knowledge management.

"BRINT: A virtual library of the best sources for knowledge management and intellectual capital."
- Ellen M. Knapp, Vice Chairman & CKO, Coopers & Lybrand in Fast Company

"Some sticky sites define their audiences more narrowly and therefore are more selective about what they offer... BRINT targets business researchers by offering ample depth..."
- Thomas H. Davenport, Partner and Director, Andersen Consulting Institute for Strategic Change

"A splendid compendium of articles and links on knowledge management and intellectual capital."
- Thomas A. Stewart, Fortune Board of Directors and Author of Intellectual Capital.

"If you spend some time at BRINT founded by Dr. Malhotra you will be blessed by some of the world's most astute thinking on the nature of knowledge and its value." - United States Army Knowledge Symposium

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Review of BRINT by Board of Anbar Electronic Intelligence:
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BRINT, The Knowledge Creating Company^tm, is the world's epicenter for more than a decade from which two new technology management disciplines, business technology management and knowledge management, are being adopted across all countries of the world.

The BRINT Institute is dedicated to defining research, practices, and thought leadership relevant to growing, transforming, and sustaining high performance enterprises, corporations, and governments for the new world of business. BRINT (short for Business Research in Information and Technology) was originally conceived to bridge the gaps between business and technology, data and knowledge, and theory and practice as chronicled in June 1998 issue of Fortune. For more than a decade, BRINT has serviced the learning, networking, and professional growth needs of millions of users on average in any given month. We have been developing and advancing worldwide business technology management and knowledge management research and practices for the post-industrial world as evident from our decade long track-record of worldwide impact across most countries of the world. Instead of remaining stuck in the obsolescent paradigm of 'IT' for managing 'data' and 'information', we consistently focus on managing what really matters: change, uncertainty, and complexity.

BRINT Institute is the champion of business and technology management practices relevant to the brave new world of business, also described as a world of radical discontinuous change events now popularly known as 'black swans'.

BRINT Institute counts among its clients and partners world's largest technology and marketing organizations such as Google, IBM, Ogilvy & Mather, Hewlett Packard, Foote Cone & Belding, TBWA \ Chiat \ Day, AMD, Microsoft, Xerox. The global impact of the thought leadership of BRINT Institute is self-evident in the policies, strategies, and practices of world governments and worldwide organizations across most countries of the world. BRINT Institute is the champion of business and technology management practices relevant to the brave new world of business, also described as a world of radical discontinuous change. This world full of continuous surprises of unforeseen dimensions and change of uncharted scale is characterized by evolving models of work, workplaces, business enterprises, institutions, and other formal and informal organizations. This is the world in which the success formulas and best practices of yesterday could become failure traps of today and enterprises that were Goliaths of yesterday may become dinosaurs of tomorrow. Until this point, you may have read about this new world in some of the popular books on business transformation, change management, knowledge management and e-business. Welcome to the marketspace where this world is being charted, understood, defined and practiced... welcome to the new world of business!!

BRINT Network Web portals are the home of award-winning content, community, research, and practices reviewed and recommended in the columns of Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Chief Executive, CIO Magazine, CIO Insight, Computerworld, Information Week, KM World, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, and thousands of other worldwide publications.

Our content and community resources serve as a highly focused reference and are visible on the web sites and intranets of worldwide corporations, organizations, institutions, associations, publishers, libraries, and, publications. References to our leading-edge research are found across all areas of business, technology, and management practices in every realm of social and economic activity across all countries of the world. In any given month, our ventures service the learning, developmental, and networking needs of a few million business technology management and knowledge management professionals. Among our users are world's respected corporations and consulting firms; prestigious business, management, and technology institutions; top-tier publishers of business, management, and technology literature; high profile world development agencies; and, world governments and national defense services of most progressive nations of the world. Our roster of clients and partners includes world's largest global corporations and governments, biggest marketing and advertising firms, top-tier publishing and media corporations, and global conference and event organizers. Among the advertisers on BRINT web sites, you will find the world's largest business technology corporations and most respected consulting firms and educational institutions.
[Global Impact of BRINT Network Web portals]

BRINT (short for Business Research in Information and Technology) emerged in the early 1990s when most practicing managers and academics envisioned little of significance in the future of the just-born World Wide Web. Ironically, the cover story on the 'virtual corporations' was published by Business Week in its February 8, 1993 issue, yet most did not see the future at that time!

This venture laid the foundation of the business technology management discipline through the launch of the BRINT "The BizTech Network" content portals followed soon by a virtual global community of practice spanning all countries of the world. These are the first and foremost content and community portals on business technology management that preceded the dot-com era and continue to maintain their top-ranked status. Through the above ventures, we pioneered the development of focused understanding about new information technologies in the context of business management and business performance for increasingly complex and uncertain environments.

To advance beyond the persistent 70%+ failure rates of IT platforms despite increasing sophistication of IT, we developed the foundational basis of the knowledge management as a discipline of systemic risk management for environments characterized by radical discontinuous change. (Consequent materially significant events in our framework are not only highly improbable but also highly unpredictable based on the traditional logic and methods for prediction based upon historical data. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, such highly improbable events have been popularized as 'black swans' as named after a business best-seller of the same name.) This functional paradigm is the first to develop deep holistic (based on 'systems thinking') and dynamic (based on 'system dynamics') understanding about the people-process-technology relationships for systemic performance and has withstood the test of time. It squarely addresses the integration of people and process aspects that are critical for realizing the success of computational technologies in a radically changing world. The foundation of the systemic risk management focus on knowledge management was further reinforced through our creation of the world’s first content and community portals on Knowledge Management. These are the foremost content and community portals on Knowledge Management that preceded the boom-bust-boom cycle of KM in the USA and continue to maintain their top-ranked status.

Additional information about our various services that are available for free public use is available in Help and FAQs section.

Additional information about how our activities are contributing to the global development of knowledge work, knowledge workers, and knowledge economies is available in What's News.

The original mission of BRINT Institute since its launch was to bridge the gaps between business and technology, data and knowledge, and, theory and practice as noted in a Fortune magazine cover story on the knowledge economy in 1998. Over subsequent years of its existence, this social enterprise achieved its mission of developing and disseminating worldwide its vision of thinking and practicing about innovative information and communication technologies as means for facilitating organizational and individual performance, success, and fulfillment in an increasingly unpredictable world. Over this span, it held its status as the first and foremost resource top-ranked for its focus on developing research, knowledge, and practices relevant to two new technology management disciplines, business technology management and knowledge management. With the global dissemination and adoption of the two disciplines and their integration in various business school curricula and organizational best practices, its original mission was considered accomplished. By 2005, our research focus on 'why knowledge management systems fail' had led us to ponder about a possible forthcoming systemic failure of the quantitative finance models based on the economic hypotheses of efficient markets and rational investors that had been driving global financial markets. Ironically, the popular article titled ‘Math Will Rock Your World’ on quantitative models was published in the Business Week issue of January 23, 2006. Subsequent two years vividly illuminated how quant models when applied devoid of socio-technical understanding of socio-technical systems can freeze global financial systems.

Recently, BRINT was indexed in the prestigious ISI Web of Knowledge (Thomson Scientific) by invitation.