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Creating Benchmarks through Knowledge Management Practices

BRINT, The Knowledge Creating Companytm, is unique in being the world's virtual gateway to the largest pool of talented minds involved in contemporary business technology management and knowledge management research and practices across the USA and all other countries of the world.

Our content, community, research, and thought leadership have been generously endowed with a user base of world-wide learners and patrons numbering in millions.

Many of our activities have received unsurpassed reviews and awards in worldwide popular press as well as practitioner and scholarly forums.

World's governments, corporations, institutions, and, corporate executives seek and apply BRINT Institute's counsel on national policies and corporate strategies.

Worldwide consultants, managers, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, government officials, professors, and scholars reference our research and practices.

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BRINT Institute
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 business, technology, and knowledge 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Complexity theory made easy with some helpful reading - Tom Petzinger, Jr." - Wall Street Journal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"If you spend some time at BRINT 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

"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.

How BRINT Global Knowledge Network Can Help You: *Quick Menu of Services

Organization and Leadership

Organization: *What Others Say *What We Do *The Institute *The Firm *The Portals *Contributions

Leadership: *Founding Chairman *Founding President *Global Impact *Milestones *The Beginning

Editorial Reviews about the BRINT Web sites have appeared in...

BRINT, The Knowledge Creating Companytm, is the world's epicenter for more than a decade from which two new 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.

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 Institute, LLC, is the New York based research, analysis, and management advisory company internationally recognized for its research, practice, and thought leadership on knowledge management and business model innovation.

BRINT Institute, LLC continues to create and disseminate original knowledge and practices that define the foundations on which sustainable performance and success of today's and tomorrow's enterprises, organizations, and societies depend. BRINT Institute, LLC, and its executives have served organizations such as the United Nations, National Science Foundation, Conference Board, Institute for Supply Management, Philips (Netherlands), Intel Corporation, British Telecom (UK), Maeil Business Newspaper and TV Network (South Korea), Government of Mexico (Mexico), Government of Netherlands (Netherlands), U.S. Federal Government, and Ziff Davis in consulting and advisory roles. Their keynote presentations and advisory engagements have addressed hundreds of corporate and technology chief executives and thousands of professionals around the world including Silicon Valley based hi-tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, corporate executives of Baldrige Award winning companies, corporate and government CIOs, world development policymakers at United Nations, and, cabinet ministers in world governments. BRINT Institute , LLC 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, LLC, and its executives is self-evident in the policies, strategies, and practices of world governments and worldwide organizations across most countries of the world.
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Global Impact of Research & Thought Leadership]

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.
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Global Impact of BRINT Network Web portals]

Pioneering Research and Thought Leadership Having Worldwide Impact

Rethinking Management for the New World of Uncertainty and Risk

Influential Research Defining Worldwide Management Practices
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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]

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 information technology platforms despite increasing sophistication of technologies, we developed the foundational basis of the knowledge management discipline. This functional paradigm is the first to develop deep and holistic understanding about the people-process-technology relationships for business 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 information technologies in a radically changing world. The foundation of the business-technology-management related 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.


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