KM in Europe
21-Nov-03
by: Leif Edvinsson, Tom Knight, Manon van Leeuwen, Val Samonis, Mariusz Strojny
The European countries have recognised the importance of the knowledge economy. However, there are different levels of knowledge activities concerning EU members and non-member states. The European Council has set a goal for 2010: “ to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, …”
Eastern European nations can learn during their early stages from the evolution of KM in more developed countries.
According to Leif Edvinsson (the world’s first director of intellectual capital at Skandia, today CEO of Unic) the Scandinavian countries pioneered the knowledge economy. Mariusz Strojny (KM coordinator at KPMG) highlights the fact that Europe is more advanced with KM than the US. This is mostly because US companies concentrate more on technology than on the cultural and social aspects of KM. Workforce cultures and characteristics in Europe can have a positive as well as a negative influence on KM’s evolution though.
Much work and practise on KM is coming from SMEs, non-profit organisations and the public sector and not only from large-scale companies as it used to be. Besides EU countries, the non-member states are making progress with their own initiatives. However, it is still not common practice and more developed nations are seen as benchmarks. There are still certain problems from the communist period and a lack of collaboration between institutions in the non EU countries.
To read the whole article at the KM Magazine, go here.
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- Author:
- Dr. Patricia Wolf
- Publisher:
- KnowledgeBoard
- Date:
- 21-Nov-03
- Categories:
- Central Eastern Europe
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is the eu 2010 vision still being walked?
I heard a rumor that the EU is backtaracking on its 2010 breakthrough vision?
Anyone confirm or deny?
If its still on, where do you spend your time supporting the breakthroughs such as:
investing in humans above machines
self-oraginising not just command and control
collaboration network models not just competiition
openness not just need to know closedness
trust and conflict resolution governance not just numbers that compound distrust and conflict
system interactions, not counting up everything separately
purposeful measures systemising your long-term gravity not just short-term speculative milking of all the people
Perhaps these are some places to go 1 2 3 4
but where else, and how strongly does this community connect with other breakthrough ones.
PS I assume you know that 'breakthrough' as in the barrier of the speed of sound means knowing when and how to turn the system the other way around. I'm indebted to fellow BTU faculty member Michael Eccles for this story:
The first pliots to try to break the speed of sound barrier crashed (corporate analogy with network age)
Then one dared try out his hypothesis that as you pass through the barrier, you have try the controls the other way round. (so simple to me; if you are in a service, knowledge or networked economy your system design must let the people self-organise not just command and control; and that requires wholly different maths and measurements from those tangible accounting and performance consultants imposed)
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