2006 MAKE winners

The 2006 Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) are out. I did not make up this acronym. Since Portals and KM is not eligible, the North American MAKE winners include, Apple Computer, Caterpillar, Fluor, Google, Halliburton, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Raytheon, 3M, and US National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA). Thanks to Stan Garfield for alerting me to this.

In the late 90s I used to represent my former firm at the rewards events in London. It seems so long ago and another generation of business budgets. I wonder if they have a live event. I did not see it listed in their calendar. One of the findings I liked in past reports was that the earnings for MAKE winners were higher than for the rest of companies, demonstrating a correlation between good KM and profits. But I am sure these firms are good at a lot of stuff.

You can get the report summaries for free at the MAKE site.