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Previous issues of Knowledge Management (KM) have highlighted a macro transition from Globally Competitive Communities of the 1990s to Electronically Networked Communities and Electronically Networked Intelligent Enterprises with Virtual Communities Of Practice. ENIEs were listed in the January 2003 issue of KM and Taipei in the May 2003 issue of KM. The January 2004 issue of KM began with visionary transformational leadership, a look back at 25 years of technology to look ahead, and CEO agenda topics. Infoworld 2003 winners were followed by other key topics including the World Summit on the Information Society. The February issue of KM began with changes spawned by technological innovation followed by biometrics, tablets, logistics and supply chains, trade with Latin America, a tech forecast by Wall Street & Technology and an “outlook” by InformationWeek. The issue has a bibliography on transformational leadership and lists of topics in the last four issues of KM. A consumer can access the February issue; scroll down the list of topics; select a topic of interest in the Oct, Nov, or Dec 2003 and Jan 2004 issues; and click on the Web site to mine the source. The March issue of KM began with a focus on leadership for vision creation, economic empowerment for Hispanics, outsourcing, plus logistics and supply chain strategies as a prelude to business development and trade missions using China as an example. Additional items in the issue included the Diversity Pipeline Alliance, leadership in designing ENIEs with VCOPs, and a display of Web sites that are essential in the preparation of students enrolled in business courses.
The April issue of KM began with a brief evolution of ENIEs with
VCOPs and led to a
The May issue begins with this brief overview and then includes best business practices in Fortune, KM World, Hispanic Business, and other sources for clarity to conceptual frameworks for a range of business, community, economic, and educational development challenges we face. KM newsletters have been useful to advisees and graduates in a few nations. However, KM is insufficient to prepare for the Demand Driven E-Global Economy with ENIEs and VCOPs. BEST OF THE BEST: FORTUNE
Fortune has many lists of Best of the Best corporations. Categories
of groupings are:
100 COMPANIES THAT MATTER IN KNOWLEDGE MAMAGEMENT As you’ll see in our spring Buyers Guide, our knowledge management community consists of more than 1,500 companies, whose offerings range from forms processing to social networking, content management to collaboration, imaging .... McKellar,
Hugh (April 2004). 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management.
KM
BEST OF THE BEST: HISPANIC BUSINESS’ 25 ELITE WOMEN Woman
of the Year: Ms. Jovita Carranza, VP of UPS Air Operations in Louisville,
Kentucky.
The $1.1 billion air hub sprawls accross the equivalent of more than 80
football fields, holds 17,000 conveyers that can handle 304,000 packages
an hour, houses computers that process nearly 1 million transactions a
minute, and serves the world’s largest package-delivery company.
Profiles of other women are equally impressive. http://www.hispanicbusiness.com
SUPPLY & DEMAND CHAIN EXECUTIVE PROS TO KNOW Practitioner of the Year: Col. Joseph Walden, Director, School of Command Preparation, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. And descriptions of individuals for: Practitioner Pros to Know Provider Pros to Know Analyst Pros to Know Reese, Andrew K., and Murray, Sarah (Febraury/March 2004). The 2004 Pros to Know. Supply and Demand Chain Executive, 5(2), 30-41. Plus Version 7.0 Global Enabled Supply and Demand Chain Map http://www.SDCExec.com IBM – MOVING TO ON DEMAND – SENIOR VP LINDA SANFORD When CEO Sam Palmisano set IBM on the path toward on demand in October 2002, he said the company would help its customers better respond to their own customers, competitors, and rapidly changing market. (Three short articles mentioning Ms. Sanford and other leaders). Taft, Darryl K. (Mar 29, 2004). Moving On Demand. eWeek, 16-20. http://www.eweek.com KOREA’S BROADBAND REVOLUTION South Korea is ground zero in the global broadband boom. In a country of 48 million people, there are 12 million broadband lines, which pump data between 20 to 400 times faster than the old trusted 56K dial-up modem connection over normal copper-wire telephone lines. Of the nearly 16 million Korean households, 78 percent now have a broadband connection – or more than four times the home broadband penetration rate of North America. (The United States has 21.5 million broadband connections serving 110 million households). On average, Koreans spend more than 20 hours a week surfing the Internet. Korea has the world’s highest rate of video- and movie-on-demand downloads. Last year, 68 percent of all stock trading in Korea was done online (compared with less than 25 percent in the U.S.). Online shopping makes up to nearly 12 percent of all retail sales in Korea. Companies like CJ Home Shopping and LG Home Shopping, which started with home shopping channels on cable TV, now derive the bulk of their revenues from online sales. (Article describes four key Korean leaders). http://www.chiefexecutive.net Shameen, Assif (April 2004). Korea’s Broadband Revolution. Chief Executive, 38-42. THE CHINA SYNDROME China’s meteoric rise from a closed, near-feudal society to the most dynamic economy on the globe has been mostly good news for U.S. CIOs and captains of technology. An enormous supply of cheap labor, coupled with modern factories, means that prices for most hightech gear should remain low for years to come. Armies of highly educated yet low-paid scientists, engineers, accountants and other professionals provide a long-term opportunity for U.S. firms to get skilled work done for less. Add to that the millions of newly minted middle-class Chinese and thousands of growing businesses ready to buy, buy, buy, and what’s not to like? Well, there is another side to China’s emergence as an economic power, and one that poses a threat to the U.S.: China’s use of its growing economic might to try to dictate .... Nee, Eric (Mar 2004). The China Syndrome. CIO INSIGHT, 23-24. http://www.cioinsight.com VITAL FUNCTIONS
HR outsourcing is booming, as companies send everything from payroll to
training outside. But take out too much of the company’s core, and
you risk losing its heart and soul. Mendels, P. (Mar 2004). Vital
Functions. Chief Executive, 46-50. http://www.chiefexecutive.net
Buss, Dale (April 2004). World Class: Non-American CEOs are Having a Big Impact at Traditional U.S. Companies. Chief Executive, 44-47. http://www.chiefexecutive.net Martin, Justin (Apr 2004). Digital CEO’s. Chief Executive, 48-50. http://www.chiefexecutive.net Puryear, Rudy (Mar 2004). Sourcing Strategy: The Next Frontier. Chief Executive, 14. Wasserman, E. (Mar 2004). Groom or Recruit. CIO INSIGHT, 33-40. http://www.cioinsight.com BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT An April issue of KM indicated that business development begins by critique of “domestic” economy strengths. Business development opportunities were provided for (a) agricultural, (b) construction-related, (c) defense-related, and (d) procurement. Although the April issue had comments on defense-related business opportunities, the few ideas were merely an introduction. The next page in this issue contains much more information. Comments on security-related and transportation-related ideas are made for inclusion in a Framework for Strategic Thinking. Security-related
(contains articles about security)
CIO
INSIGHT Special Report: Security. Don’t Patch. PROTECT.
http://www.cioinsight.com
Transportation-related
(focused on two ideas)
FUTURE
TRENDS IN AUTOMOTIVE RELATED DESIGN
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: DEFENSE-RELATED The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD) http://www.darpa.mil/ DARPA manages the concept and technology development phases and then a branch of the military handles systems integration, production, fielding, and sustainment. The Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) received approval in April 2003 to begin the next phase, to progress from concept and technology development to system development and demonstration. The FCS expenditure in procurement in fiscal 2000 dollars was estimated at $2.19 billion. http://www.darpa.mil/fcs http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0421/web-fcs-04-25-03.asp A total expenditure for research, development, test, and evaluation is required for a Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) for the Defense Acquisitions Board (DAB). A MDAP list as of July 1, 2003 for the Army included a future family of combat vehicles for FCS and (a) Black Hawk Upgrade, (b) Joint Tactical Radio Systems Cluster 1, (c) Maneuver Control System - Army Tactical Command and Control System, and other programs. http://www.acq.osd.mil/ap/mdap/
“The Defense Logistics Agency is a $26bn enterprise that would rank near
the middle of the Fortune 100 if it were a private business. In the
late 1990s, the agency began a massive re-engineering project aimed at
transforming its internally focused, transaction-based business model to
one that is externally focused on customers and suppliers and based on
collaborative partnerships. Driving this change were outmoded legacy
systems and demands for improved support from the military services that
were also in the process of re-invention.”
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base in Ohio funds over $1.2 billion of cutting-edge R&D annually.
All of NASA is one of 600 R&D labs funded by the U.S. government required
by law to allocate resources to disseminate information about commercially
promising inventions and is available bi-monthly in Technical Horizons
and mailed with NASA Tech Briefs and electronically via nasatechbriefs@LISTSERV.ABPI.NET
Contractors, primes and subs, bid on defense projects. Projects include new weapons such as the Advanced Tactical Fighter was in the mid 1990s as well as continuing maintenance and renewing of systems – such as communications and information technology, security systems, and training at various levels for civilian, government, and military employees. A battlefield example is development of “space-time processing for tactical mobile ad-hoc networks” that could enable troops to set up mobile communications networks in rapidly changing environments. The idea has application potential for civilian first responders. http://link.abpi.net/1.php?20040401A2
Armed services use contemporary technology to meet extensive training required
by all personnel with leadership training of officers critical for FCS.
Leadership training for Army officers at the level of major and above is
done by the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) located at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas and beyond that level by the Army War College.
NATIONAL MINORITY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL American Diversity and the Diversity Pipeline Alliance were mentioned in the April issue. A National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) provides a direct link between corporate America and minority-owned businesses. An NMSDC Network includes a National Office in New York and 39 regional councils across the country. There are 3,500 corporate members throughout the network including most of America’s largest publically-owned, privately-owned and foreign-owned companies as well as universities, hospitals, and other buying institutions. The regional councils certify and match more thn 15,000 minority owned businesses (Asian, Black, Hispanic and Native American) with member corporations which want to purchase goods and services. (Conference in Washington, DC, Oct. 17-20). http://www.nmsdcus.org/ Leadership in Deployment of Electronically Networked Intelligent Enterprises with Virtual Communities Of Practice for improving Quality Of Life (QOL) Numerous issues will be important in the years ahead. No issue will be as important as Human Resources Development (HRD) for Electronically Networked Intelligent Communities via Virtual Communities Of Practice (VCOPs) for the Demand Driven Emerging Global Economy. Critical Thinking Competencies (CTCs) and Problem Solving Skills (PSS) were discussed in the April issue of KM in terms of “foundation” information and economic, governmental, and technological variable in the external environment. CTC and PSS are essential in shaping business level strategies such as (a) market analysis; (b) customer relations management; (c) diversity – acquisitions, employment, product line and services, etc; (d) e-commerce – B2B, B2C and mobile e-commerce; (e) e-demand or e-supply chain management; (f) e-logistics multi-modal distribution; (g) fraud and identity theft prevention; (h) human resources development; (i) communication and information technologies; and (j) all facilitation related subsystems as databases and networks. RESEARCH
QUESTIONS Hughes, Katherine, and Karp, Melinda Mechur. School-Based Career Development: A Synthesis Of the Literature. Columbia University: Institute on Education and the Economy, 2004. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/iee/PAPERS/Career_Development_2004.pdf What
content is basic in early years in school and lead to concentrations and
then specializations? What
learning experiences could be included in curriculum about events like
G8 Conferences:
A FRAMEWORK FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STRATEGIC THINKING
2004 2005
2006 2007
2008 2009
Business
Development – International
Asia
Africa – African Growth and Opportunity Act; see KM, June
2003, pp. 2-3.
South America
1.
G8 Conference at Sea Island, Georgia, June 8-10, 2004; see Web sites on
p. 6.
Demand Driven Emerging Global Economy MIDDLE COLLEGE VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL Computer based distance learning has been a continuing theme, including best practices in corporations and education at various levels. Evolution of Middle College High Schools (MCHS) and a Middle College National Consortium were discussed in the March and April issues of KM. But, content and content format for 21st Century competencies and skills to compete in emerging global economies must precede alternative delivery systems and organizational structure. “Build Your Buick Century” at the GM Web site was an example in the April issue to challenge readers to think about developmentally appropriate learning units for children or youth. Developmentally appropriate learning experiences could be created for “Interior Features” such as air conditioning, audio systems, power door locks, steering wheel, trunk door release, and others. And, experiences could be created for “Exterior Features” and exciting “Mechanical Features.” http://www.buick.com/century/specs/interior or /exterior or /mechanical
GM provides assistance via a K-12 education program managed by Lori L.
Wingerter. Fuel Cells Driving the Future is a nationwide fuel cell
education package developed by GM and Weekly Reader that has reached nearly
3.5 million middle school students. This program provides science
teachers with an engaging curriculum that highlights the fundamentals of
....
RESEARCH
QUESTIONS What specs could lead to a multi-purpose Portal to assist (a) medium and small businesses, (b) disadvantaged entrepreneurs become certified as information and knowledge industry suppliers, and (c) culturally diverse learners acquire 21st Century competencies and skills in Gen3 MCVHS? AFRICAN YOUTH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (AYF-IC3)
ANNUAL MEETING ON GLOBAL LEADING, LEARNING, AND RESEARCH Summer Instruction, The Research Institute, & The Global Leading and Learning Institute Disneyworld Contemporary Resort, July 25-30, 2004 http://www.fgse.nova.edu/summer/ KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (KM) and OTHER RESOURCES KM
can be accessed and mined: http://www.members.cox.net/greenka6/wgnewweb/wgmenu.html
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