Our development concepts may be THE problem

My previous two blog posts (F13- KM is for value creation: WHOSE value? and F14- Monitoring and evaluation of KM for development) point to a key criterion in KM for development: What do community members truly value? In 2003, CCLFI.Philippines implemented a project on “Leveraging Best Practices” for UNDP. We documented best practices into manuals, [...]

3- KM is for Value Creation

In the private sector, value is measured in terms of how much consumers are willing to pay for a product or service, or how much stock market buyers are willing to pay for stocks of a corporation. The key element is how much a consumer is willing to pay, which in turn depends on her/his [...]

2- Intangibles: More Essential for Value Creation

Let us “connect the dots”: Starting in the 1980’s book values of corporations around the world constitute an increasingly smaller percentage of market values. Corporations which excel in managing their intellectual capital (MAKE winners) grow twice faster than Fortune 500 corporations (Teleos). The world economy is now creating more wealth from services than from industry [...]