Asian MAKE study winners announced

Teleos has announced the winners of the 2005 Asian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study, which identifies the region’s leading knowledge-driven companies.
Toyota Motor has been confirmed as the overall winner of the competition for the fourth year running and, along with the other winners, received recognition in a special awards ceremony at the sixth annual World Knowledge Forum in Seoul.
South Korea and India took top honours with four winners each – closely followed by Japan, with three winners.
The successful organisations, in alphabetical order are: Eureka Forbes (India); Infosys Technologies (India); Kao (Japan); LG Electronics (South Korea); Nissan Motor (Japan); POSCO (South Korea); Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (South Korea); Samsung SDS (South Korea); Singapore Airlines (Singapore); Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (Taiwan); Tata Consultancy Services (India); Toyota Motor (Japan); Unilever Indonesia (Indonesia); and, Wipro Technologies (India).
They were selected by a panel of Asian Fortune Global 500 business executives and leading knowledge management and intellectual-capital experts. Each organisation was rated against a framework of eight key knowledge-performance dimensions, which are the visible drivers of competitive advantage. Winners were recognised as leaders in:

Creating a knowledge-driven corporate culture;
Developing knowledge leaders and workers;
Innovation
Maximising corporate intellectual capital
Collaboration and knowledge sharing
Creating a learning organisation;
Managing customer knowledge;
Transforming corporate knowledge into shareholder value.

According to Teleos, this year’s winners also delivered superior financial performance, with average return on assets of 12.5 per cent – nearly five times that of the US Fortune 500 company median. Similarly, return on profits for 2005 were nearly four times above average, at 11.2 per cent. “The Asian MAKE winners are effectively transforming company knowledge into wealth-creating ideas, products and solutions,” said Rory Chase, managing director of Teleos. “They are building portfolios of intellectual capital, which will enable them to out perform their global competitors.”
The MAKE programme is administered by Teleos and conducted in association with the KNOW Network. More information can be found at: www.knowledgebusiness.com.