Canada on The Innovation SuperHighway
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January 15, 2003
Wilmington, Massachusetts
Several experts from throughout the Canadian community have been featured in the new release - The Innovation SuperHighway: Harnessing Intellectual Capital for Collaborative Advantage (ISBN: 0750675926). Reviewers agree that this new publication picks up where other books in the knowledge profession leave off. While providing the sound rationale for knowledge strategy, Debra M. Amidon, Founder and CEO of ENTOVATION International Ltd. defines the global vision on all levels - the individual, the enterprise, the nation and society. With well-researched management trends, this book provides insights and practices leading to sustainable collaboration.
The book was launched this
month with a unique form of knowledge entertainment – a Knowledge
Concert - performed for The Bentley College Model United Nations in a
‘Tour of the Knowledge World’ with international recording artist, Dr.
Silvard Kool, who first performed the event at McMaster University in
Hamilton, Ontario. The event featured several knowledge practitioners –
who are represented on the Global Knowledge Leadership Map. Early reviews
cite this new release as: a 'milestone in the profession', 'a landmark
book', a 'seminal work', a 'must-read', and 'the breakthrough
innovation book of the decade'. This is considered a powerful and
empowering new book for knowledge managers and workers – destined to
establish a new innovation playing field for enterprises around the world.
The book has several unique
aspects, not the least of which is a Collaborative Foreword co-written by
three icons in the knowledge profession – all with senior executive
industry experience and coming from different countries – Sweden,
Germany and Canada. Leif Edvinsson, former VP of Skandia AFS and
now CEO of Universal Networking for Intellectual Capital – UNIC
(Stockholm, Sweden) and Joachim Doering, Senior Vice President,
Siemens ICN (Munich, GERMANY).
The third is Hubert
Saint-Onge, former Senior Vice President with Clarica (now Sun Life)
and currently the new CEO of Konverge Digital Solutions Corporation in
Toronto. In his words, “In this timely text, Amidon addresses the
essence of the key challenge we face in the knowledge era: the constant
need to innovate for individuals, organizations and societies. Its
architect, Debra Amidon, inspires and weaves a worldwide conversation that
embodies the message she brings to life for so many people around the
world. It is a privilege to be part of her Network and share in its
evolution.”
In addition to Saint-Onge,
several people from Canada who are featured on the Map are also profiled
as Ken Practitioners in a chapter featuring 21 people from 14 countries.
Cindy Gordon, founder
and CEO of the new start-up – Helix Commerce International, Inc.
(Toronto), is featured for her seminal work in helping service companies
use eCommerce and cCommerce to accelerate growth. “We need to
understand the tremendous change implications of electronic commerce and
the impact of the business models rapidly emerging. As these new solutions
are rapidly deployed, organizational boundaries, relationships all shift,
the implications of ethics, security, become more imperative to ensure
that the knowledge we are creating and distributing in our pursuit of
profit reflects the new order we want to create for future generations.”
Xenia Stanford, CEO
of Stanford Solutions, Inc. (Calgary) and Editor of the internationally
acclaimed KnowMap, is featured her peerless work in knowledge mapping,
social network analysis and customer innovation. She’s been an integral
member of the Global Learn Day and the new Socrates Academy – the
organization recognizing innovation in distance learning. “A
kaleidoscope of possibilities is revealed in this new masterpiece. Debra
M. Amidon may be the next Peter Drucker with her own strategic blueprint
for the knowledge tomorrow with global visibility, sustainability and
collaborative advantage.”
Keith Jones,
President and CEO of AVAC, Ltd. (Calgary) - the not-for-profit private
company dedicated to accelerating the growth of value-added agriculture -
is featured work in best practice development and knowledge-sharing in
both Canada and overseas. “Effective leadership is becoming
increasingly defined as identifying ways to accelerate knowledge sharing
in a way that delivers knowledge ‘just in time’, at the lowest
possible transaction cost, to the greatest industrial and societal
benefit. Innovation and creativity in knowledge sharing has
potential to drive both economic and social gains for the global
community.”
Doug Macnamara, CEO
of Banff Executive Leadership, Inc. (Banff), is featured for his work in
governance, aboriginal management and managerial competence as previous
Vice President of The Banff Centre and architect of the executive
development programs in knowledge and innovation. He co-authored (with
Amidon) the “7C’s of Knowledge Leadership” that appeared in the
Handbook of Business Strategy and is a chapter in the new book. "Competency-based
and experiential leadership development really is the epitome of 'tacit
knowledge' codification, development, transfer and measurement.
Individuals, organizations, and nations alike, must continuously
re-establish their 'Value Quotient’ based on knowledge-driven innovation
and ingenuity."
Darius Mahdjoubi, a resident or Canada and originally from Iran, is currently a doctoral student at the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin. His article (co-authored with Amidon) constitutes one of the main chapters in the book – “The Atlas of Knowledge Innovation: Migration of Business Planning to Innovation Strategy.” The work of several other Canadians is prominently represented, such as “the Ideas Economy” created by Bryan Davis, Director of the Kaieteur Institute For Knowledge Management (Toronto) and the 4D-I assessment tool produced by Bob Wiele, President of the Centre for High Performance (Collingwood) and Blaine Kennedy, Ken-Tek Ltd. (Nepean), who was one of the original architects of the Global Knowledge Innovation Infrastructure (GKII) research that has become known as The Innovation SuperHighway.
Dr. Christopher Bart
and Dr. Nick Bontis, both faculty at the DeGroote School of
Business at McMaster University are both recognized for the
internationally attended and published conferences on innovation and
intellectual capital. Bontis’ Institute for Intellectual Capital –
notably the first in the world – is featured as well as his recent work
on causal map diagrams and the Intellectual Capital Index created for a
project for the United Nations.
Several - including Charles
Armstrong, Margaret Logan and Laura Childs - who have
been integrally involved with the creation of the Global Knowledge
Leadership Map are included as participants from Know Inc. and/or are also
acknowledged for the work on the ENTOVATION Website, currently based in
Canada.
The book that already has
impressive rankings in Amazon and Barnes and Noble, has captured the
imagination of industrial managers, academic leaders and government
officials. Her previous best seller - Innovation Strategy for the
Knowledge Economy – is now in six languages and was selected for
Business Literacy 2000. Now with the new release, she has set the standard
for enterprises competing in the 21st century:
Part One: The Innovation
Frontier
Chapter 1 - A Global Imperative - Sustainability (Why)
Chapter 2 - The Knowledge Value Proposition (What)
Chapter 3 - Migration from Planning to Innovation Strategy (How)
Part Two: Architecting a
Future
Chapter 4 - Knowledge Economics
Chapter 5 - Knowledge Structure
Chapter 6 - Knowledge Workers
Chapter 7 - Knowledge Processes
Chapter 8 - Knowledge Processing Technology
Part Three: The Globe as
a Network
Chapter 9 - ENTOVATION - A Case Story
Chapter 10 - The E100 Global Momentum of Knowledge Strategy
Chapter 11 - Trends of Innovation Strategy
Part Four: Innovation
Leadership in Practice
Chapter 12 - Modern Knowledge Leadership: 7C’s
Chapter 13 - Exemplar Ken Practitioners
Chapter 14 - Evolving Innovation Infrastructures
Part Five The Millennium
Vision
Chapter 15 - The Knowledge Millennium Generation
Chapter 16 - Blueprint for 21st Century Innovation
Chapter 17 - Creating the World Trade of Ideas
For the past ten years,
Amidon has linked experts in 90 countries from around the world –
industrialized and developing nations - in a virtual ENTOVATION Network
that recently convened in New York City for a ‘Roundtable on
Collaborative Advantage.’ Interviews and trend analysis reveal that: “A
new economic world order is emerging – one that is based upon knowledge
(not technology), innovation systems (not value chains) stakeholder
success (not satisfaction) and international collaboration (not
competition).”
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The Innovation
SuperHighway: Harnessing Intellectual Capital for Collaborative Advantage By Debra M. Amidon Release date: November 2002 ISBN: 0750675926 - Butterworth-Heinemann 2002 Download
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