L'enqu?te Teleos MAKE identifie les entreprises europ?ennes leaders centr?es sur la connaissance

( BW)(TELEOS) Teleos MAKE Study Identifies Europe's Leading Knowledge-Driven Organizations

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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2005--Organizations dedicated to growth through innovation and knowledge management add value nearly four times as fast as their competitors, according to Teleos' new "2005 European Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) Study." The winners of the 2005 European MAKE study, conducted by Teleos in association with The KNOW Network, are (in alphabetical order):

-- ABN AMRO (Netherlands)

-- BMW (Germany)

-- BP (UK)

-- British Broadcasting Corporation (UK)

-- Nokia (Finland)

-- Royal Philips Electronics (Netherlands)

-- SAP (Germany)

-- Schlumberger (France)

-- Schneider Electric (France)

-- Siemens (Germany)

-- UBS (Switzerland)

-- Unilever (Netherlands/UK)

SAP has been recognized as the overall 2005 European MAKE Winner

BP, Nokia and Siemens are previous overall European MAKE Winners

This year's 12 European MAKE Winners accounted for 7.3% of the total added value created by Europe's top 600 companies

A panel of European Fortune 500 senior executives and internationally recognized knowledge management experts selected the 2005 European MAKE Winners.

The panel rated organizations against a framework of eight key knowledge performance dimensions which are the visible drivers of competitive advantage.

The 2005 European MAKE Winners have been recognized as leaders in:

-- creating a corporate knowledge-driven culture

-- developing knowledge leaders

-- delivering superior knowledge-based products/services

-- maximizing enterprise intellectual capital

-- creating a collaborative enterprise environment

-- creating a learning organization

-- delivering value based on customer knowledge

-- transforming enterprise knowledge into shareholder value

Rory Chase, Managing Director of Teleos, said: "The European MAKE Winners are effectively transforming organizational knowledge into wealth-creating ideas, products and solutions.

They are building portfolios of intellectual capital which will enable them to out-perform their competitors in years to come." The set of five 2005 MAKE Reports -- Asia, Europe, Japan, North America and Global -- is available from Teleos: [email protected] .

Each report contains MAKE rankings, metrics, trends and analyses

Contact Teleos for a free Executive Summary of the "2005 European MAKE Study" -- E-mail: [email protected]

ABOUT TELEOS

Teleos, an independent knowledge management and intellectual capital research firm, administers the Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) program.

The KNOW Network is a Web-based global community of organizations dedicated to achieving superior performance through benchmarking, networking and best practice knowledge sharing.

CONTACT:

Teleos

Rory Chase Tel: 44/1234-314197

Fax: 44/1234-308824

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: http://www.knowledgebusiness.com