Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise

The Winners of the 9th annual Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study have been announced by Teleos.

Toyota is the overall Global MAKE Winner for the second year in a row. According to the 2006 Global MAKE Report, European knowledge-driven organizations are failing to keep pace with their Asian and North American counterparts, and more organizations are relying on innovation for the competitive advantage.

2006 Global MAKE study findings include:

- Knowledge-driven organizations significantly out-perform their competitors. For the ten-year period 1995-2005, the Total Return to Shareholders (TRS) for the publicly-traded 2006 Global MAKE Winners was 24.2% -- double that of the Fortune 500 company median.

- the capability to innovate and create new products is seen as 'the' competitive advantage across a wide range of business sectors.

- As a result of globalization, most key business sectors will have only 3-5 global leaders by 2010.