Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation

We are living in interesting times characterized by increasing digitalization of business enterprises in a global interconnected knowledge economy. With waning euphoria about the first wave of digital e-business enterprises and a sobering dot-com stock market, business model innovation is being recognized as the key enabler that can unleash value creation for new digital enterprises. In contrast to traditional factors of production, knowledge assets and intellectual capital are expected to play a dominant role in determining both valuation and value-creation capabilities of most new age enterprises. Not surprisingly, Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation is anticipated to be the mantra for survival, competence and success of Net enterprises as well as traditional brick-and-mortar enterprises faced with the challenge of transforming their business models into and beyond click-and-mortar companies.

Yogesh Malhotra is the founder, chairman and chief knowledge architect of the WWW-based portal and global virtual communities of practice including @Brint.com: The BizTech Network and Knowledge Management Think Tank. As a professor of E-Business and Knowledge Management, he has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh. As a global thought leader on Knowledge Management and E-Business, he has delivered recent invited keynotes to CIOs in Government of Mexico, hi-tech entrepreneurs and professionals network based in Silicon Valley, Baldrige Quality Award winning U.S. corporations, and global corporate executives at most prestigious industry conferences. He is an invited contributing editor and founding member of the GII's Standard for Internet Commerce and has served on Knowledge Management advisory panels for Arthur Andersen managing partners and Government of Netherlands and as council partner of U.S. Federal Government's Inter-Agency Best Practices Council. He is the lead author of two books Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations and Knowledge Management for Business Model Innovation, has published in numerous leading scholarly and practitioner journals, and presented at leading world-class conferences. He serves as an editor and reviewer for leading information technology publications, is frequently interviewed by the worldwide business and technology media, and is included in the millennium edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World. Over the last 18 years, his worldwide professional experience has primarily focused on design, development and strategy for large-scale information technology and engineering systems with Fortune 100 companies, global multinationals and Internet startups. His credentials include Bachelor of Engineering, magna cum laude; MBA, summa cum laude with Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma honors and Ph.D. in Business Administration with Beta Gamma Sigma honors from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Certified Computing Professional of the Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals, a Chartered Engineer and life member of The Institution of Engineers, and award-winning member and doctoral consortium fellow of the Academy of Management.