Infosys among Asia's most admired knowledge firms

Infosys Technologies Ltd has been recognised amongst the top 16 Asian companies to be listed in the prestigious Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study, 2009.

Infosys has won the Asian MAKE award six times in the past and is one of the five Indian companies amongst the leading Asian corporations to have won the award this year.

Infosys has been recognized for developing new products and services and enterprise knowledge sharing and collaboration.

During the past several years, Infosys has made a concerted effort to provide an integrated solution to meet the knowledge needs of the organisation in the four basic dimensions of knowledge management - people, process, technology and content through an integrated knowledge management (KM) solution.

Acknowledging the award, Srikantan Moorthy, vice president and head, education and research, Infosys Technologies, said, "We are delighted with the news that Infosys has been ranked a MAKE Asia winner for the seventh time. Infosys continuously works at designing and developing a vibrant and responsive knowledge eco-system to enhance the value offered to clients."

The 2009 Asian MAKE winners have been recognised for delivering superior financial performance despite the current global economic recession.

The return on revenues was 12.9 per cent - over four times that of the Global Fortune 500 company median. Return on assets as 13.9 per cent - over six times that of the same median. Infosys was among the three leaders in both the metrics.

The 2009 Asian MAKE winners were chosen by a panel of Asian Fortune Global 500 business executives and leading knowledge management and intellectual capital experts.

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

Rory Chase, managing director of Teleos, said, "The Asian MAKE winners are effectively transforming knowledge into wealth-creating ideas, products and solutions. They are building portfolios of intellectual capital which will enable them to out-perform their global competitors during this economic downturn."

Infosys was the first Indian company to win the Global MAKE award in 2003 and to be inducted into the Global MAKE Hall of Fame in 2005.