NZ Knowledge Management Network

The New Longitude Perspective for Knowledge Leadership

Submitted by jonathan on 4 June 2008 - 5:24pm.

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By Leif Edvisson, Professor of Intellectual Capital at the University of Lund, Sweden; CEO of Universal Networking Intellectual Capital; Knowledge Nomad, and winner of the 1998 Brain of the Year Award.Today’s business economics are likened to the British Naval navigation map of 300 years ago. With the old navigation map, ships could sail with precision in north-south directions, but until the discovery of longitude they were inaccurate in east-west directions.