Biography leif edvinsson
- Leif Edvinsson (born 1946) is a.
- Leif Edvinsson is a Swedish organizational theorist, Professor at the University of Lund in Sweden and consultant, known for his work on intellectual capital.
- Leif Edvinsson is Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Capital, at the Lund University, Sweden 2001.
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Further Reading
In this conversation with Prof. Leif Edvinsson – Brain of the Year 1998 and winner of the Knowledge Management Award 2017 – I talked with him about his journey towards the fiel of knowledge management, the importance of intellectual capital in addition to financial capital and the development of future centers.
Born 1946 in Uppsala (Sweden) / Education in Lund (Sweden) / Journey to reduce ignorance / Scholarship at University of California Berkley / Starting in a bank (1990) / Financial crisis / Joined Skandia (1992) / Paper Developing Intellectual Capital at Skandia / Value of Intangible Assets / Intellectual Capital / Metaphore of knowledge tree (see image below) / Human and Structural Capital / Function Director of Intellectual Capital / Book Intellectual Capital – Realizing your company’s true value by finding it’s hidden brainpower (1997) / Journal of Intellectual Capital / Book Corporate Longitude: what you need to know to navigate the knowledge economy (2002) / Management as navigation (position, direction, speed) / VUCA wor
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Corporate Longitude - What you need to know to navigate the knowledge economy
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About Leif Edvinsson: biography / resume / curriculum vitae
Leif Edvinsson is Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Capital, at the Lund University, Sweden 2001. Inspirator and CEO of Universal Networking Intellectual Capital, Global Knowledge Nomad and winner of the prestigious Brain of the Year award for 1998. Leif Edvinsson is a leading expert on Intellectual Capital (IC). As former vice president and the worlds first corporate director of Intellectual Capital at Skandia of Stockholm, Sweden, Leif Edvinssonhas been a key contributor to the theory of IC and oversaw the creation of the world's first corporate Intellectual Capital Annual Report. During 1996 he has been awarded both by American Productivity and Quality center, USA as well as Business Intelligence, UK, for his pioneering work on IC. Mr. Edvinsson formerly was senior vice president for training and development of S-E Bank, and president and chairman of Consultus AB,
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Leif Edvinsson
Business sociologist
Leif Edvinsson (born 1946) is a Swedish organizational theorist, Professor at the University of Lund in Sweden and consultant, known for his work on intellectual capital.[1] and knowledge management.[2]
Life and work
Born in Uppsala, Edvinsson made a career at the Swedish insurance company Skandia. In the 1990s there he developed his theories about the hidden value of intellectual capital of Skandia and developed a management model for this value. In 1997 he published the book Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower, with Michael Malone.
In 2001, he was appointed a professor at the University of Lund in Sweden. He also works as consultant for the Swedish government on knowledge and innovation.
In 1998, Edvinsson was the recipient of the prestigious Brain of the Year award. Bill Gates and Paul McCartney were also nominated that year.
Selected publications
- Edvinsson, Leif, and Michael S. Malone. Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your Company\'s
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