Debra M. Amidon
KnowMap's Global View Director

Debra M. Amidon (debra@entovation.com) is the chair and chief executive officer of Entovation International, Ltd., a global innovation research and consulting network linking 80 countries throughout the world. Her own specialties include knowledge strategy, learning networks, customer innovation and enterprise transformation.

Debra M. Amidon was born and raised outside Boston Massachusetts. She has held a variety of administrative and instructional posts in the US, Canada, Mexico and The Netherlands, including within education, government and industry. Her network spans 80 countries and her own presentations have been heard throughout North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and South Africa. Her articles and books are published in a dozen languages.

Amidon holds degrees from Boston University, Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior professional positions include serving as assistant secretary of education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the founding executive director of the Northeast Consortium of Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts and the first female dean at Babson College.

A prolific writer, her progressive management concepts and methodologies are often cited in the research of others. Her "Momentum of Knowledge Management" and the subsequent "Global Momentum of Knowledge Strategy" are available in many languages over the World Wide Web. In fact, her books have been published in French, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and German. Her most recent publications are Innovation Strategy for the Knowledge Economy: The Ken Awakening (1997) (see our Review), Creating the Knowledge-Based Business (1997), and Collaborative Innovation and the Knowledge Economy (1998), Architectural Primer (2000) (see our Review) and The Global Knowledge Primer (2001) (see our Review). Her newest work features The Innovation SuperHighway©, a concept she has innovated.

For more information, visit: Entovation International Ltd and The Global Knowledge Leadership Map

Articles by This Author

• Vol. 2, No. 4
  • Knowledge Innovation - the True Competitive Intelligence
  • The Knowledge Revolution has Taken Flight - Global Learn Day VI Stop in Venezuela
  • Knowledge Innovation: The Role of Information Professionals
• Vol. 2, No. 3
  • The Global Knowledge Primer
• Vol. 2, No. 1
  • Five ENTOVATION Principles for Homeland Security
• Vol. 1, No. 6
  • Out of the Depths of Destruction
• Vol. 1, No. 5
  • The Stories of ENTOVATION® from Global Learn Day IV - Year 2000
• Vol. 1, No. 4
  • Customer Innovation: A Function of Knowledge: Part I - The Theory
  • Customer Innovation: A Function of Knowledge: Part II - The Practice
• Vol. 1, No. 1
• Knowledge Jobs: Innovation - Knowledge to Action (sm)
• Challenges
• Customer Focused Marketing Messages: An ENTOVATION Challenge!

To become a contributor to KnowMap, see Collaborators.

Home

Dear Editor Subscribe/Renew Webeditor

Top