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News ReleaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Admiral Inman announced KEN Practitioner of the YearWest Orange, NJ - Admiral Bobby Ray Inman was announced as the ENTOVATION KEN Practitioner of the Year 2002 in West Orange, New Jersey in a ceremony orchestrated by Bob Franco, Vice President of Global Talent for American Express, and attended by Mayor John F. McKeon, and Rob Parisi, Town Council President. This event drew ENTOVATION colleagues from 17 countries, representing a portion of those featured on the Global Knowledge Leadership Map. Debra M. Amidon, CEO of ENTOVATION INC. and Global View Director of KnowMap: The Knowledge Management, Auditing and Mapping Magazine made the presentation to Admiral Inman as part of this Roundtable gathering called Harnessing Collaborative Advantage. Inman was presented with a crystal lotus, a symbol chosen by ENTOVATION Inc. for the many petals opened through knowledge innovation. The function ended with the Knowledge Concert, composed and performed by internationally renowned pianist Silvard. Inman, selected as this year's award recipient, served while on active duty in the United States Navy as Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. After retirement from the Navy, Inman was selected the first Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas and served for 4 years. Amidon states "As its first leader, he brought several qualities: a national identity, insider know-how and know-who regarding the Washington scene and a reputation for integrity and intelligence". Amidon, whose organization ENTOVATION® comes from a combination of ENTerprise innOVATION, acknowledges: "To be competitive…used to be a function of understanding the product development capability and business strategy. Today, one must innovate - create ideas and put them into products and services - in advance of the competition. Business intelligence is far more a function of knowing where and how a competitor is going and, then, innovating faster." She accredits Inman "with architecting the facility selection in Austin, the recruitment of a significant number of large-scale companies who were in many cases, arch competitors". Further she features his innovation in creating at MCC "a technopolis framework promoting new kinds of relationships/alliances between public and private sectors - especially government, business and academia". Herself an innovation leader for the knowledge economy, Amidon features other KEN practitioners in her latest of many books, several of which have been translated into various languages, soon to be released under the title The Innovation SuperHighway. More about the award and why Admiral Bobby Ray Inman qualifies as the first recipient can be found at www.entovation.com/whatsnew/inman.htm. He and other KEN practitioners can be found on the Global Knowledge Leadership Map at www.entovation.com/kleadmap/index.htm About ENTOVATION: ENTOVATION® and Knowledge Innovation® are trademarks of Debra M. Amidon and Entovation Network International Inc. Additional information may be found at www.entovation.com About KnowMap: KnowMap is a wholly owned subsidiary of Stanford Solutions Inc. based in Calgary, Alberta founded by Xenia Stanford, President. For further information on the magazine, visit www.knowmap.com, e-mail Editor, KnowMap or phone (403) 295-3490. # # #
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