Date of issue : Monday 21st 2002f January 2002

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This is a quarterly virtual magazine for the thinkers and doers of the 21st century.
This magazine is free! You don't have to pay any charges.
Editor: Mario Raich, Ph.D.

Following the feedback we have had from several readers we have opted for a quarterly edition of our magazine. We hope that this will help to slow down the sometime crazy pace of work of at least some of our readers.

We have done a lot of research at Learnità on the Knowledge Economy in the past year. We are preparing the edition of the 'Learnità research and development papers' in PDF form.
Here is the list of the topics that will be available:
• Dreams and Visions
• Opportunities of the New Reality.
• Managing in the Knowledge Economy.
• Knowledge is not always Knowledge!
• Life is Communication!
• Do you have the Culture you deserve?
• People and Talent Management.
• Talent and Knowledge Management in the Knowledge Economy.
• From Performance to Achievement.
• The Woman's Role in the 21st Century
• True Partnership Between Man and Women.
• Creating New Business Ventures.
• Corporate Co-operation
• What is the purpose of learning?
• Xerendipity: Creative Solutions.
• What is 'New Reality' anyway!?
• Manifesto of the New Reality and Lamento of the old one

Complexity and uncertainty are governing our life in an increasing way. The globalization of the economy is one of the most spectacular phenomena in this respect.
All our concepts, models and policies have been developed when the world seemed to follow clear linear patterns. Now of a sudden we are confronted with contradictions and problems to understand and explain what is happening.
Based on an over 25 years long experience with creativity development and problem solving techniques at Learnità we have started to develop new more 'systemic' ways to search for creative ideas and solutions.
The outcome is Xerendipity a technique useful not only to tackle the complexity and uncertainty but able to deal with the overwhelming wealth of the information and knowledge of our time.

We are developing MBA programs besed on the virtual modules form Educatis.
Educatis is virtual Education in a Practical Setting
The Swiss Educatis© AG (www.educatis.com) offers a broad range of courses and curricula for a multilingual European business education on the Internet. The first European virtual university is privately funded, which makes it independent of the capital dictates of the “New Market.”

Digital Mountain is as an early stage venture capital firm, based in Munich, Germany, focusing on unique technology companies in Scandinavia and Germany, with the objective of matching leading innovation into larger markets by having an in-dept geographical, commercial and technical insight and a strong partnering network through its founding partners, investors and advisory board.

The Management Team consists of an established and successful investment team of professionals to facilitate a synergetic network of fast growing technology related companies in Western Europe. The Team do all have a VC track record through their individual experience at leading financial institutions and organisations within Europe, focusing on technology related investment opportunities. The Team have established its recent track record at Digital Mountain AG and TransConnect AG, two reputed Venture Capital Firms in the network of CEA Communication Equity Associates Inc..

By leveraging its industry-specific network and operational business understanding, Digital Mountain seeks to become a significant early stage investor in Europe’s technology for fixed and wireless telephony, media convergence and sectors related hereto.

Digital Mountain will primarily invest in three selected locations, i.e. Stockholm, Helsinki and Munich and thereby continue its establishment of a gateway function between technology and markets.

www.digimount.com

Umantis is a state-of-the-art innovative integrated solution for competence based human resource management. It was developed by b-to-v a Swiss 'virtual incubator' of the new generation.
The objective of umantis is to provide optimum management of the internal corporate human capital.
Umantis supports HR, line managers and employees to find matching persons and is therefore suitable for the efficient configuration of knowledge transfer and the best deployment of human resources in large-scale enterprises.
At he heart of the umantis software is the 'competence-based employee portrait'.

For more details see: umantis - Integrated Solution for Competence-based Human Resource Management (PDF 249 KB)
http://www.b-to-v.com/umantis/produkt/downloads/
For direct contact: Philip Schnedler, Partnerand CFO, Tel.: +41-71-224 82 62, e-mail: philip.schnedler@b-to-v.com

The quartertly virtual Magazine “Knowledge Economy” is free of charge and has no advertisement.
We invite you to send the Magazine to other people that may be interested in the dialogue between the academic research and the business application.
We use a policy of “Right to copy”. For details look at section 7 “Research” in the issue No.1, January 2000.