Performance through learning: interview with Kent A. Greenes
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/03055720610734818 |
| Published date | 01 July 2006 |
| Pages | 278-283 |
| Date | 01 July 2006 |
| Author | Michael Stankosky |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management |
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW
Performance through learning:
interview with Kent A. Greenes
Kent A. Greenes is Founder and President of Greenes Consulting. He
has worked internationally in a variety of executive, operations,
technology and business renewal roles in the energy and engineering
industries. Recognized globally as a pioneer in the field of Knowledge
Management (KM), Fortune Magazine identified him in 1999 as the
world’s leading money-maker in the field as a result of his track
record of results for British Petroleum. Along with Jack Welch and
Michael Dell, Kent was recognized as one of the top 20 knowledge
leaders in the world by the Teleos 2000 Most Admired Knowledge Leaders survey.
Kent worked in BP for 17 years where he started as a geophysicist and progressed
through a variety of operations and management positions. He initiated and directed
BP’s global Virtual Teamwork (VT) Program, which received an award in the 1997
Computerworld Smithsonian Awards. Under his leadership as Head of Knowledge
Management, BP received their first Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE)
Award and has been a recipient ever since 1998.
Kent joined SAIC as their CKO in 1999 and built a KM consulting practice in the
public and private sectors. His clients included Saudi Aramco, Unocal, Nexen,
Amerada Hess, British American Tobacco, Frito Lay, Entergy, Johnson & Johnson,
Northrop Grumman, US Army, Navy, and Air Force, NORTHCOM and the Defense
Intelligence Agency.
In 2005, Kent initiated SAIC’s internal business transformation initiative to become
a high performance company. By weaving proven KM practices into Six Sigma, SAIC
was able to accelerate changes in their core business processes and improve cash flow
by millions of dollars. In addition, SAIC received their first MAKE Awards in 2005,
winning in both the North America and Global categories. Kent is the only person in
the world to have led more than one company to this coveted award.
Kent’s experience and insights in KM have been documented in magazines and over
20 books, including: Company Command: Unleashing the Power of the Army
Profession;The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the Twenty-first Century
Organization;Performance through Learning, Lost Knowledge;Simplicity;Learning to
Fly;The Knowledge Engine;Lost Knowledge and Knowledge Capital. Kent has also
appeared on the Bloomberg Financial Network and several other television programs.
Kent started his own consulting practice in January 2006, to provide leaders with
coaching and advice in KM. He is Executive in Residence at George Washington
University where his is initiating a new program to research the Enterprise of the
Future. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Knowledge Management, and a
founding member of several KM consortiums and communities. Kent holds a BS
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VINE: The journal of information and
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Vol. 36 No. 3, 2006
pp. 278-283
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