Founder of Knowledge Associates International Group of Companies
Founder of Knowledge Associates International Group of Companies, which are management consultants at St Johns Innovation Centre, Cambridge U.K. He is a leading international expert and thought leader in strategic knowledge asset management. He specializes in knowledge driven results. He advised and assisted the UK DTI Innovation Unit in the production of the UK Government White Paper ‘UK Competitiveness in the Knowledge Driven Economy’.
Ron chairs the BSI Knowledge Management Standards Committee, and is a member of the ISO Standards workgroups for knowledge management, asset management and quality. He lecturers on the global knowledge economy, and he teaches knowledge asset management at King’s College, Cambridge University, UK. He was the consultant of the World Bank, European Commission, and the Inter-governmental Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo.
He specializes in developing knowledge strategies and policies, governance models and standards, knowledge systems and knowledge driven platforms. He works with major multi-national corporations, international UN organisations, governments, military, and professional institutions globally.
He is co-author of the books ‘Knowledge Asset Management’ (Springer 2003), ‘Upside Down Management’ (McGraw Hill Europe 1996).