Bangalore: Infosys Technologies added yet another feather to its cap by winning the prestigious Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) award in the Asia region for the year 2002, according to a press release.

This award recognises the mature knowledge management practices of the company. Infosys is the only Indian company to have won this award, the release said.

The awards were announced at the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul. A panel of senior executives and leading knowledge management experts in Asia chose the first Asian MAKE winners. The panel rated organisations against a framework of eight key knowledge performance dimensions that are the visible drivers of competitive advantage. Establishing an enterprise knowledge culture, developing and delivering knowledge-based goods and services and maximising value of intellectual capital are some examples of the performance dimensions considered.

The MAKE programme is administered by Teleos, an independent knowledge management research company. The MAKE research programme consists of the annual global MAKE study, the international benchmark for best practice knowledge organisations, and similar studies at regional/national levels. In 2002, MAKE studies for Asia, Europe, North America and Japan were introduced.

Infosys is also the first company in India to make it to the final list of around 50 companies globally, from which the top 10 were declared as the global MAKE winners, during 2001 and 2002, the release added.