Often when we talk to people about working in the Knowledge Economy they assume that we're just talking about IT organizations or new computer applications. This is a real problem as it automatically limits what it is that people see as constituting the Knowledge Economy. We see ourselves as an organization for which the Knowledge Economy is our raison d'etre. In the development community academics 'discovered' about thirty years ago that institutions mattered. Then, about five years ago people started talking about how people mattered too - that is without good people the best institutions in the world wouldn't do much.

The piece missing from all of this though is knowledge. Knowledge is that which flows through and around institutions and is used by people to make their institutions work - ideally as effectively as they can. This is where we see ourselves working - helping promote this flow of knowledge and thereby helping people and the organizations within which they work operate more effectively. While not a radical idea it is still an area which many people seem to miss. However, its an important part of of any organizations work and something which is keeping us increasingly busy (which is always a good thing in the middle of the global financial crisis).