Joseph M. Firestone, PhD is Managing Director, CEO, of The Center for The Open Enterprise, LLC, which includes the Adaptive Metrics Center (AMC) -- www.adaptivemetricscenter.com -- and theKnowledge Management Consortium International (KMCI) -- www.kmci.org. In addition to his current work on the Adaptive Scorecard, Dr. Firestone is also working in the area of risk intelligence metrics and is currently writing a new book entitled Riskonomics: Reducing Risk by Killing Your Worst Ideas. At KMCI, he is developing the KM prescriptive model of The Open Enterprise as well as K-STREAM^TM, the first comprehensive project and program methodology for knowledge management. Dr. Firestone is also author of Risk Intelligence Metrics: An Adaptive Metrics Center Industry Report and the book Enterprise Information Portals and Knowledge Management. He is coauthor (with Mark W. McElroy) of Key Issues in the New Knowledge Management and the article "Doing Knowledge Management," selected as the outstanding paper appearing in The Learning Organization. In addition, Dr. Firestone co-edited a special issue of The Learning Organization, entitled "Has KM Been Done?" He has also written for Information Management Journal, KM World,Inside Knowledge, Philosophy of Science, and numerous other industry and academic journals. Dr. Firestone is a frequent speaker at national conferences and is developer of the Certificate Workshops in Adaptive Metrics and Risk Intelligence Metrics offered by AMC. He is also codeveloper and co-instructor of KMCI's Knowledge and Innovation Manager Certificate (CKIM) Program. His Web sites include www.dkms.com, one of the most widely visited Web sites in the portal and KM fields, and the blog "All Life is Problem Solving" (http://radio.weblogs.com/0135950).