What is the Knexus Community?

  • Europe’s leading cross industry corporate Business Club and Network for senior Business professionals
  • Focused on the commercial impact of new technology
  • A secure and exclusive membership subscription based Corporate Business Club & Network
  • A trusted environment for peer-to-peer sharing of ideas and experience, benchmarking key business initiatives, innovation & collaboration
  • Members are senior managers from major European and global companies
  • Knexus Community has been in operation since 1998 and many of our members are longstanding beneficiaries

Who are our members?

There are approximately 10 individuals from each member company. The Knexus Community’s success is reflected in the outstanding membership base, high levels of annual renewals & continuing ability to attract the best & brightest to join the Community. Our customers are from across industries and including companies such as BP International, BT, Coca Cola Enterprises, Direct Line, GlaxoSmithKline, Honda, Lloyds TSB, Royal Mail Group, Shell & Unilever.

What are the benefits of membership?

  • Knexus Community provides a low cost access route to the knowledge and experience of other large corporates
  • It also offers rapid access to the right people in peer group companies, reducing the dependence on consultants, vendors or internal expertise
  • Members leverage this access to reduce costs (e.g. avoiding consultancy fees) and accelerate time-to-market for key initiatives
  • Members obtain a tremendous amount of business value through peer-to-peer collaboration – ideas from peer group companies across industries
  • In many cases, other companies have experiences that you can leverage to improve business performance
  • Peer group collaboration offers an unbiased, trusted source of knowledge
  • The quality of Knexus members, the longstanding relationship that many of them have had with the Community a Knexus track record of more than five years are indicators of the business value generated for participants

What services can I access in the Community?

The Community provides a rich and varied range of activities that members can pick and choose from according to specific needs. The activities fit into three broad categories:

  • Programme of Sessions
    The Community addresses approximately 18 different strategic Business issues each year
    Subjects are chosen according to member demand & cover major customer, enterprise and partner related e-issues
    The programme is developed on a rolling six-month basis to ensure the content is fresh & relevant for members
    Community activities for each initiative include face-to-face collaborative sessions bringing interested members together
    Collaborative sessions are hosted at member locations, include current case studies from members, are professionally moderated/facilitated and use a number of innovative formats to drive the maximum collaborative value
    A copy of the current programme can be found here
  • Knexions
    Knexions is the online corporate service for matching executives with shared business issues
    Knexus Community members have full and unlimited access to the Knexions database, which includes all corporate invitations to share and features an easy and flexible search capability to determine appropriate opportunities
    Members can initiate (Start-a-Knexion) and participate (Join-a-Knexion) in an unlimited number of Knexions
  • Knexusgroup.com
    A secure members portal incorporating Thought Pieces, Fact Finders with links through to important sources of information and expertise, a members directory and other useful exclusive Community resources.

What will I get if join the Knexus Community?

  • Access to Community members, services and activities are only available through an annual membership subscription.
  • Membership includes – one year, secure access to the Community online; member passes to collaborative sessions (face-to-face events); guest passes; unlimited access to the Knexions database; one standard Knexion (i.e. a tailored Knexion around your specific requirements).
  • A minimum subscription is for two people
  • If your subscription is for six or more members, a discount is available
  • You can add additional members to an existing membership at any time during the subscription period.
  • Upon signing the membership joining form and return it to us, we will send you an invoice, which is payable upon receipt.

How does Knexus operate its Community?

The Community is operated using three key principals

  • Ensuring high quality, relevant members – all Knexus members are senior managers from blue chip companies (predominantly FTSE100 & Global 1000, across industries) with responsibilities for electronic/digital initiatives. Membership is not available to SMEs, vendors or consultancies.
  • Compelling content – Community initiatives are driven from member demand and contributed by the members. This helps to ensure the Community addresses the relevant & important issues for you.
  • Providing a secure & trusted environment – the open and candid exchange of experience within the Community is perhaps its greatest asset. This has been achieved by creating a secure, controlled environment with a heavy emphasis on confidentiality.

How do I join?

There is a member joining form which needs to be filled in by the main sponsor of the membership. This can be accessed here and should be returned to [email protected]

What is the price of joining Knexus Community?

The price will be made available to you after a decision has been reached that you fit the criteria of joining Knexus Community. The price is available in both Pound Sterling and Euros.

What is the criteria to be part of Knexus Community?

All members need to be full-time employees of large corporates that are looking at the business challenges of digital business. We DO NOT allow vendors or consultants to be members of Knexus Community.

I need more information to make a decision on joining

If you have specific questions or need further information, we can either arrange for a telephone consultation, or provide you with the additional information you require via email. In either case please contact us: [email protected] or telephone +44 (0) 20 7631 4151.

What do you mean by Sessions Programme?

Our Sessions Programme is based on topics and issues that are affecting today’s senior management in the eCommerce market place. As part of the Initiative Programme, we run face-to-face activities, which we call collaborative sessions. These collaborative sessions are not like traditional events, where you listen to a speaker and take notes. Our sessions are an active roundtable collaboration among all participants where people can share and exchange ideas and experience around their particular initiatives.

Why do you call your face-to-face activities collaborative sessions?

Our face-to-face gatherings are an integral part of the activities of the Community and are designed to stimulate effective sharing and collaboration between our members. The approach, objectives, content and attendees of Knexus collaborative sessions are quite different to traditional conferences. For example, attendance is more members only and by invitation only, we bring together limited numbers of people to encourage collaboration, and our content is case study based from members and addresses both the successes and failures.

How many collaborative sessions does Knexus Community run a year?

We aim to run 18 sessions each year specifically on eBusiness.

How can I register for a collaborative session?

For each collaborative session, there is the facility to register your attendance online, provided that you are a member. Please register using this facility and a confirmation will be sent to you within 24 hours.

Can I bring a guest to a collaborative session?

All guests need to be fulltime employees of the member company. As part of your subscription, there are a number of guest passes which you can use. Please contact [email protected] if you want to bring a guest along.

What happens if I cannot attend a collaborative session?

After each session, there are outputs made available to members with a summary of the issues and challenges learnt. You can send a guest along in your place, provided that you have informed us.

What happens if I have registered for a collaborative session and need to cancel?

We need five working days to cancel your registration. Unless this is received during this time frame, we will consider that a member pass has been used.

What else does Knexus do other than Knexus Community?

Knexus has a number of parts to its business. In addition to managing its own Community for our members, Knexus also works with customers on two fronts – Management and Advisory Services. Here we manage other Communities for our customers as well as offer an advisory service to help companies develop and grown their own Communities. With our experience of working in Communities since 1998, we are in the ideal position to pass on our expertise and knowledge to our customers.
For more detail on what we do, see our Services section