Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st-Century Organization

Description:
Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st-Century Organization is for every manager struggling to succeed and innovate in today's knowledge-based economy. This must-have handbook helps businesspeople build smarter, more successful companies by maximizing the knowledge that is already inside their organizations.

Most businesspeople have heard of the growing importance of knowledge workers, information technology, innovation, networks, reputation, and performance management. Like no other guidebook, Intangible Capital shows how each of these trends fit into an overall discipline of intangibles management. The book takes the ten basic building blocks of traditional, industrial-era businesses and defines their knowledge-era equivalents--intangibles as the new raw material, intellectual capital (IC) as the new production line, IC assessment as the new balance sheet, and networks as the new organizational chart.

This approach provides a clear road map for managers adapting to the realities of business today, one that helps translate the new world of the knowledge-based economy into understandable terms and ready-to-implement ideas.

Title Features:

• Includes an exercise at the end of each chapter that enables readers to connect the chapter to their own businesses
• Presents a resource section in each chapter for additional print and online sources
• An accompanying website at intangiblecapitalbook.com with sections for all key corporate titles (CEO, CFO, CIO, COO, etc.) shows how the book relates to their work and serves as a forum for ideas among readers
• A full index covering both industrial- and knowledge-era tools to make it easier for readers to make a connection with their current work approaches

Mary Adams is a co-founder of I-Capital Advisors and Trek Consulting. She is one of the leading U.S. experts on intangible capital and is the author of the Smarter Companies blog. In 2006, Mary created the IC Knowledge Center, a site that today is home to a global community of  IC thought leaders. Prior to starting her consulting business, she had a fifteen-year career as a high-risk lender at Citicorp and Sanwa Business Credit. 


Michael Oleksak is a co-founder of Trek Consulting and the Exit Planning Exchange. He has been a trusted advisor to countless owner/managers of middle market businesses. Prior to co-founding Trek in 2002, Michael built a Latin American business for the PORTIA group at Thomson Financial. He began his career as a VP and commercial lending officer for Bank of Boston. 

Mary and Michael met in the Dominican Republic in 1984 while working for U.S. banks and later transferred to Los Angeles. Early in their marriage, they co-authored the breakthrough book, Beisbol: Latin Americans and the Grand Old Game. They have two teenage sons and live in Winchester, MA, USA.