Intellectual Capital Management: A Strategic Perspective

Worldwide, business has undergone transformation and transition to reach the knowledge society we inhabit today. Today, this knowledge base has become the center of business operations. This book introduces the concept of intellectual capital management and the role it can play in the strategy crafting procedure of organizations. A must for students and teachers alike.

Göran Roos is the founder of Intellectual Capital Services Ltd., London, a leading think tank in the area of methodologies for the identification, management and measurement of intangibles, and the Co-founder of Asset Economics LLP., New York. He is also co-founder of the Melbourne-based joint venture "Emergent Thinking Ltd.", with the De Bono Institute on Strategic Preparedness and Strategy from within and the Spanish Strategy Consulting firm B+I Strategy Sarl. Göran is visiting professor of Intangible Asset Management and Performance Measurement at the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield University, visiting lecturing professor in Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Strategy at the Helsinki School of Economics/JOKO, and visiting Intellectual Capital at Melbourne Business School, Mt. Eliza Centre for Executive Education. He was for many years part-time Industrial Professor of Strategy and Internationalization at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo. He has been a visiting Research Associate in technology-based business development at the Institute for Policy Science located at the University of Saitama Campus Kita-Urawa, Japan and in Biotechnology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala and in Intellectual Capital at Henley Management College. Göran is the one of the founders of modern intellectual capital science and world expert in this field. Göran had also worked as a consultant in most OECD countries and has served in management positions in several European and US-based corporations. He is the author and co-author of numerous books and articles on Intellectual Capital and Strategy. Göran was named one of the 13 most influential thinkers for the 21st Century by the Spanish Business Journal Direccion Y Progreso No. 167 in 1999.

Sharath Jutur holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the ICFAI Business School, an affiliate of the ICFAI University. He has been a regular contributor to various publications of the ICFAI University Press. His areas of interest include corporate finance, financial markets etc. His other titles include Financial Bubbles, Credit Rating Agencies: Emerging Issues. Presently, he is team member Chartered Financial Analyst magazine.