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

xvii, [1], 171, [3] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Inscribed on fep with signatures of both authors. DJ has slight wear and soiling. 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. Mary Adams helps managers optimize their organizations to excel in the global knowledge economy. She is one of the leading US experts on intangible capital. 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. Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century Organization explains the approaches that have helped Michael's clients adapt to the knowledge era. 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. Michael and his co-author, Mary Adams, met in the Dominican Republic in 1984 while working for U.S. banks and later transferred to Los Angeles. 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 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.…