If not the IC-IQ quiz, here’s another quiz
The Intangible Capital quiz IC.IQ can be powerful and a great way to quickly get at what’s going on in a business. It tells you what the financials and all the “hard” data have ignored.
Getting Intangible Capital Into Your Performance Measurement System
Building a performance measurement system without the right foundation information would be like designing a dashboard when you have never looked under the hood of a car. Now, “wait a minute,” you will say, “I know my business inside and out.” And you probably do. But no matter how deep your personal familiarity with the [...]
IT Equals IC: Networks in the Organization
In my past couple posts, I have been talking about mapping networks as the new organization chart. The concept of networks in the organization is not new. Human beings have always found ways to connect with each other through tribes, associations, work groups and many other types of networks. What is new is the speed [...]
Networks Are the New Organization Charts
—-Organization chartIn the tangible economy, power and knowledge flowed primarily from the top down. An organization chart was used to explain how resources and authority were distributed. To show who reports to whom. What is the extent of the control of an individual manager? How are resources allocated? Just about every organization had and needed [...]
The New Management: Finding the right balance
As you probably know by now, we see the modern business as a knowledge factory. This means that all managers need to become expert in the management of a knowledge factory. There are three critical management concepts that you will need to add to your toolkit in order to get the best results possible from [...]
6 principles of management in the knowledge era
We often use the image of a “knowledge factory” to talk about the infrastructure of the today’s business. A huge percentage of this infrastructure is in intangible knowledge assets that work together as a system, the knowledge factory. Once you begin to understand the power of the combination of your knowledge assets, you are on [...]
A Lego Model of a Medical Device Company
Here’s one more example of a Lego model of the knowledge factory of a company. This one is for a medical device company that sells a physical product that is supported by a service. The product is used by consumers in their home. But the company does not have direct contact with the consumers until [...]
Intangible Capital is the New Factory
The core of the tangible economy is the factory. Simply put, a factory is a building where production equipment converts raw material into finished goods. Companies make their money by selling these finished goods. The story of the tangible economy is the story of organizing and running these factories. The modern knowledge business can also [...]
IP and IC — the same thing or not?
Intellectual property (IP) is a term that is usually used to refer to specific types of structural capital that enjoy special legal status. These include patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Each of these categories has a specific body of law associated with it. Patents have to be approved by a national authority. Other categories [...]
