What’s your story?
Here’s an economic indicator from the front lines: we have been busy writing business plans with a number of our clients. This is a cyclical activity, something people do when they see opportunities on the horizon. Based on what we are seeing, lots of companies are seeing opportunities to grow and build value. A business plan is [...]
Institute of Management Accountants Event: Intangible Capital, the real value of a business
The NH Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants is hosting Trek principals, Mary Adams and Michael Oleksak, at their February meeting. From the event announcement: Did you know that a balance sheet presented under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles can only explain 20% of the value of the average company? The rest is lumped [...]
The Conference Board hosting webinar by Trek principals
Trek is very proud to announce that our principals, Mary Adams and Michael Oleksak, have been invited to deliver a webinar for The Conference Board called The Future Drivers of Performance and Value: Understanding the intangible infrastructure of your business The Conference Board has done great macroeconomic research on intangibles and we are excited to [...]
Ben Bernanke talks Intangible Capital
Fed Chief Ben Bernanke gave the opening address, speaking about intangibles, innovation and job growth. Bernanke did not bang his shoe on the podium or make any hand gestures while speaking about this, probably to avoid sending signals to the intangible stock market about his intentions.
Mike Oleksak – panelist at MVVF event on May 11
This panel discussion will help owners evaluate whether their company is already positioned to reap its intrinsic value when the unexpected event orunsolicited offer puts the company in play or whether the owner will be heard to say, “I wish I took the time to be prepared.”
What if you knew?
“What would you do if you, as the business owner, had six months’ notice that you had to sell immediately (maybe because you were going to die?)?” What a great perspective! (aside from the dying part…)
Book Review – The New Capitalist Manifesto
I’m a big fan of Umair Haque’s blog (and have always gotten a kick out of the fact that the blog is on the Harvard Business Review site—they aren’t usually this radical…) Anyway, I had been dying to read his new book The New Capitalist Manifesto. There were some great ideas here…Like his explanation of [...]
Seeing the hidden value in companies
How’s this for making intangibles tangible? This photo shows my partner, Mary Adams, sharing the summary graphs from two IC Value Driver Reports that we recently completed: The photo was taken earlier this week at the Exit Planning Exchange Summit 2011. The twist was that the legend for the graphs was hidden by a red [...]
Manage Reputation by Managing Intangibles
It is actually interesting and somewhat perplexing to us that sustainability reporting has received more attention to date than intangibles reporting. The reason this book has a chapter on reputation is that we feel that intangibles management is a key determinant of corporate reputation. The current lack of information available to stakeholders about intangibles puts [...]
Reputation and Intangibles – Connecting the Dots
My last few posts have been about reputation. There are some out there that would ask what the big deal is. What’s different now? Companies have always had employees and customers. Why do they have more influence now?” Why do I need to think about reputation more than before? There are actually several forces driving [...]
