Changing the Mindset
Challenges around energy use, sustainability, health care, transportation and education will create opportunities in almost every industry. In order to take advantage of these opportunities, business owners need to start thinking today about how their business can leverage these opportunities in the future.
Planning for 2009 – A Different Approach
A Strategic Conversations exercise with employees is an inexpensive way to extract information and benefit from the knowledge that your employees possess. You can ask about how the company can perform tasks faster or better or cheaper, and where there are areas to improve.
Taking our own Advice
Michael has done more and more work as a consultant and coach to private business owners. He is also one of the founders of the highly successful Exit Planning Exchange, an organization whose goal is to better prepare advisors to help owner-managed businesses plan for successful exit. Mary has focused on helping our clients to measure, manage and monetize their intellectual capital. She has helped found an informational website and has developed a world-wide following through her blogs and networking.
Change Your Model through Intangible Capital
Luckily, companies built on intellectual capital can be easier to change than those based on large, fixed assets.
Is it the Recession?
They didn’t rely on the economy to fuel their recovery—they built it from their own strengths.
What You can Learn from the Grateful Dead
Every company has extensive knowledge assets. Knowledge resides in the competencies of your people, your processes, your intellectual property, your brands and your relationships with vendors and other external partners (for more information on the study of this kind of knowledge asset, visit the IC Knowledge Center).
Upgrading Tangible and Intangible Infrastructure
But in retrospect, we realized that it was a good description of what we had helped them do—replace their systems bit by bit, one car at a time.
Newest blogger
Trek has been invited to join a group blog that is being convened by Denise Caruso of the Hybrid Vigor Institute. We first met Denise after she had written about one of our favorite topics (intangibles and intellectual capital) for the New York Times, “When Balance Sheets Collide with the New Economy” which highlighted the [...]
Reading List: The Future of Management by Gary Hamel, with Bill Breen
Hamel makes a good case for why modern management is a mature technology. He explains that most of the approaches and tools that we use today were designed to ensure efficient mass production.
Reading List: Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent by Ken Dychtwald, Tamara Erickson and Robert Morison
Workforce Crisis also delves into the challenges of attracting and retaining mid-career workers and young workers. Each group has its own wants, needs and priorities.
