About the Authors of Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century Organization
We (Mary Adams and Michael Oleksak) are both former bankers who began our careers just as the IBM PC hit the marketplace in the early 1980s. That was actually the moment when a discernible “extra” value became visible in the public markets over and above the book value of corporate assets. In hindsight, economists now [...]
The Moment is Now to Leverage Our Knowledge Intangibles
Intangibles make up 70% of the value of the average company. They drive competitive advantage. They determine the innovation capacity of a company. Yet they continue to be ignored. And now we are at a moment of truth. Our economy seemingly made huge progress in the past decades. Computers created efficiencies and fueled profits. They [...]
The Dangerous Secret of Our Economy: The Intangible Information Gap
Although intangibles are more and more important, few companies can provide a description of their own knowledge factory. Nor can they provide an inventory of its critical components. How much it cost to build, maintain, and operate the factory. How well it is performing. The knowledge factory is essentially invisible in most companies. Experts [...]
