Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2010-03-31

• Bob Hebert: You can’t get back to a robust economy without putting Americans back to work. http://nyti.ms/9cuqwA #
• “…most of the manufacturing associated with that newer, greener economy should take place in the US. ” IC + innovation = growth #

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Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2010-03-30

• RT @D_Andriessen: Bodnar at #ecic Intellectual capital mgt at Corvinus university: “our competitors from Austria do it so we must follow” #
• The power of transparency: restaurant inspection info to be posted in NYC http://nyti.ms/ckOZRu #
• YES!!! Northwest Mutual Life CIO talking about IT as an investment. IT = IC = LT value. http://bit.ly/9yjGlr #
• Strategy Magazine just published my article: Intangible Capital – Looking Inside the Black Box http://bit.ly/aQelqj #
• Just added a new blog post on ic knowledge center: Follow ECIC happenings http://ning.it/d7IhJC #

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Call for Participants: Crossing the Chasm – Moving IC into the Business Mainstream, Hong Kong, November, 2010

I have been invited to lead a mini-track on moving IC into the business mainstream at the ICICKM 2010 in Hong Kong.  This is the 7th annual International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning and will be held on the 11th and 12th of November in Hong Kong.

There are a lot of good reasons to go: meet IC/KM professionals from all over the world, get a closer look at the very ambitious work being done in IC in China and, of course, participate in this conversation about mainstream adoption.

The track that I am organizing Crossing the Chasm: Moving IC into the Business Mainstream is going to focus on:

The move toward a global knowledge economy continues to accelerate. Yet, today, the average businessperson has only a vague understanding of IC, one of the key fields concerned with the business implications of this knowledge economy. Even those who have tried to apply the concepts struggle to make the connection between intangibles and their financial bottom line.

Although the field of IC continues to grow and develop, almost everyone in our community would agree that we labor in obscurity. This track seeks to explore how the IC community can move our field into the business mainstream. Case studies of successful IC projects are especially welcome.

Research issues as follows are of special interest:

• What are the barriers to mainstream adoption of IC concepts?
• What will it take to move IC concepts into the mainstream?
• What are the core concepts upon which mainstream adoption should be built?
• What are the benefits a businessperson can expect from an IC project?
• What is working in current IC practice?
• In this effort, are there lessons the IC world learn from the developments in web and enterprise 2.0?
• What is the right balance between top-down and bottom-up solutions to IC?
• What is the role of the “expert” in adoption of IC concepts in the mainstream?

Although this is an academic conference, you don’t need to write an academic paper:

The conference committee welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics using a range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. Case studies and work-in-progress/posters are welcomed approaches. PhD Research, proposals for roundtable discussions, non-academic contributions and product demonstrations based on the main themes are also invited.

I would love to have lots of case studies, work-in-progress posters and practitioner contributions. Here’s the call for contributions download.

Have an idea? Not sure how to get started? Please give me a call at 781-729-9650 or email me to talk it through.

I hope you will come and participate in our conversation and this great conference!

Case Study: Visualizing and Communicating Corporate Value Through Intangibles Management

Last week, I helped lead a full afternoon workshop organized by the Intangible Asset Finance Society at the Think Tank and Auction hosted last week by ICAP Ocean Tomo in San Francisco. (The auction was fun to watch–here are a few Tweets about the auction).

My co-presenters for the afternoon were Nir Kossovsky of Steel City Re and Andy Gibbs of CXO IP Advisory. We opened up by each making some comments about our perspectives on intangibles management and emerging intangibles markets. My slides are here–I will add links to Nir and Andy’s presentations if they are posted online.

Then we moved to a case study discussion. The discussion was very robust. Since we usually cannot share the contents of client work when we engage in this kind of exercise, it is a great opportunity to share with you how this kind of approach works in practice.

Here’s a summary of the case we gave the participants. Read more

Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2010-03-29

• IT=IC and it is crucial to get biz and IT working together http://bit.ly/b1fp9c #

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Comments on IC 2.0 recorded for ECIC 2010

At the invitation of some colleagues from the intellectual capital community, I just posted some ideas on how to move our field to a new stage, what we have all been calling IC 2.0–an approach to IC that focuses on how to engage businesspeople and get IC thinking into a broad range of businesses. Take a look and let me know what you think! Read more

Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2010-03-27

• ICAP Ocean Tomo auction had big surprise at the end. Close to 500 patents from Walker Digital. Came close to reserve price of $140MM. #
• This was the 10th such auction. Patent market steadily maturing. Glad I was there to see it. #
• Play by play is at @patentauction. #
• RT @umairh: the great firewall of china can be turned on for the rest of the world with a click http://bit.ly/8ZDxzH #

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Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2010-03-26

• Enjoying the ICAP Ocean Tomo Think Tank. 250+ here. Glad to witness the maturing of a new intangible capital market. #
• Must read comments on America’s declining competitiveness from Pascal N. Levensohn http://bit.ly/9neuLc #
• Listening to Levensohn, I feel strongly that failure to get intangibles in the reporting stream fosters short-termism. #

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Maximizing Value of Intangible Capital – My presentation from ICAP Ocean Tomo earlier today

We had a great time with our panel discussion at the ICAP Ocean Tomo track today on Emerging Intangibles Markets. Here are my slides:

After a panel discussion with fellow members of the Intangible Asset Finance Society, Nir Kossovsky and Andy Gibbs, we led the group through a case study of a research and licensing company that had a declining market value. The market viewed it as a troll with low value add. Read more

Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2010-03-23

• Integrated Reporting from PwC. See p. 6 for a different view of the intangibles information gap. http://bit.ly/aeI6Wp #
• Developments in new corporate reporting from UK–authors don’t see how intangibles break the model…http://bit.ly/cFgaTT #
• McColl warns firms are undervalued in M&A becasue they ignore intangibles http://bit.ly/bkSWSa #
• Intangibles are the answer for the future of manufacturing too. http://bit.ly/cNCtxi #

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