Program this Friday: Intangibles and Security

Tax payers expect police, national guard, and military to provide “real” security. Government expects the private sector to provide the lion’s share of security investment. Is there a business case that can help the private sector rationalize the investment and bridge the expectation gap?

Join us Friday, 3 September, at 12h00 EDT for the Mission Intangible Monthly Briefing. Sean Lyon, principal, R.I.S.C. International (Ireland), corporate defense pioneer and the architect of the emerging cross-functional discipline of corporate defense management (CDM) in conversation with Robert Liscouski, member of the Board, Implant Sciences (NASDAQ:IMSC) and former Assistant Secretary, US Department of Homeland Security will explore the business case.

Registration, as always, is complimentary. Slides and an exemplary downloadable program are posted on the EVENTS tab (Link to our Summer 2010 News page, our new RepuStars composite indices, and other content below). Mary Adams, I-Capital Advisors, moderates.

If you are a senior executive, a board member, or have a financial interest in any publicly traded security, you (or a colleague Send to a Friend) won’t want to miss this event. Learn more.

Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2010-08-31

• Emerging job: development and management of intellectual / intangible capital (tools, templates, processes) http://bit.ly/aL6f2D #
• U.S. missing the boat: RT @Baoman: 9 & 23 Oct 2010 The Management & Reporting of IC – Hong Kong http://is.gd/eGCUB (no English version?) #
• Past 10 years, over-invested in housing, underinvested in intangible capital: Why We Struggle http://bit.ly/d1sNmf /cc @feedly #

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Networks: A Question of Control

As with so many other aspects of knowledge assets, there are both bottom-up and top-down aspects to networks. There are many who study networks that see them as analogous to self-organizing, living systems that occur in nature. If you believe this, then you believe that organizations can organize themselves. There is a lot of truth to this and it makes sense to dig in, using the approaches we outline above to understand how a network is working organically so that interventions are effective. But it is unrealistic to believe that businesses will become completely self-organizing in our lifetimes, if ever. Read more

Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2010-08-29

• Defining what gets measured controls the conversation–interesting lesson for the IC community from ag sustainability http://bit.ly/ajpwBz #
• This is why the IRS knows so much about intangibles: Taxation of royalties between associated companies http://bit.ly/aWUOPJ #

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Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2010-08-28

• Dropping my son at college in NC .Looking down the shelves in book store. Exciting diversity of perspectives. #

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Putting Networks to Use…in and for the organization

In all the discussions in recent weeks here on the growth of networks and organizations, it is hard to say which came first—the human or the technological connection. The shift to a knowledge economy has made it more and more attractive to connect and automate using IT and networking technologies. The rise of new forms of networking such as social media is actually fueling the trend. Probably some of the most interesting trends are the situations where the concept of networking is changing the whole vision of the business. If you begin to see your organization as a network, then the world literally opens up to you. Read more

Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2010-08-26

• Just added a new discussion on ic knowledge center – great new study of IC and IT performance (see survey too) http://ning.it/as7j2R #

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Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2010-08-25

• Added IC Basics, How We Help and Our IC to our website–should have done it a long time ago… http://bit.ly/69mpYY #
• I am saddened by how paralyzed our economy is. #
• The American economy continues to be stuck in neutral. Growth and prosperity are elusive. Fear is rising. #
• No one seems to see is that our corporations and our society already hold the greatest intangible capital base in the world. #
• Our collective intangible capital represents the potential for enormous innovation and growth. #
• No one can see intangible capital–it is hidden inside outdated management and reporting systems. #
• Few businesspeople can provide an inventory of their company’s innovation assets, their intangible capital #
• This is exactly what we must do, before it is too late—start leveraging our national intangible capital to fuel a new prosperity #

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Mapping Personal Networks

Another way to approach network analysis within your intangible capital knowledge factory is to zoom down to the level of individual workers.

One of the common ways of using this kind of map is to identify and find patterns in the interaction between groups of employees and/or groups of external people. This kind of analysis can be used to identify critical sources of knowledge, the “go-to” people to find information or solve problems. It can also be used to understand the knowledge exchanges that happen—who helps connect people together, who helps solve problems and those with specialized knowledge.
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Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2010-08-24

• WSJ echoing what we say in Intangible Capital: top-down management is dead http://bit.ly/c3xk6V #
• The path for corporate success today is to understand intangible capital and the new management it requires http://bit.ly/dp2GMO #
• Why is this such a big surpise? Of course employees are a key source of innovation http://bit.ly/b66c2K #
• One of the big challenges of managing innovation is not managing–it’s facilitating bottom-up knowledge flow. #
• Do you work w/ intangible capital, IP, reputation, ERM? Please contribute to this catalog of perspectives @ICKC! http://ning.it/bAYNB1 #
• Goodwill isn’t froth. It is unreported intangibles. HP and Dell get this with 3PAR http://bit.ly/dq1NBQ /cc @feedly #
• We can always depend on @IPStrategist clear thinking Patents Likely Matter Little to US Innovation & Job Creation http://bit.ly/9SnNJE #
• If you are or know a parent, I highly recommend FreeRangeKids – Happy About a Lost Kid http://bit.ly/990Pxb /cc @feedly #

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