Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2011-04-30

• An interesting site from The Economist RT @TheIdeasEconomy: Post your ideas in Ideas Marketplace. http://ow.ly/4F76O #
• Companies should be held accountable for the sustainability and long-term management of their intangible capital, their core knowledge. #
• From Ken Jarboe at Athena Alliance: Using tax policy the right way to spur investment in intangibles http://feedly.com/k/keaW7X #
• "in wake of the financial crisis, cynicism rules. Reputation is ignored…much diminished financial system" http://nyti.ms/k3Vi6P #
• You can stop at #1 Short-termism…Five Reasons Why CEO’s Don’t Get Innovation http://feedly.com/k/lpR5n5 #

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Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2011-04-29

• A great story about an early pioneer who married religious freedom and democracy http://bo.st/mlBQYM #
• Our LEGO models of #intangiblecapital reviewed in Italy! http://bit.ly/jS4QvR #
• New EU report RESPONSES FROM PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON DISCLOSURE OF
  NON-FINANCIAL INFORMATION BY COMPANIES http://bit.ly/j2dU4r #
• Latest newsletter: Management 2.0 – Ben Bernanke to speak at intangibles conference! http://conta.cc/mkNuWm via #constantcontact #

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Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2011-04-27

• Career development within a lattice or network: Why you should say goodbye to the corporate ladder http://sbne.ws/r/7lsE #

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Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2011-04-26

• Excellent paper! What is Intellectual Capital? And why it should be measured by Abhijit Talukdar http://bit.ly/enPofK #
• Lots here for #futureofmoney followers The Sharing Economy http://bit.ly/eS0qx4 creating intangible capital by faster turns of tangibles. #
• More democratization of markets – getting access to your own data #futureofmoney #intangiblecapital http://nyti.ms/hE8pmS #

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The Coloplast Experiment

Here is one of my favorite examples of the value of greater transparency around intangibles.

This experiment was performed by PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Corporate Reporting practice a number of years ago. It used involved creating two versions of an annual report of Coloplast, a Danish company recognized as a  leader in corporate reporting.

• The first was an original version of the Coloplast annual report. In addition to the normal information in an average annual report (financial statements, narrative, and a few key metrics), this report included extensive  quantified non-financial indicators to make a clear link between its strategy and its financial performance.
• The second version of the annual report stripped out the quantified non-financial data. The stripped-down report was still richer in detail than the annual reports provided by most companies in the market. But the  critical non-financial metrics were missing.

Two groups of analysts reviewed the different reports. The conclusions were striking.  Read more

Making things and the future of the U.S. economy, A Reading List

I have been very absorbed in what (finally) seems to be an accelerating conversation in the media about the future of the U.S. economy. The catalyst is the budget story in Congress but even more, the fact that the recovery doesn’t feel that strong. And the fundamentals are still pretty scary.

U.S. policy and business practice have not focused on the role of manufacturing in our economy. I think there is a lot here we need to understand. Here’s my recent reading list on this subject: Read more

Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2011-04-23

• Thought-provoking: feudal aspects of giving your content to platforms like #facebook http://ning.it/fuqKeb @ingenesist #futureofmoney #

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Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2011-04-22

• Women as a driving force for company growth and economic success http://t.co/X6pvpec via @AddThis #

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Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2011-04-21

• A nice synthesis of thinking about organizations as dynamic systems http://bit.ly/eMAmRK #
• New fodder for my human capital colleagues: CFO on HC outlook http://ning.it/gifAO7 #
• I especially like suggestion at end of CFO article that investment in training and education is a capital cost (we call it i-capex) #

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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 the societal cost of things like burgers (a $3 burger includes $10 in health and environmental costs) and $10 of subsidies of water, land and jobs) and oil (hidden costs add $4/gallon the price). Read more

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