smarter companies http://www.i-capitaladvisors.com building value through intangible capital Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:01:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Intangible Capital Reading List on Twitter for 2012-02-10 http://www.i-capitaladvisors.com/2012/02/10/intangible-capital-reading-list-on-twitter-for-2012-02-10/ http://www.i-capitaladvisors.com/2012/02/10/intangible-capital-reading-list-on-twitter-for-2012-02-10/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:01:00 +0000 Mary Adams http://www.i-capitaladvisors.com/2012/02/10/intangible-capital-reading-list-on-twitter-for-2012-02-10/
  • Relationship Capital: Brands versus Reputation http://t.co/mFJjYWdB #
  • The Dangerous Myth of IP Value http://t.co/xP3oROtl #
  • Saunders: what will differentiate firms in the 21st century will be how they manage their intangible capital http://t.co/7WANkIPw #
  • Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals http://t.co/teNmLz4l from Farzad Sabetzadeh http://t.co/c2H0qJMa #
  • Moneyball and Intangibles http://t.co/lk5cBx1J #
  • Intangible Cost, Not Value http://t.co/X6eX7G4z #

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  • Can you afford the risk? Sarbannes Oxley, Duty of Oversight and Intangible Capital http://t.co/nWPYBxrp #
  • Intangibles Measurement IV: Indicators and Performance Management http://t.co/6fSyEGbv #
  • Putting Networks to Use…in and for the organization http://t.co/8hozzdgD #
  • Jeffrey Philips on the Innovation Paradox http://t.co/5gFXZbCV #

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    ]]>     http://www.i-capitaladvisors.com/2012/02/09/intangible-capital-reading-list-on-twitter-for-2012-02-09/feed/ 0     A Quick Quiz: Do you have what it takes to realize the potential of a new innovation or IP asset? http://www.i-capitaladvisors.com/2012/02/08/a-quick-quiz-ic-for-ip/ http://www.i-capitaladvisors.com/2012/02/08/a-quick-quiz-ic-for-ip/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:24 +0000 Mary Adams http://www.i-capitaladvisors.com/?p=3355 We had a really fun opportunity offered to us late last year. It came from an unexpected source but we were thrilled to do it.

    The opportunity was to build a “QuickScan” for business professionals to analyze the strength of a business opportunity. The request came from the folks at Transfer Pricing Associates, a global practice based in the Netherlands. They wanted to include this tool on their new site, IPR Plaza (worth checking out, it’s a great site)

    Their offer was unexpected because most people dealing with intellectual property rights (IPR) have a very IP-centric view of business. So we were thrilled to work with people that understand the need to plan, build and monetize IP with a more holistic view.

    We came up with a simple set of 20 questions that

    go a long way to framing a business opportunity for any organization with a new piece of IP (including any new idea, technology or innovation) that they want to commercialize. The questions are grouped in four categories:

    • Human Capital: Do your management and employees have the competencies and knowledge needed to successfully exploit and continue to renew this IP?
    • Structural Capital: Do you have the processes needed to support the production, marketing and sale of this IP?
    • Relationship Capital: Do you have the right networks to get access to target customers and partners? Is this IP a good fit with your existing brand?
    • Strategic Capital: Is there a good market opportunity for this IP and do you have a business model in place to take advantage of this opportunity?

    We hope that, collectively, these questions are a quick way to frame the question:

    Do you have what it takes to realize the potential of a new innovation or IP asset?

    So do you have what it takes? You can take the assessment here.  The link to get started is on the lef-hand side of the page. After you’re done, you’ll get a custom report with a graphic that hopefully shows better balance than the one shown here.

    And if you have a colleague that might benefit from this assessment please share this with them!

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  • The doughnut hole in the corporate info universe http://t.co/hQP9nloM #
  • Bottoms Up (Temporary) Pay Cut http://t.co/0kqaBoSR #
  • RT @DavidGurteen: Empowering Women Doesn't Help Them http://t.co/5ZyXBdmq #SocialGood #
  • The Future Is (Gasp) Manufacturing? – Forbes http://t.co/N6Avkibq based on what Denning calls radical management–what we call ic mgmt #
  • The Stock Market is Not the Best Way to Value Intangibles http://t.co/Z0tXkgxl #
  • Save the (intangible) prosperity infrastructure – The Hill's Congress Blog: http://t.co/z8I1aRVw via @AddThis international perspective #
  • Book Review – The New Capitalist Manifesto http://t.co/cxa9PeRv #

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  • Intangibles Are the New Raw Materials http://t.co/7GrHjtfQ #
  • The Central Importance of Human Capital http://t.co/tpIuCAKZ #
  • RT @LouProsperi: @danielpink @profhamel "depreciating intellectual capital" actually ignores the full definition of IC #
  • RT @LouProsperi: @danielpink @profhamel intellectual capital incl personal knowledge but also that in rel & systems http://t.co/K7gzFRHn #
  • Intangible Investment Builds Value – A not so surprising review of the research http://t.co/Srbvubp1 #

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    ]]>     http://www.i-capitaladvisors.com/2012/02/07/intangible-capital-reading-list-on-twitter-for-2012-02-07/feed/ 0     Trek principal Mary Adams to co-chair new intangibles advisory committee http://www.i-capitaladvisors.com/2012/02/06/trek-principal-mary-adams-to-co-chair-new-intangibles-advisory-committee/ http://www.i-capitaladvisors.com/2012/02/06/trek-principal-mary-adams-to-co-chair-new-intangibles-advisory-committee/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:01:38 +0000 Mary Adams http://www.i-capitaladvisors.com/?p=3349 We are happy to announce that Trek principal, Mary Adams, has been invited to co-chair a new Advisory Committee for the Athena Alliance, a think tank in Washington DC in the vanguard of identifying, understanding, analyzing, and educating on the information, intangibles, and innovation (I3 or I-Cubed) economy.

    The mission of the Advisory Committee is to expand Athena Alliance’s understanding of the changes taking place in the US and global economy and to offer ways to meet the economic challenges arising from the emerging interconnected knowledge intensive world.

    Other members of the Committee include:

    • Andrew Sherman, Jones, Day (co-chair)
    • Joe Dyer, iRobot
    • Gabe Fried, Hilco Streambank
    • Allen Howell, Corporate Flight Management
    • John Hudson, Deloitte
    • Don Kuratko, Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Indiana University
    • Bob Laux, Microsoft
    • Jim Malackowski, OceanTomo

    For more information, please visit the Athena website and read the press release about the advisory committee

     

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  • How to Measure Innovation, A Reading List http://t.co/Rpn02MhP #
  • Essays on information technology and intangible capital (a don't-miss MIT thesis by Adams Saunders) http://t.co/7WANkIPw #
  • Saunders found intangible capital correlated with higher market values beyond cost-based measures (30-55% premium) http://t.co/7WANkIPw #
  • Saunders confirms the outsized returns on IT to build structural capital (the most scalable and repeatable form of IC) http://t.co/7WANkIPw #
  • Thoughts on value added and trade deficits. Are we underestimating the IC-heavy contribution of American companies? http://t.co/TiTfKPgN #
  • Intangible Definitions http://t.co/ntdZsl1i #
  • John Dearborn: What If Universities Recruited Entrepreneurs Like They Recruited Athletes? – Innovation America http://t.co/vz0n1SBw #
  • People that build companies to keep them…The Other 99 Percent: Entrepreneurs | Xconomy – Innovation America http://t.co/FgfSD8kE #
  • Accounting for Intangibles Represents Strategic Opportunity for Corporate America http://t.co/RHgasBU7 #

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  • Bernard/Montague: investors paying premiums for co that are doing reasonably well & have demonstrated ability to grow http://t.co/RZGt3jwY #
  • Good intro by CFO patent portfolio mgmt http://t.co/yGTmJ3qh (But they shouldn't imply that patents are only source of intangible capital) #
  • RT @acgconnecticut: Do over in exit planning: take all cash! #privateequity #

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  • U.S. press freedom suffered in last year's protests http://t.co/nTeZ9arH #

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  • Today is the 13th anniversary of the founding of our firm. Feels like we are just beginning–so many opportunities coming up! #

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