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Management 2.0: Leveraging the Growing Intangible Side of Your Business - White paper based on an article from Emerald’s Business Strategy Series that  won a 2009 Emerald Literati Award as a Highly Commended Paper. The paper was the inspiration for a book currently under contract with Praeger’s Greenwood Press with the working title Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century Corporation.

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Intangible Capital: Looking Inside the Black Box - We often explain that the 70% of corporate value that is intangible in companies today is stuck inside a “black box.” This article from Strategy magazine tells the story of a company that looked inside the black box to let loose its potential for innovation and growth.

The Weakest Link in Corporate Intellectual Asset Management - An article published in IAM Magazine that examined the results of 430 IC Ratings of corporations around the world–showing that process- and intellectual property-management lag human- and relationship-management.

IC: Ready to Cross the Chasm? - A paper that includes case studies of nine companies around the world that have used the intellectual assessment tool, IC Rating. This paper was presented at the 2009 European Conference on Intellectual Capital.

Cultivating Innovation, Lessons from America’s Chief Innovation Officers - A Trek/ICA White Paper that explains a research project our firm undertook on the practices of American CIO’s and the dual challenges they face of creating an innovation process as well as an ecosystem in which innovation will thrive.

Power of Intellectual Capital Assessment - A Trek/ICA White Paper about evaluation techniques for IC.

Accounting in the Knowledge Era - Presentation made to Simmons MBA Program on the dramatic changes that are happening in the way companies develop and report their operational results.

IC and the Future of Finance - Excerpt from an article called FEI@75: What Does the Future Hold for Finance and CFO’s?

Where’s the Beef? - Article that originally appeared in The American Venture Network on how VC’s can do a better job assessing intellectual capital.

Strategy in a Flat World - Presentation to Financial Executives International (FEI).

Will CFO’s Keep Their Seat at the Strategy Table? Article that originally appeared in The Business Edge on the failing of financial professionals to provide strategic information about key knowledge assets.

Intellectual Capital Focus Can Increase Value to VC’s Article that originally appeared in the Indus Business Journal.

Getting Top Dollar for Intellectual Capital Article that originally appeared in M&A Today.

The Intangible (But Very Real) Opportunity for Management Consultants Article that originally appeared in Management Consulting News

Intangible Assets, Tangible Risks Article that originally appeared in Risk Factor magazine.