Huge Opportunities for Innovation — Corporate intangible capital is ready and waiting

Although the economic recovery is slowly building up steam, there is still a lot of work to do. For one thing, we need the economic recovery to turn into a jobs recovery. To do that, we need to start doing things differently. Solve new problems. In a word, innovate.

That’s why I am thankful that Ken Jarboe just revisited Business Week’s piece entitled Obama’s 25 Ways to Rebuild America. When I read this list, I get excited because it shows how many opportunities we have to fundamentally innovate and rebuild our economy: Read more

The Growing Importance of Community and Relationship Capital

Two of my recent Tweets @maryadamsica told stories about the growing importance of relationship capital:

What is Buddhist Economics - Showed the incredible difference in the growth of Business Week’s print edition versus their BW Exchange, where  readers choose the topics. Read more

Shift to a New Model of Capitalism

I don’t usually post on my blogs on Sundays. Not out of any religious sense. Just out of a sense that I don’t want to add to anyone’s reading list on what I hope to be a day of rest.

But today is different. I have been reading more and more people saying that this is a new moment. Wanted to weave the threads together. Read more

Intangibles and the Moment of Truth

Michael Mandel at Business Week has a powerful new video here about the stock market and our economy. Basically, he says the inflation adjusted return on the stock market (prices and dividends) over the past decade is -50%. This is equal to the decline in the Great Depression.

Mandel is talking about “the moment of truth” for investors in the stock market. I think it is a moment of truth for our nation. Read more

The Intangible Tipping Point

Michael Mandel at BusinessWeek has a great article and podcast here on the intangible economy. He points out that the job losses in the current recession have been concentrated in the tangibles sector while the intangible sector is adding Read more

IBM’s Focus on Metrics

Business Week has a very interesting article by Stephen Baker based on his book The Numerati on the use of metrics in business. It describes how IBM is gathering and using data on its workers.

The data IBM is examining includes resumes (for skills), project records (experience) online calendars (use of time), cell phone use and emails (how employees communicate and with whom)–everything but personnel files, which are off limits. An example of the expected use of the data Read more