Intangible Capital, Banking and Innnovation

Our IC Practitioners program on Tuesday, November 8 will kick off with two representatives from the Brazilian Development Bank describing how they have incorporated IC analysis into their credit process.  There is a lot going on in the Brazilian economy and it will be exciting to learn the activities in this bank.

Our second speak will be Dr. Bill Miller talking about IC, innovation and job growth in the U.S.

The program is a free, web-based program at the IC Knowledge Center starting at 8 AM EST (our audience stretches from California around the globe to Australia so we start early in the U.S.). Please join us!

First anniversary of the IC Knowledge Center!

We have close to 250 members who have had 150+ postings and discussions in in the past year. Where to now? Become a part of the conversation.

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The Future of IC

Had a great time last week at the ICICKM conference in Hong Kong. I had hoped to share my thoughts in real time via twitter but I kept getting cut off.

The conference was held at Hong Kong Polytechnic University which has 20,000+ students. They have very vibrant knowledge management and intellectual capital programs. One of the stand-out presentations was by Stephen Selby from the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Department about their IC Management program that has been completed by 500+ local SME’s.

I led a track on Moving IC into the Mainstream all day Friday. We had some great papers and presentations on case studies of IC in practice (I will try to get the authors to share their papers).

I presented a paper that I co-authored with Verna Allee called Optimized for Growth, a case study of an IC approach to scaling a sales organization. Here are the slides of the case study too.

We capped off the track with a discussion led by John Dumay of the University of Sydney on the barriers and enablers of IC in practice. We posted the discussion bullets on the IC Knowledge Center.

Then we segued into the closing forum of the conference. Organizers WB Lee and Eric Tsui kindly gave me the opportunity to pitch my thoughts on how to shape IC practice going forward and invite the conference participants to join a project I am launching with John Dumay called The Future of IC at the IC Knowledge Center. The goal is to gather stories on how IC concepts are being used in practice. We are calling it an open conversation and research project. John will be analyzing the content of the stories in a sense-making exercise. We also invite others to use these stories for research and practice.

Hope you will join in the conversations!

Lessons Learned Creating an IC Community on Ning

If you follow this blog, you may have noticed a hiatus of ten days or so on my meatier posts (I keep the micro posts going through Twitter). Here’s what has been happening…

The IC Knowledge Center, a community I started at the beginning of the year is taking off! Coming at the same time that we are doing the final reviews for our book and keeping up with client work, it has been a bit of a distraction–but a wonderful one.

We just went over 125 members, all very impressive folks from all around the world. We are also getting a good start at critical mass of different perspectives. Read more