Leveraging Your Organization’s Unique Knowledge

Organizational knowledge is a more explicit form of structural capital than culture but, like culture, can be hard to pin down.

This is all the knowledge that is captured and recorded in your company. This means that every product design, every process map, every training manual, every formula, every document, every email, every entry ever made in a knowledge management system is part of your organizational knowledge. It includes all the knowledge that is being captured from your human and relationship capital. And capturing it is an important first step to the process of leveraging it. Read more

Defining Intellectual Property: The Rest of the Story

A few weeks ago as we were circulating drafts of our book Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century Organization, I posted about the dilemma we were facing of what to call structural capital What is the Right Definition of Intellectual Property.

In the initial draft, we made the case that all structural capital is intellectual property. The aim was to help businesspeople see that all knowledge is valuable and that IP, while important, is not the only kind of knowledge asset and is not the only strategy for protecting knowledge assets. Read more