Relationship Capital and the Growing Importance of Partners

When thinking of relationship capital, most people default to customers, who obviously are fundamentally important to your business.

However, relationships with other kinds of partners are growing stronger and more important for the same reasons as those described yesterday for customers: increased outsourcing, increased linking of systems and the need for co-creation and innovation. I’ll talk about partnerships in value creation and those that provide support systems for your organization. Read more

Today at noon EDT: Driving Intangible Risk Management into the C-Suite

The black goo may be coming ashore in the Gulf Coast, but many would argue that the muck originated in a remote boardroom. In the wake of major headline risk events at BP, Massey, and the venerated Johnson & Johnson, the IAFS’s Mission Intangible Monthly Briefing tackles the trifecta of risk, governance and compliance with our program, Driving intangible risk management into the C-suite.

Leading this conversation on Friday 4 June at 12h00 EDT are Matthew Hogg, Vice President at Liberty International Underwriters, who chairs the Society’s Risk Committee and Cathy L. Reese, a Principal with Fish & Richardson, who chairs the Society’s IA Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Hogg is a pioneer in intangible asset risk transfer; Ms. Reese is a leading advocate for board-level oversight of intangible asset management.

Registration for this and each Mission Intangible Monthly Briefing is complimentary. Slides and an exemplary downloadable program are posted on the website EVENTS page. Mary Adams, I-Capital Advisors, moderates.

If you are general counsel, chief financial officer, a risk officer, a manager of strategic partnerships, a reputation executive (marketing, PR), a board member of any public company, or have a financial interest in any publicly traded security, you (or a colleague Send to a Friend) won’t want to miss this event.

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Human Capital: The Temp vs. Full-time Employee

Throughout the discussion of unemployment over the past months, I have been watching for a information on a segment of the working population that does not have a single employer. No one counts un- or underemployment of this segment and I have been wondering about how big a trend this is.

In the last week, I found two very interesting sources. They couldn’t answer the unemployment question but they did tell me that this is a bigger segment than I realized. One from Bloomberg BusinessWeek called The Disposable Worker and the other from the Boston Globe on The End of the Office…and the Future of Work. Read more

Call on Intangible Asset Risk and Reputation Metrics

Intangible Asset Finance Society Monthly Call: The President of Intellectual Capital Advisors, Mary Adams, will be hosting Nir Kossovsky on the IAFS monthly call this Friday, July 10th at noon EDT.

Nir is the Chief Executive & Director of Steel City Re, a firm focused on innovating new ways of managing intangible risk. He is also an entertaining speaker and will surely keep Mary on her toes! The call is free but you must register to get the conference information. Hope you can join us!

Program on Relationship Capital Risks this Friday

Mary Adams hosts the monthly call of the Intangible Asset Finance Society on the first Friday of every month. This month’s call on Friday, April 3rd at 12 noon EDT is entitled: IMPOSING PERFORMANCE (BEHAVIOR) REQUIREMENTS ON A COMMERCIAL PARTNER:

Cadbury Schweppes, Kellogg, Mattel - all iconic firms whose products, cash flows, and reputations have been sullied by their business partners through ethical breaches including melamine in milk, salmonella in peanut butter, and lead paint. Read more