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ICounts Index

Are intangibles important to your organization?

The ICounts Index is an open source methodology that helps you quickly illustrate the relative importance of intangibles to your own or a client’s business (see terms of use below).

To calculate the index,  ICounts Index or add up the score for each of these business assets:

How important are these assets to the future growth and performance of your business?

Rank from 0-not at all to 5-highly important--but please keep in mind that just because something is necessary does not automatically mean that it is important.

     Inventory          _____                      People                   _____

     Equipment        _____                    Systems                 _____ 

     Buildings          _____                     Relationships        _____

     Land                 _____                     Strategy                 _____    

Your Intangibility Index                       

     Intangible assets total    _____                                

     Tangible assets total      _____                                

     Intangibility Index          _____

       Calculation: intangibles/(intangibles+tangibles)                       

Intangibility Comparables by Sector  

     Energy                                           69%                            

     Materials                                       78%                            

     Industrials                                      87%                            

     Consumer Discretionary             88%                            

     Consumer Staples                       94%                            

     Health Care                                  89%                            

     Financials                                     64%                            

     Telecommunication Services     79%                            

     Information Technology                82%                            

     Utilities                                          62%                            

Sector data from Ocean Tomo, "The Power of Intangible Assets, An Analysis of the S&P 500"      

For more information on ICounts or our training programs, please contact Mary Adams by email or phone at 781-729-9650.   

Terms of Use: We make the ICounts Index methodology available under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, which allows for both personal and commercial derivative works, as long as they credit Smarter-Companies and release their designs under the same license. Please note that the ICounts name is a trademark of Smarter-Companies and should only be used by those licensed to do so.