Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century Organization was written by Mary Adams and Michael Oleksak and published by Praeger in May 2010.
The book reflected the research and practical work done by the authors in their
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Smarter-Companies was launched in January 2013 but its roots go back many years to Mary Adams' work helping companies with integrated approaches to manage, measure and communicate their financial and non-financial value creation.
We work direc
Our website is home to a community that began as the IC Knowledge Center in 2006. The name has changed but the purpose hasn't: to provide a venue for cross-functional conversations about integrated value creation. Check out our Member:
Mary Adams helps companies create sustainable value for shareholders and stakeholders. She is an expert on the integrated model which includes tangible, intangible and natural capitals.
She started her career in the world of hard assets and fin
Smarter-Companies helps your organization think, act and measure in an integrated, holistic way to drive both profits and prosperity.
The two mega-trends affecting every business today are:
- Rise of the knowledge economy, with value depen
We help organizations drive profits and prosperity through:
Smarter-Companies is collaborating with our European colleagues at Fast Forward Advisors to create the ValueRabbit, a dashboard which displays Amazon-like ratings of key success drivers.
ValueRabbit will help your team work smarter and attract bette
Smarter-Companies Founder, Mary Adams, speaks frequently to spread the word about how to think, manage and communicate about long term growth and value creation that benefits both the corporation and its ecosystem. Expertise includes intangible capit
Articles and white papers authored by Mary Adams:
Jumpstarting Growth, a case study that was one of seven finalists that presented in Italy at the ECKM IC/KM Competition in September, 2015.
Our on-line resources include:
Here's a questionnaire that you can use to evaluate the strength of the intangible capital (IC) ecosystem around your intellectual property (IP).
Prompt: For a specific piece of IP that your company intends to exploit in your business, please answer
Thanks for listening to my conversation with Dustin Mattison on his Future of Supply Chains blog!
As promised, we’d like to make our first on-line class of the Building Smarter Companies course available to Dustin’s listeners. What to learn more? Sig
Training Options
Foundation Course:
Building a Smarter Company – A Toolkit for Consultants and Catalysts
This course provides a primer on how to build a smarter company by focusing on intangible capital (IC). It consists of five modules that correspo
This week, I’ve explained the Smarter Companies Process (SCP) and how it provides a clear methodology for Modelling, Measuring, Managing and producing results that Matter for your clients. In an earlier post, I made the case that you’re selling two k
In preparation for the launch of our new on-line course, Building Smarter Companies we sent out a survey to community members. This is the first of three posts this week to address your questions and concerns:
One of the messages that came through
This post explains how you can lead an intangible capital consulting engagement with your clients.
It’s also a preview of the content in our soon-to-be released course Building Smarter Companies. The course is designed for people like you: consultant
What’s driving the value of your company? It's probably not hard assets like equipment or buildings. Yet these are the tangible assets that are the focus of the accounting and management systems used to justify the valuation of your business.
The wor
Background
As we have moved away from the Industrial Era, the most important infrastructure of organizations is no longer built of tangible assets like machinery and factories. Today, it’s the knowledge infrastructure of the organization that drives
