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Who are ICountants?
ICountant (TM) is a new title that was introduced by Smarter-Companies to describe people who have been trained in use of our open source and proprietary ICounts Tools. It’s an evolving skillset but here’s what the title means tod
What's driving innovation in your organization?
It's probably not hard assets like equipment or buildings. Yet these are the tangible assets that are the focus of your accounting and management systems.
The world is different today. The drivers of i
Introduction
With the rapid growth of information technologies, markets change continually and ideas can spread globally in an instant. Companies can easily lose their competitive advantage and market position. In this quickly changing environment
The ICounts Index is a great exercise to launch your exploration of intangible capital. All you have to do is rate the importance of different kinds of resources to the future financial success of your or any organization:
Add up the two columns t
At Taylor Protocols, our mission is to forever change the way businesses look at their people, and forever change the way employees look at their job.
We have a data-driven process that stewards people by measuring the nature of the person with a 9
ICounts Visualizatons
How do intangibles support your business model?
The open source ICounts Visualization tools are helpful for making sense of the lists of assets in your ICounts Inventory (see terms of use below). We advocate two approaches t
Executive Overview
ForeTell® – Test Drive Your Critical Decisions
ForeTell helps you make critical decisions more effectively. Using your own organizational knowledge, ForeTell helps you anticipate and assess the likely outcomes of alternate decisi
IMF Academy is an independent publisher focusing on business information for managers and decision-makers in large and middle-sized companies and non-profit organisations. During the past 20 years, we gained a solid reputation by providing to-the-p
STPI helps people age 55+ figure what they really want to accomplish.
Jack Beauregard, author, founder and CEO of STPI, has been doing this work for 20 years. In 2009, Jack and Paul Cronin became partners to create a platform to spread Jack’s pr
The Smarter Companies marketplace purpose is to list and promote organizations whose services enhance the value of an organizations intangibles. The listing will be open to viewing by the public.
Smarter-Companies plans to build a unique marketplace
Training Options
Foundation Course:
Building Smarter Companies – A Toolkit for Consultants and Catalysts
This course provides a primer on a consulting methodology for building smarter companies by focusing on intangible capital (IC). It consists of
ICountsTM Graphs
The ICounts Graphs is a proprietary diagnostic platform used by consultants to help their clients drive corporate profits, growth, performance and value.
This tool was created by Smarter-Companies and is used by our ICountan
ICounts Inventory
What are the key intangibles driving your success?
The ICounts Inventory is an open source methodology for identifying the core intangible capital of an organization (see terms of use below).
These questions should ideally be
