Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Management, Systems & Planning, Strategy & Competition, Strategic Planning, Decision Making, Knowledge Capital, Specialty Boutique, Strategic Management 

Description:Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st-Century Organization is for every manager struggling to succeed and innovate in today'sknowledge-based economy. This must-have handbook helps businesspeoplebuild smarter, more successful companies by maximizing the knowledgethat is already inside their organizations. Most businesspeoplehave heard of the growing importance of knowledge workers, informationtechnology, innovation, networks, reputation, and performancemanagement. Like no other guidebook, Intangible Capital shows how each of these trends fit into an overall discipline of intangiblesmanagement. The book takes the ten basic building blocks of traditional, industrial-era businesses and defines their knowledge-eraequivalents--intangibles as the new raw material, intellectual capital(IC) as the new production line, IC assessment as the new balance sheet, and networks as the new organizational chart. This approach provides aclear road map for managers adapting to the realities of business today, one that helps translate the new world of the knowledge-based economyinto understandable terms and ready-to-implement ideas.TitleFeatures:Includes an exercise at the end of each chapter thatenables readers to connect the chapter to their own businessesPresents a resource section in each chapter for additional print andonline sourcesAn accompanying website at intangiblecapitalbook.com with sections for all keycorporate titles (CEO, CFO, CIO, COO, etc.) shows how the book relatesto their work and serves as a forum for ideas among readersA fullindex covering both industrial- and knowledge-era tools to make iteasier for readers to make a connection with their current workapproaches - from Amzon