Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Social media is about people, not technology. Fearful leaders see social media as a threat to productivity, intellectual capital , privacy, management authority, regulatory compliance and a host of other things, and often discourage and even prohibit its use. And their attitude matters, a lot. This rarely bears fruit.

Media 17

Media Intellectual Capital Competitive Advantage Compliance 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

Most organizations, however, still view social media as a threat to productivity, intellectual capital, security, privacy, management authority, or regulatory compliance. In just a few years, social media has come to dominate many of our personal communications. We collaborate daily, sometimes productively, sometimes not.

Media 20

Media Organization Intellectual Capital CIO 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Three-quarters of the world's CEOs say more emphasis should be placed on measuring the value of non-financial assets such as intellectual capital and customer relationships. This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Customer Loyalty 16

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Manufacturers invest most of their capital into physical assets, while high-tech firms invest in R&D to create new intellectual capital. But all assets are not created equal, especially as the technological landscape changes. There’s no question why legacy organizations are tackling digital transformation now.

Intangible Assets 14

Intangible Assets Business Model How To Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

While the technology giant's second-quarter revenue increased by 3%, its relatively new CEO, Leo Apotheker, was forced to lower the forecast for revenue for the fiscal year. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction. That put it in the right place at the right time as the technology revolution was beginning.

Software 14

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Instead, ideas, technologies, capabilities, and resources somehow organize themselves to meet the human and financial needs of new ventures. The sector has entities, too, to improve the flow of intellectual capital. It will continue to shorten the half life of every technology, product, and market niche.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It governs an organization's cultivation of its intellectual capital—how it leverages what it already knows how to do, and how it evolves its offering based on changing market demands. You see evidence of companies' different DNAs in the ways they react to risks and opportunities. This is the other "hard" part of DNA: strategy.

Software 15

Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2014

To answer those questions, the authors look at the share of value in manufacturing captured by high-skilled workers (those with a college degree or equivalent), medium-skilled workers (high school degree), low-skilled workers (less than high school), and capital.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Skills Intellectual Capital Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

McKinsey responded that it was actually investing more on intellectual capital, but on the industry-specific variety of more use to consultants and clients.) As technology makes networks tighter and easier to put together, does the risk of contagion increase proportionally?

McKinsey 16

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

You can read about it in recent issues of The Economist , The New York Times , and in the book The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The arguments are familiar. This may all change as China innovates and grows.

Intellectual Capital 9

Intellectual Capital Magazine Creativity Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

When a company misses the future, the fault invariably lies with a small cadre of seasoned executives who failed to write off their depreciating intellectual capital. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. If they are unwilling to adapt and learn, the entire organization stalls. He was right.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

When a company misses the future, the fault invariably lies with a small cadre of seasoned executives who failed to write off their depreciating intellectual capital. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. If they are unwilling to adapt and learn, the entire organization stalls. He was right.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Intellectual capital. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. But what if the value is not in the intellectual capital itself but in the connectivity of that IP? But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

As technology continues to change and challenge even the most successful incumbent organizations in every industry, the cost of inertia is growing. According to Ocean Tomo, a consulting firm focused on intellectual capital, physical assets (plant, property, and equipment) made up more than 80% of the market value of the S&P 500 in 1975.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Business Model GAAP Budgeting 8