History

From Mary Adams, the creator of the IC Knowledge Center:

The story of the IC Knowledge Center is the story of the evolution of communication over the past decade.

The site began as my personal bibliography when I became interested in the field of intangible capital. In early 2006, I created a static website that included my favorite resources. Every month, I would add a handful of new resources and send out a e-newsletter announcing these new additions.

In 2008, I realized that what I had been doing was blogging without the benefit and flexibility of a blog platform. So I moved all the content to a blog created in WordPress. Two colleagues, Henrik Martin and Peder Hofman-Bang, joined in on the posting.

As the world moved through a deep recession, I became more and more militant about the need for improved ICManagement. We now live in the knowledge era and the serious global and national challenges we face will only be resolved through the better use knowledge intangibles.

Along the way, I have gotten to know a lot of other people that feel the way that I do. That's why I made the move in early 2010 of taking the IC Knowledge Center to the next level of communication and create:

A network of smart people who believe in
the importance of IC and
finding better ways to
manage, measure and leverage IC
for profit and social benefit.

I hope you will join us and contribute to our shared vision to reshape business and the world by making every person, every business and every community smarter and more productive. You can start by joining our network, sharing your favorite resources and participating (or starting!) a discussion. Together, we can build a better world using the knowledge that already exists in our communities.

The next step is yet to come: a set of open source tools and methodologies to facilitate ICManagement...