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In Aiaf (Association of Italian Financial Analyst) we are the opinion that XBRL language has the technical-operational characteristics to represent in electronic format also the informative contents related to the intangible assets.

The informative structure of XBRL that adopts a specific taxonomy allows to formalize and to codify in a standard method the indicators related to the intangible assets, as well as the relative methods of measurement, classification and…

Recognizing, seizing and amplifying strategic serendipity.

Capitalizing on unanticipated, anomalous strategic events.

See how at http://bponline.amcham.gr/?p=1082

Mary and fellow members of ICKC.

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

The last IC Practitioners was quite good with Dr. John Dumay elaborating on 'IC leads to greater profits'. Indeed yes.

I want to bring to your attention that on 24th November 2011 a Guardian Sustainability Business-Unilever Sustainable Living live Debate brought out a number of issues, well articulated by Paul Polman CEO of Unilever inaugurating the issue of Five Levers of Change. The…

Dear Mary and Fellow members of ICKC

Working on for the government of Tamil Nadu for a comprehensive valuation of Governance. Every project, every ministry, every local body will be evaluated. You may have a look at the Executive Summary and Table of Contents of my proposal to TN at the link:…

This morning there is a storm of comments on Twitter about a Bill Simmons post about the NBA negotiations where he says:

I don’t trust the players’ side to make the right choices, because they are saddled with limited…

I talk a lot about the knowledge era. I specialize in the measurement, management and monetization of knowledge intangibles. I wrote a book on intangible capital. So what I am about to say shouldn’t be that big a surprise to me but it kind of is….

Technology is not as important as it used to be.

If you think about it, technology and top-down industrial models still dominate our thinking. When we industrialized our…

Winds of adversity? Do you embrace strategic serendipity? Do you master "effective surprises"? Find out at

http://bponline.amcham.gr/?p=1082

I stole this title from an article I read recently in Time. The article Street Smarts is about infrastructure. And why infrastructure changes need to be planned in a new way.

Just as we industrialized every corner of our economy in the industrial era, so too must we knowledgeize…

As the wife of a baseball expert (and co-author with Michael of Beisbol) I known for years about Bill James, Sabermetrics and Michael Lewis’ book, Moneyball, that inspired the new movie starring Brad Pitt. So I was more than happy to head out on the opening weekend to see the movie.

What I…

Ken Jarboe, gave his presentation, on this ICKC platform on July 12th – ‘Intangible Assets as Sources of Increased Productivity and Enterprise Value‘ – A Personal Summary of the Conference – “New Building Blocks for Jobs and Economic Growth – May 16th-17th 2011 – sponsored by OECD, Athena Alliance, Kauffman, The Conference Board, McDonough School of Business…

Dear ICKC member

I signal you that the finance Franch website Easy Bourse has recently dedicated great attention to the theme of the intangible assets realizing  a lot of interviews to professionals to which I have also participated and you can find my interview to the following link. I hope can be of your interest and are ery appreciate your comments.

Best regards. Andrea Gasperini…

Intangible Connecting the Dots – .gov, .com, .edu, .. Intellectual Capital of The state of Israel – Case Study by IBCM

I am pleased to release this Research Paper from IBCM a Case Study on Intellectual Capital of The State of Israel. The State of Israel has done exceptionally well in Human Resources utilization for the growth and achievements, that are many, of the country. Countries like India that waste Agricultural Produce in…

Thanks Edna:

 Let me take the opportunity to let you know briefly on my theory of Intangible and the use of it in Company, Micro-macro level analysis and measurement of IC and related areas of interest to you.

1. Intangible…

Just catching up from the New Building Blocks for Jobs and Economic

Growth conference in DC. I posted pretty actively on Twitter (or as Bernanke called it Tweeter) during the public sessions…

Hi Guys, When I saw there was a posting on a newly published Human Capital Handbook I thought "Wow! The world is paying attention after all!" I was thinking, of course, that the post referred to:

The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital

Check Link http://bponline.amcham.gr/?p=703

Commentary most welcome!



I’m new to this community, so go easy on me! But I thought I’d share something first, to see what others thought of it, but also as way of showing what interests me most, which is the steadily growing realisation that it’s in the interests of society as a whole that financial masters and their business slaves learn a new shared language, that being human capital.



The Human Capital Handbook - you can download it , for free, here…