Profiting from Intellectual Capital

Presents the tools and techniques from the leading intellectual capital innovators: Xerox, Dow Chemical, Hewlett-Packard, Avery Dennison, Eastman Chemical, Rockwell, and Skandia. This book examines how companies can develop financial benefits and extract more value from their intellectual capital. Knowledge is more than power. It's profits, too. Tools and techniques for extracting even more value from your company's intellectual capital-from today's leading intellectual capital innovators: Xerox, Dow Chemical, Hewlett-Packard, Avery Dennison, Eastman Chemical, Rockwell, and Skandia "Patrick Sullivan . . . has brought together some of the best thinkers and best thinking on the subject of intellectual capital. Anyone who hopes to profit from intellectual capital will profit from Profiting from Intellectual Capital."-Thomas A. Stewart, author of Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations "The first thorough exposition of how companies manage and extract value from their intellectual capital. The discussion of best practices, as well as the high-level conceptual examination of various intellectual capital issues, is an important contribution to this fast-growing field."-Baruch Lev, PhD, The Philip Bardes Professor of Accounting and Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University, and Director, The Intangibles Research Project at New York University "This is a remarkable compendium of analytic approaches to that most elusive of management goals-managing intellectual capital. It gives our state-of-the-practice knowledge a most substantial boost."-Larry Prusak, Managing Principal, Knowledge Management, IBM Corporation