For ten years Actcell Corporation has been a cutting-edge consultancy, providing intellectual capital management services major corporates in Japan. After the acqusition of Intellectual Capital Sweden AB earlier this year, the network and customer base is suddenly global.

For this purpose the new global site www.worldicmanagement.com has been created. Along with it, Actcell is re-launcing www.icrating.com. Here you will find IC tools, cases, training material, an IC blog etc.

The content will be growing continuously, so don't forget to visit the site on a regular basis.
 

How far has your company really got in IC development this year?

Come join us! The website, www.icrating.com, is going to grow continuously. Especially we are focusing on adding content that can help practitioners in their work on developing organizational intellectual capital. On basically any level in a firm. In any type of company or organization. Non-dependent on organizational size. In any country.

Our plan is to share many of our experiences and learnings from working with intellectual capital since the mid 90ies. If you want to help us out in our cause, feel free to give suggestions and comment on our blogs, tools and other downloads. Perhaps you even want to join us as a blogger? Or you may want to become a partner in the intellectual partner community? Let us know and we will guide you.

This week we added part 2 in the whitepaper section. Also, we added a second tool for measuring IC. Both existing tools on the site are very simple and the purpose is to start giving you a flavor of how to measure IC and get started with intellectual capital management (ICM). More is to come later on. There is also a basic IC training course that you should check out, and the story section is growing. Why don’t you share your own IC stories with us? Send them to us and we will help you publish them on the site.

Or you can sign up to our sister site www.icknowledgecenter.com and start publishing your own work without anybody chaperoning you.

If you want high level professional advice in ICM, visit our global homepage www.worldicmanagement.com.

We are looking forward to sharing and interacting!
 

If you want to learn something new, what is your primary information source? Recently I was looking for an advice on purchasing a new HDD recorder, and found the best solution within 10 minutes. How?

From Twitter. As a relatively beginner user of Twitter, I posted a tweet (actually responded to the tweet which one of my followers posted) saying "I need to buy a new HDD recorder. Which brand should I consider?" And 10 minutes later, I was convinced with purchasing one of the brands that several people recommended me, with a good reason. 

Such new media have changed the consumers' and even business' behaviors dramatically. Person that uses a powerful SNS (the term already sounds a bit obsolete) is becoming a public entity in a sense, whereas companies and organizations that used to be more public entities than individuals seem to close doors and lock themselves in under the names of compliance and governance. Relational capital (such as customers, suppliers and business partners) of an enterprise used to be more static before Web 2.0, but now companies really need to consider the public or literally "the society" including anonymous consumers and people linked to each employee for instance, as a more important stakeholder. After all, I became a potential "customer" of that HDD recorder maker because an anonymous twitter community recommended me, without the maker's awareness.  How do you measure and manage such "stakeholder"? 

Many books have been written about Intellectual Capital and related topics. However, I have a feeling that most of the truly pioneering books were written in the 1990s. Until now that is. If you are interested in how to build companies in the 21st Century, I recommend you to read "Intangible Capital" by Mary Adams and Mike Oleksak.

Their book delivers many fresh insights, and in particular, practical tools and guidelines for how you can navigate your company successfully in the Knowledge Economy.

You can read more about it here: http://bit.ly/dgNiHi