The Future of Intellectual Capital?

A World Tour

My Tour

• June 29 to December 12, 2012

• 14 Different Countries (Regions)

– Australia, Hong Kong, Macau, China, Japan, Sweden, Finland, The Netherlands, Germany, USA, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland and Russia.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

A different approach to measuring IC

Journal of Intellectual Capital 2009, Vol. 10 No. 2

Hong Kong

• What does Intellectual Capital mean?

Hong Kong

• Master of Science in Knowledge Management

ISE5601Managing and Measuring

Intellectual Capital

Japan - Kobe University

Intellectual Capital: Past, present and future.

Japan – Accounting for IC

Is this a good or bad number?

What does 42 mean?

What does 42 mean?

What does 42 mean?

What does 42 mean?

• ASCII Number for the:

Wildcard character – can mean anything

Sweden & Finland

Karl-Erik Sveiby

Leif Edvinsson

Sweden & Finland

Five values

• Customer

• Employee

• Structural (economic)

• Environment

• Society

Bjorn Molin

Sweden & Finland

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Therefore my strategy is Culture”

Bjorn Molin

Heidelberg and The Intellectual Capital Church

“... I find [IC] not being practiced by managers

far as much as it’s being preached by us academics…”

IC at a crossroads of relevance

Journal of Intellectual Capital (2004) Vol 5, No 2

Intellectual Capital Reporting: RIP?(Rest in Peace)

IC and Capital Markets?

The motivation for reporting?

Reinforcing the message of Culture

Change the Culture of the Industrial Revolution?

USA

Collaborative Advantage

Vs.

Competitive Advantage

Debra Amidon

USA

smarter-companies.com

Mary Adams

How do we see (interpret) IC?

Italy - Integrating IC into <IR>

• World Intellectual Capital Initiative

• <IR> as a way forward?

• Includes IC and other forms of Capital

• A backdoor to getting IC recognised

Stefano Zambon

Building better mousetraps (Frameworks)?

Third stage of IC research?

...based on a critical and performative analysis of IC practices in action.

Guthrie, Ricceri, & Dumay (2012)

British Accounting Review, Vol 44 No 2 pp. 68-92

The way forward

Journal of Intellectual Capital 2013, Vol 14 No 1 pp. 5-9

Become IC Missionaries

Missionem - “act of sending”.

Fourth stage IC Eco-systems

Let’s not become the Canary in the Coal Mine