Posted by Rob Patzig on February 28, 1998 at 20:12:01:

In Reply to: Re: Can measuring IC thwart KM initiatives? posted by Yogesh Malhotra on February 28, 1998 at 01:35:26:

Yogesh,

From your response, then, it would appear that quantitative measures
of intellectual capital should be measurements of an organization's capacity
for innovation, not a measurement of the current value of its intellectual
properties.

If this is the case, then I think there is little chance of the situation
I hypothesized about in my posting.  But I sense that what many company's
want to do today is to assign a dollar value to their intellectual properties,
whether these exist in product lifecycles, their customer base, or their
people.  In such cases, it still seems all too likely that the measurement
of IC would have a stultifying effect on the KM processes as they would
are unlikely to be forward looking.

What you wrote about reference disciplines makes me wonder if my concern
is the result of KM still being in its infancy.  Reliable standards
are the result of experimentation.  I've simply theorized one of the
methods of measurements that ought to be avoided.

 

 

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