Posted by Sogo Bolumole on September 05, 1999 at 05:13:23:

In Reply to: Re: Corpotate Knowledge/Intellectual Capital Measurement posted by Reilly Atkinson on September 03, 1999 at 01:28:22:

Hi,
In you post, you said -
>On the otherhand, an assessment of the intellectual skills and knowledge required for some future period are much harder to estimate; in fact, we do not know now how to make such estimates.

I have no plans at the moment to assess the IC requirements for some future period. I am (currently) limited to assessing an organisations current IC possesion at any given time. A periodical assessment of IC will give an idea of the rate of increase or decrease. this will inturn give organisations the ability to figure out the IC requirement to meet their strategic goals.

>Perhaps there are other ways to get at IC, but I can't think of any off hand. I've seen mention of IC as a component of stock value -- difference between book value and market cap,

That is the method currently used to measure IC where it is called GoodWill (even though it has the same definiation as IC). This so called measurement claims that once the book value has been accounted for, what ever is left is the value of an organisations IC. This has no bearing on the actual store of IC possessed by the organisation.

>If you go for that one, well I've got a bridge or two to sell you.

What bridges?

>The bottom line as I see it is that a good characterization of IC is a most formidable intellectual challenge, the solution of which will probably result in a Nobel Prize.

And who said I don't want to win a Nobel Prize.

Regards
Sogo

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