Michael D. Moberly January 21, 2016 ‘A business blog where attention span really matters’!
When-where ever there is institutionalized indifference about the treatment of IA’s (intangible assets) at the hands of organization-company boards, management teams, legal, security, marketing, and accounting, etc., there will be a comparable stifling of curiosity for pursuing the actual contributory role and value of IA’s apart from the growing fiduciary responsibility to engage IA’s beyond the singular catchall of goodwill as described in Stone v. Ritter, 911 A.2d 362 (Del. Supr. 2006).
Yes, it remains quite true, IA’s are seldom, if ever, reported on company balance sheets or financial statements, a reality which I suspect will change in the not too distant future. In large part, the change away from (IA) indifference and dismissiveness to acknowledgment and engagement will be influenced (also) by necessity, e.g.,…
- to provide more complete portraits of organization value, competitiveness, sustainability, and performance.
- otherwise, organizations will be left unnecessarily holding far too many unknowns, uncertainties, and risks.
Not being trained in organizational psychology per se, it would be a reach to state with absolute certainty why, how, or the depth of (organization) ‘IA deniers’. As an intangible asset strategist and risk specialist, experience rather clearly suggests however, that the rigid inflexibility I encounter with ‘IA deniers’ will be challenged as IA intensive – dependent organizations become the norm, coupled with the managerial requisite for…
- making consistently effective decisions whenever, wherever, and however IA’s are in play which compliments organizations interest in attracting go fast, go hard, go global management teams.
Mr. Moberly is an intangible asset strategist and risk specialist and author of ‘Safeguarding Intangible Assets’ published by Elsevier in 2014, m.moberly@kpstrat.com View Mr. Moberly’s videos on YouTube at ‘safeguarding intangible assets’ or his CNN and CNBC videos at his webpage http://kpstrat.com
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