Stewardship, oversight, and management of a company’s intangible assets can be the difference between (a.) looking out ahead, and (b.) looking through a rearview mirror!
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Handing Off More Secure, Valuable, and Defensible Trade Secrets…
Even though most companies do not have formal R&D units, many have vast amounts of proprietary know how that facilitate and enhance services and/or products that deliver competitive advantages, goodwill, reputation, revenue, etc.
Franchise Operations: Are They Driven By Intellectual Property or Intangible Assets…?
Franchises’ are not so much driven (economically, competitively) by intellectual property as they are driven by intangible assets!
Five Reasons Why Your Company Should Continue To Overlook, Neglect, and Dismiss It’s Intangible Assets!
Without a clearer picture of how intangible assets develop and flow within a company and contribute to profitability and deliver ‘return on investment’, business decision makers continue to show reluctance to devote time and resources to learning about – trying to harness those assets.
The ‘Insider Threat’ – Who’s Your Most Successful Competitor…?
Continuing to rely on snap-shot-in-time honesty-integrity types of pre-employment screening assessments that are oriented more toward projecting an employees’ proclivity for stealing tangible-physical assets, i.e., desk staplers rather than ulta valuable intangible assets is unacceptable.
‘Insiders’ and the ’20 – 60 – 20′ Rule…
Sometimes, when we prick the sometimes very thin social-psychological veener of people we work with we may find inherently dishonest and unethical individuals, possessing mis-guided, or little, if any sense of integrity or loyalty with respect to protecting proprietary information, trade secrets, and IP.