Does your organization have "intellectual assets"?
Regardless of what your organization does – whether it is a
service-based business, or in the manufacturing sector, whether it
is driven by cloud-based software or bricks-and-mortar locations,
whether it is a multinational or a local start-up – chances
are good that you can start to list the intellectual capital that
has value in your organization. What do we mean by
"intellectual assets"? There are many definitions, but
one broad definition is simply "knowledge that has value in
your organization", and it can encompass:
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Human know-how and intellectual capital – the unwritten
expertise, experience, concepts and technical knowledge that
employees have in their heads; and
