CEO Insider

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In the global digital 24/7 marketplace of today, reputation is all powerful yet as fragile as a flower.

Reputation 117

Reputation Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Planning 117

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. Most intangible assets are real but invisible, and the most important invisible ability is the ability (or, perhaps better said, the probability) to collaborate. So, the question is: What are the most critical intangible assets in your company?

Intangible Assets 15

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

However, there is an intangible asset that is very difficult to quantify — but without it you cannot ultimately succeed. This asset is, of course, alignment. Leaders who jump from highway to highway, seemingly without rationale, are leaders who lose the power of an organization primed and focused on achieving results.

Agility 62

Agility P&L Intangible Assets Team 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

However, digital companies often have assets that are intangible in nature, and many have ecosystems that extend beyond the company’s boundaries. Consider Amazon’s Buttons and Alexa powered Echo , Uber’ cars, and Airbnb’s residential properties, for example.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

An informed shareholder, who looks beyond earnings numbers and analyzes the company’s intangible assets, would notice that the firm has mortgaged its future. Gathering information on a firm’s intangible assets is costly, and so not worth doing if you own only a tiny bit of stock in a company.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The Balanced Scorecard's primary form of novelty is that it takes into account the intangible assets that are so crucial for information-age companies. Created by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in the 1990s, this system for assessing organizational performance builds on, but goes way beyond, traditional accounting methods.

Creative Accounting 15

Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The good news is that we see a trend of dynamic young businesses beginning to realize that the pattern-detection and extrapolative powers of the digital (and, in many cases, physical) infrastructures that they have been building and refining can be repurposed from Main Street applications to Wall Street.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8