Posts Tagged ‘intellectual capital’

Video: Shopping Smart, Shopping Green

Appealing to the soccer mom and the penny-pinching couple alike, shopping in the bulk foods aisle has quickly become one of 2010’s hottest trends, according to the Wall Street Journal.

World Wide Working: CoWorking & Collaboration

With the rise in Independent Professionals and Freelancers comes the rise of the CoWorking movement. Many panels and blog posts have been done on the state of co-working for the individual and how it affects the future of Work.

The Monetization of Social Capitalism

This video introduces the generalized algorithm that will ultimately control the value game. This video identifies what Social Entrepreneurs will do to create value which will eventually be stored and exchanged with a Social Currency.

Bizarro Capitalism

After all, every living person is allocated a certain amount of time on Bizarro World. Time is a scarce resource whose value is determined by supply and demand. Time is not easily forged, debased, or counterfeited. It makes for a perfect Bizarro currency. Of Course the Bizarro Currency would be called the Rallod (Dollar spelled backwards).

The Knowledge Inventory: You Cannot Make A Bet Without Odds

The knowledge inventory is the most important part of Social Capitalism. It is also the only piece that will require everyone to think substantially differently about how we are organized in communities. Once we can get over that hurdle – it’s smooth sailing into the next economic paradigm.

Intangible Capital is the New Factory

The core of the tangible economy is the factory. Simply put, a factory is a building where production equipment converts raw material into finished goods. Companies make their money by selling these finished goods. The story of the tangible economy is the story of organizing and running these factories.The modern …

Convergence Toward the Knowledge Inventory

The Knowledge inventory will become the most important element of Social Capitalism. Today, knowledge is largely sequestered behind the walls of corporation in the form of titles, skill codes, resumes, job descriptions, certifications, and college degrees. In order to predict the future, we point to the things that we have done in the past.

Stock Harmony; An Exchange for Social Value

So this is what makes Stock Harmony interesting. The successful “next currency” will be the one which best represents human productivity. Only then will someone be willing to trade their productivity for that of another person using a currency note as an exchange mechanism. This is where other alternate currencies fall apart and where Stock Harmony shows greater strength.

IP and IC — Not The Same Thing?

Intellectual property (IP) is a term that is usually used to refer to specific types of structural capital that enjoy special legal status. These include patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Each of these categories has a specific body of law associated with it. Patents have to be approved by …

The Culture of Data

Each stage of transformation along the chain reaction from “data” to “culture” is an opportunity for both great value creation AND astonishing corruption.