The knowledge a person gains through experience and continuous learning is very important for both the individual and the organization that leverages this knowledge. This knowledge embodied in individuals, also referred to as organizational capital, plays a vital role in both the creation of shareholder value and the enablement of an organization to reach its strategic goals. The awareness of this importance has generated an impetus among firms to come up with various systems and solutions to properly manage the knowledge thus acquired by their employees. The issues around the deployment of knowledge within organizations also form part of the general body of knowledge known as intellectual capital. Given this close interlinkage between Intellectual capital and Knowledge Management, it is worth studying how the organizational benefits from this interlinkage can be achieved in the best possible way. The book Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management explains the interlinkage between IC and KM. The book further explains how the company can measure the impact of knowledge management effectiveness to benefit better from this type of initiatives. The book also deals with how knowledge transfer should take place within and between organizations during mergers and acquisitions— knowledge transfer and related synergies being the main motive behind these mergers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Goran Roos
Goran Roos is the founder of Intellectual Capital Services Ltd., London, a leading think tank in the area of methodologies for the identification, management and measurement of intangibles, and the Co-founder of Asset Economics LLP., New York. He is also co-founder of the Melbourne-based joint venture "Emergent Thinking Ltd.", with the De Bono Institute on Strategic Preparedness and Strategy from within and the Spanish Strategy Consulting firm B+I Strategy Sarl. Goran is visiting professor of Intangible Asset Management and Performance Measurement at the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield University, visiting lecturing professor in Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Strategy at the Helsinki School of Economics/JOKO, and visiting Intellectual Capital at Melbourne Business School, Mt. Eliza Centre for Executive Education. He was for many years part-time Industrial Professor of Strategy and Internationalization at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo. He has been a visiting Research Associate in technology-based business development at the Institute for Policy Science located at the University of Saitama Campus Kita-Urawa, Japan and in Biotechnology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala and in Intellectual Capital at Henley Management College. Goran is the one of the founders of modern intellectual capital science and world expert in this field. Goran had also worked as a consultant in most OECD countries and has served in management positions in several European and US-based corporations. He is the author and co-author of numerous books and articles on Intellectual Capital and Strategy. Goran was named one of the 13 most influential thinkers for the 21st Century by the Spanish Business Journal Direccion Y Progreso No. 167 in 1999.
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