Weightless Wealth: find your real value in a future of intangible assets

By Daniel Andriessen and Rene Tissen

Weightless Wealth provides you with the practical tools to identify, assess and evaluate these intangible assets, and helps you to leverage them to their full potential, creating a high-growth,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0273649221
• ISBN13: 9780273649229
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Financial Times Management
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

An outstanding approach on managing intangible assets

As a full time practitioner and researcher on Intellectual Capital Management since the beginning of the 90's, I am always looking for new useful concepts, methodologies and tools on managing intangible assets. This time in Weightless Wealth of Andriessen and Tissen I have found something unique that breaks the conventional thinking: a new practical method that leads to better strategic decisions focusing on core competencies, as the foundations of present and above all future value creation and as the unique bundle of intangible assets.A took kit the "Value Explorer" guides the reader through the practical applications of the method. I would like to say, that my experience on the model ICBS (Intellectual Capital Benchmarking System), that follows a similar way, guarantees the effectiveness of this new alternative approach. Weightless Wealth is a well-written book, easy to read, enjoyable and engaging from start to finish.

Most valuable IC exploration and assessment

"Weightless Wealth is a very important contribution to the development of work on Intellectual Capital. It reviews the historical development of IC as well as addresses how to leverage the potential of your intangibles, competences and talents. It has a very interesting appendix called the Value Explorer Toolkit. It shows how to identify core competences and then calculate the value contribution of these competences. This will give a model and fundamental platform for identifying wealth creating dimensions and sustainable shareholder value cultivation."Leif Edvinsson, the world's first corporate director of IC at Skandia, now associate professor of IC at the University of Lund

A well-written and engaging book...

Finding a workable and practical means of linking the core competence approach to business management with financial measures has been the goal of many researchers. In Weightless Wealth, Andriessen and Tissen suggest an approach and illustrate it with the easily-followed example of a toy manufacturer which runs through the book. Andriessen and Tissen provide practical advice on how to define and test company competencies and link them to the basic intangible assets that underlies them. Theirtoolkit, the Value Explorer, is described in the last part of the book and guides the reader through their suggested process. Their linkage of competencies to financial results and the future earning power of the company is new and provides an alternative perspective for managers faced with critical strategic decisions. This is of special importance in a world in which the value of businesses by traditional means has become very difficult. Weightless Wealth is a well-written book, easy to read and engaging from start to finish.

Weightless Wealth is a Heavy Hitter!

As a researcher in the field of intellectual capital, I am keen on examining various conceptualizations of managing the intangible knowledge assets of firms. This book provides a refreshing perspective on this matter. It is both an easy read and comprehensive enough to provide the reader with a firm understanding of the current management theories, concepts and measurement approaches in the field. I encourage anyone interested in the management of organizational knowledge (both practitioner and academic) to pick up a copy and enjoy.