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developing intangible assets – managing others’ creativity JC Spender Cranfield SOM. find, measure, control, re-allocate. knowledge management = dream of controlling the intangible resources and so achieving total control
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developing intangible assets – managing others’ creativity JC Spender Cranfield SOM Cranfield Masterclass
find, measure, control, re-allocate • knowledge management = dream of controlling the intangible resources and so achieving total control • KIFs, learning organizations, Tobin’s Q - mkt/book - collapse of accounting ? • hedge funds, private capital, eco-economics and sustainability • intellectual capital ? human, structural, and social • metrics ? contextual and contingent SO … • failure of rational decision-making • dependence on the creativity of our people • managerial role ? Cranfield Masterclass
metrics ? • what to model against - targets, competitors, optimizing model, or ? • contextual possibilities ? i.e. customers, stakeholders, strategic positioning, CSR • ‘success map’ dimensions – Balanced Scorecard, Miles & Snow, OSCI, business risk, any single model ? • virtual company vs real company • place and effect of the measurement tool • managing, creating by measuring • how useful is this whole idea ? dynamic capabilities ? Cranfield Masterclass
complementing rationality certainty-based analysis uncertainty-based practices imagination agency empowerment delegation causal models rationality purposive action real situations - world of socio-economic practice Cranfield Masterclass
organizational practice • Practice 1: purposive - rational, planned, mechanical but only when the situation is fully known - otherwise: • Practice 2: ‘work-arounds’, absence of knowledge • imaginative, exploratory • discovered constraints to the imagination, agency Cranfield Masterclass
constraints customer response budget technological limits of plant market position metrics as constraints - but to whose imagination ? Cranfield Masterclass
collaborative agentic practice • workaround - getting it done and there’s more to it: • transformation of the agent/s • re-construction of firm’s context i.e. what is known • segue to leadership, sense of belonging, community, CoPs, networks of trust, recognition Cranfield Masterclass
leadership business model business goal causal models rationality direction control agency empowerment emancipation trust real situations - world of practice seeing pre-existing conditions as externally determined tangible and intangible resources guiding & re-constructing the firm’s constraints dynamic capabilities > Δ resources Cranfield Masterclass
theorizing business as a managed collaborative art form • and the business model as its performance • contingent viability as the only metric engagement - imagination - exploration - constraints details, details, details - work, work, work Cranfield Masterclass