Blog about China 2009 no. 5

What is really the difference between the Professor Chen Yu invention: “Consumption Capital”, and what we in the Intellectual Capital world like to refer to as Customer Capital?



This is not all that easy to answer. After two conferences on the Consumption Capital topic in Beijing, I am still confused.



One of multiple possible answers… Continue

Blog about China 2009 no. 4

I just got word from my friend in intangibles, Jonathan Low. Like me, he was in Beijing last month (read Aug. 2009) as a speaker. I think it is safe to say that he also thought that some questions remained unanswered with regards to the Chinese “innovation” Consumption Capital.

Today he pointed to this… Continue

Blog about China 2009 no. 3

A couple of weeks ago (read Aug. 2009) I asked if Beijing was ready for IC. In short, the answer is:

I am not sure.



Three cons:

1) The conference was called “The first global intellectual capital summit”. Actually, I think there has been a few…

2) It seemed like one of the conference purposes was to promote Prof. Chen Yu’s new economic theory “Consumption Capitalization”. It advocates the use of three capitals in today’s economy:… Continue

Blog about China 2009 no. 2

After a few years of IC work with our friends in Hong Kong, it is now time to move into the Mainland as well.



The conference this weekend (read August 2010) is expected to attract 200 business people from the Beijing area. And the list of speakers is quite distinguished (including myself…). CFO Think Tank is my session; a perfect opportunity to present the… Continue

Blog about China 2009 no. 1

Last month (read Feb. 2009) I was in Hong Kong, training Intellectual Capital consultants for the Hong Kong Government. They believe that the development of IC is the future for Hong Kong SME’s. Thus, the services of the IC consultants will be offered for free.



The rumor about this initiative is already spreading into… Continue

I just had a very interesting lunch. We discussed the core of the central wage negotiations between the unions and the employers' counterparts - that will be encompassing more people than ever this spring.



Is it not very old fashioned to define strict wages for huge clusters of people, solely dependent on some industry category that they were tagged with?





Without any concern of the quality of the job that they perform.

Without any recognition of them as…

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