This document discusses how corporate value is increasingly intangible, consisting of things like intellectual property, customer relationships, and organizational processes rather than physical assets. It notes that over half of S&P 500 market capitalization and mergers and acquisitions value comes from intangible assets. The document outlines approaches to identifying, measuring, and improving key intangible assets to increase a company's value. These include developing visualizations of intangible assets, using multiple metrics to assess performance, and addressing gaps between a company's intangible capital and its valuation multiples.
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Exit Planners Guide to Building Corporate Value through Intangible Capital
1. The Exit Planner’s Guide to
Building Corporate Value
How to become
an intangible
capitalist
Mary Adams
I-Capital Advisors
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2. Corporate value is increasingly
intangible
Components of S&P 500® Market Capitalization
14,000
Market Premium
12,000
Intangible Book Value
Tangible Book Value
10,000
8,000
S&P 500 Market Cap ($ billions)
6,000
4,000
2,000
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Research: Ned Davis
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3. This change touches all sectors
Intangible Value as a % of Total Market Capitalization
by Sector
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4. A similar breakdown in mergers
Tangible, 30%
Goodwill, 47%
Intangible, 23%
E&Y: Acquisition Accounting – What’s Next for You?
Global sample of 700+ mergers in 2007
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5. The gap is not “goodwill”
• This large amount of intangibles in
business is not the result of some abstract
market “feeling”
• It is the result of 30+ years of investment
in the knowledge infrastructure of
American corporations (people,
processes, info tech, networks)
• Annual investment in knowledge
intangibles now exceeds tangible
investment….
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6. U.S. corporate investments - 2007
Tangible $1.2
trillion, 43%
Intangible $1.6
trillion, 57%
(includes software, R&D,
advertising and training)
Business Week, October 29, 2009 (using unpublished data from Corrado, Hulten and Sichel)
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8. IC approaches to increasing value
1. Identify key intangibles
one day
2. Describe/measure them
one week to two months
3. Improve performance and value
six months to six years
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9. 1. Identify
• Take inventory for
each category
• Pay special
attention to
structural capital
• Create
visualization of
how they fit
together from “you can
grow like Google”
on YouTube
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10. …more
Reverse Chinese
visualizations Global customers
Manuf
Skills
Engineering motorcycle
industry
Modular designs
PRES Japanese
Motorcycle
manufacturers Just-in-time sourcing
STRATEGY HIRING
Entrepreneurial culture Financing
TACTICAL
BIZ DEV VP OP Laissez faire policy
Enterprise Wireless
FORECAST PROCESS E-Learning
E-Business
FINANCE End User Consulting Portals
Knowledge Management
Intranets
Events Process Modeling
Business Process Reengineering
Vendor Workflow
Consulting
Document Management
Imaging
Text Retrieval
Research
Emerging Introduction Maturity Decline
Technology Product Life Cycle
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11. 2. Measure (why bother?)
PwC provided different reports to two groups of analysts:
1. Financial statements, narrative, a few key metrics and
extensive quantified nonfinancial data [full Coloplast annual
report]
2. Stripped out quantified nonfinancial data [resulting report still
similar to/better than market norm]
Very different results:
1. 60% of analysts recommended “buy”
earnings estimate lower but more consistent
2. 80% recommended “sell”
earnings estimate higher
Source: http://corporatereporting.com/benefits-reporting.html
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13. What to measure in private co’s
• Human Capital
employees, management, succession
• Relationship Capital
customer base, sales and marketing, non-
customer relationships, brand(s)
• Structural Capital
processes, systems, intellectual property
• Strategic Capital
business model, external conditions
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14. 3. Value challenge
Companies in my industry
trade at 2-8 times EBITDA…
that means my company is
worth 8 times EBITDA
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15. Value map
1. Assess how the company compares with
its peers for each IC factor (below,
average, above) ideally using
stakeholder interviews
2. Look at expected value ranges in peer
group (below, average, above)
3. Highlight the gaps and opportunities
4. Develop and execute value building plan
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16. Map multiples against IC
Best
8x
Average
4x
Low
2x
Human Structural Relationship Strategic
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17. Examples of increased value
• Increased growth and innovation
High-end consulting firm doubled in size
• Optimized performance
Healthcare product revenues grew with lower
headcount investment
• Higher valuations
Tech firm sold at a premium to market
• Great reputation
Engineering firm doubled key hourly rates
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18. Resources
Slides at slideshare.com/maryadamsica
Newsletter: Management 2.0 last Tues of month
Book: www.intangiblecapitalbook.com
Community: www.icknowledgecenter.com
Blog: www.smartercompaniesblog.com
Mary Adams, 781-729-9650
adams@i-capitaladvisors.com
Twitter: maryadamsica
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