Safeguarding Intangible Assets

Introduction

Michael D. Moberly

In no other arena of economic and social relations has the statement “knowledge is power” proven more true than in today’s knowledge-based global economies wherein business operations are increasingly dominated by the creation, utilization, and conversion of intangible assets. Monitoring value, materiality, and risk to intangible assets throughout their functionality life cycle is now a managerial requisite!

How It All Began

I can genuinely say that my 25 years’ of research, work, and consulting on a broad cross-section of matters related to identifying, safeguarding, and managing intangible assets evolved more as an epiphany. The epiphany occurred in the late 1990s while I was on the faculty at Southern Illinois ...