HMIC5503-Managing Intellectual Capital

This course was designed to enable the learners to understand the contemporary concept of intellectual capital and open our eyes to the enormous opportunists intellectual capital holds for the organization and how the academic institutions can leverage on intellectual capital and create a competitive edge for themselves in the ever widening field of educational industry.

The facilitator for this course is:

Dr.R.Shriram, Director – Faculty Training Academy and Professor – Department of Computer Science and Engineering, B.S. Abdur Rahman University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

The objectives for the course are as stated below: 

At the end of the course, you should be able to explain:

1. How IC has enhanced corporate competitiveness as a result of the integration of Information and communication technology (ICT) into business practices
2. The methods and approaches related to management and measurement of knowledge-based assets
3. The different elements of intellectual capital and how value can be derived from  them
4. The  key points of various intellectual capital, intangible assets and management approaches that contributes in the success of knowledge management initiatives and strategies
5. The role of educational institutions in fostering the thinking process.

 

Pre-HMID5503 Thoughts

When this course started, I was a total novice in the area of intellectual capital. The only related term that I was used to was the term ‘human resources’ which is a general term to depict the personnel department in many organizations today even when most of them to do not understand the concept of human capital. For us in the developing countries, these change in designation are due more to the current fad rather than an understanding of the modern concept of human capital.