Our vision is simultaneous manufacturing, to make the pager even as the customer talks. Additional information about Motorola is available here . Hughes Space and Communications Hughes, the world s leading maker of commercial communications satellites that are made to order, is building its own knowledge highway so that it can leverage what we learn so we can do the job better and faster next time. This database is part of the firms efforts to make its intellectual capital more accessible, perhaps through knowledge maps that show where the knowledge of the enterprise is located. People think in terms of stories, not facts.
Intellectual capital is the raw material from which financial results are made.
Human capital matters because it is the source of innovation and renewal, whether from brainstorms in a lab or new leads in a sales rep s little black book. But growth in human capital through hiring, training, and education is bootless if it cannot be exploited. It can amplify the value of human capital, marshaling the resources of the corporation to support a new idea. One approach to building structural intellectual capital is to first identify techniques and technologies that can be transplanted anywhere and then putting those techniques into software. The company has used similar knowledge-transfer strategies in other projects.