<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Master the first comprehensive, credible framework for measuring HR's value and the quality of its talent acquisition/management efforts! Reflecting their immense experience leading talent management and consulting on enterprise talent strategy, Linda Brenner and Tom McGuire introduce a powerful new metric: the Intellectual Capital Index (ICI). Built on extensive financial analysis of Fortune® 500 companies, ICI helps you rigorously identify specific areas of intellectual capital that drive the most value in your company, and refocus HR accordingly. Using it, you can:</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">More effectively quantify the return on your human capital investments</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Measure the quality and value of your most important talent</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Gain a deeper understanding of the drivers of value in their organization</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Recognize the drivers of intellectual capital within their companies</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Measure and improve talent quality: your most important talent metric</DIV> </LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Brenner and McGuire help you finally overcome long-time controversies and obstacles to valuing talent. Using accepted financial techniques, you'll walk through:</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Identifying which people and roles are producing disproportionate value</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Determining the true asset of value of talent you don't "own"</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Gaining deeper insight into the "active" and "inert" components of intellectual capital</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Organizing structures and business processes to activate your talent and liberate latent value</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Choosing and applying the most effective talent metrics</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Refocusing HR on the talent issues, skills, and competencies that matter most</DIV> </LI> </UL> <B> <I> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Talent Valuation</B> </I> offers indispensable tools and insights for C-level executives, HR leaders, strategists, investors, analysts, researchers, students – and anyone concerned with measuring, optimizing, and communicating the business value of talent.</P>