Institute Background

The International Intangible Management Standards Institute was the first organization to systematically, scientifically, and comprehensively identify, classify, financially value and report the financial value of productivity, effectiveness, sustainability, and immediate performance improvements related to core value creation (intangibles such as knowledge, collaboration, and leverage), and the impacts of a change in costs on productivity and revenue. The Institute offers 3 levels of certification, 5 professional membership levels, more than 40 international intangible standards, and 3 software tools to assist members practically apply international intangible standards through the disciplines of intangible intelligence and intangible management. The Institute represents more than 1500 members from 60 countries and provides members with the Intangible Intelligence ToolBox so they can quickly and easily financially benchmark the impact of changes in knowledge, collaboration, and leverage on performance improvement, productivity, cost effectiveness, ROI, and profitability.


International intangible standards were first brought to public attention through the book Intangible Management: Tools for Solving the Accounting and Management Crisis (Standfield, K., Academic Press, 2002). This book won the RR Hawkins Award for exemplary scholarship from the Association of American Publishers and the joint winner of the best Business, Accounting, and Management text in the US in that year. The books contents can be viewed online at: [www.amazon.ca]

RR Hawkins Award: http://www.mnstate.edu/schwartz/aap.html


Intangible Finance Standards: Advances in Fundamental Analysis and Technical Analysis (Standfield, K., Academic Press, 2005) [www.amazon.ca]