Intellectual Capital Management

Leading the transformation to a knowledge society by preaching the value of intellectual capital management and practicing it together

Intellectual capital is the source of future value that creates corporate value.

We see a company as a tree, and the roots of the tree as invisible values, including human capital. Our goal is to create a rich ecosystem (=Willpower Forest) where each tree gathers and strong wills resonate with each other, transcending the boundaries of wisdom. Good trees come from good roots. ICMG Group is a future co-creation company that accelerates future co-creation by bringing together leaders with a “Forest” mindset and Willpower to connect with each other and create a rich soil (Foundation) together.

Intellectual Capital Management Model

Intellectual capital management is a management model that utilizes intellectual capital (the source of value creation) to achieve sustainable growth and enhance corporate value by implementing corporate transformation (CX: Corporate Transformation) with the purpose of realizing the company's purpose (reason for existence).

We liken corporate activities to the ecosystem of a tree. By visualizing and nurturing the “intellectual capital roots”, creating and implementing the “value creation process trunk,” and through these efforts, generating non-financial and financial value and outcomes (“fruits”),
we aim to bring impact to the ecosystem, coexist with it, and achieve sustainable development alongside society—this is the concept of “purpose.”

By identifying and utilizing our company's “intellectual capital” and its root source, “human capital,” we practice value creation.

We conduct our business with the principle that “all value is created from intellectual capital centered on people” as the foundation of our management. Intellectual capital is a form of capital that does not directly appear on the balance sheet but generates value. We believe that enhancing intellectual capital and linking it to results is crucial for achieving sustainable growth, enhancing corporate value, and realizing our purpose, and we are putting this into practice.

By strategically incorporating and combining external “intellectual capital” from venture companies, large corporations, and other sources, we can put value creation into practice.

Value creation limited to a company's own intellectual capital has its limits. The complexity and changeability of the social environment, the rapid pace of technological development, and the diversification of value standards all require companies to adopt new approaches to value creation. It is also becoming increasingly important to leverage the intellectual capital cultivated by other companies, while centering on the intellectual capital that the company itself possesses.

Willpower Forest Ecosystem

Community by Future Center

Forming the "Forest of Willpower" Community

We build communities where leaders across organizations and regions gather, connect, and co-create. Co-creation/hands-on programs that transform societies and corporations. Management/business/HR leaders of major corporations, ventures, local companies, and social entrepreneurs create new social values together.

Leadership Forest

Value Creation from Human Capital

We will create true leaders that look beyond corporate growth/development to deliver true value to society. Refining human wisdom, conviction, and will, and investing in the execution of purpose, vision, and value creation. We will commit further to global programs to co-create social values from a wider perspective and continue to produce output that offers value.

Digital Forest

Inventing a Collaborative Society of Human and Digital Technology

ICMG Digital gathers the strengths of the ICMG Group, such as digital solutions, design, and engineering, and will oversee entire processes from the formulation of purpose, vision, and management strategies to their execution and implementation, offering new and innovative values to all.

Social Forest

Creation of a New Social Ecosystem

Solving local social issues at deeper levels. The Mt.Fuji Future Center was established in 2024 in partnership with Yamanashi Prefecture, as a place where circular local economy models are created. Co-creation across industry, government, and academia, will lead to amplification of a more sustainable and intrinsic social implementation.

Global Ecosystem Forest

Co-creation through ecosystem construction and implementation

Supporting entrepreneurs who are creating the next society and driving corporate transformation (CX) in large companies, while supporting the accelerated growth of both. Going beyond simply creating strategies, we organically connect determined leaders and stakeholders and work together with them through to implementation. Strategically leveraging Asia, including Singapore, which is a hub for social issue-solving startups, to create meaningful change for the world.

Investment Forest

Co-creation through socially-minded investment

The ICMG Group’s cumulativefunds have exceeded 10B yen and empowered communities, co-created with Japanese corporations, andbuilt startup ecosystems through investments. We will expand the stage further from Southeast Asia and India and go beyond to the global south including the Middle East and Africa, creating co-creation opportunities between the next unicorn companies and Japanese corporations.

Green Forest

Behavioral Innovation for a Decarbonized Society

A new partnership has been formed with Aircapture, a leader in Direct Air Capture technology (DAC) to halt the rapid progress of global boiling. We will expand our partnerships at home and abroad, with industries, governments, and academics, to resolve these difficult issues facing mankind, with the goal of recovering 60,000 tons/year of CO2 by 2030 and achieving social implementation of more than 10 negative emission projects between 2024 and 2026.

Publications

ICMG Group's intellectual capital, and the value creation stories from it