The Seven Hallmarks of Compelling Intellectual Capital

Thought leadership marketing is the art of promoting novel, practical and proven answers to complex or seemingly intractable business issues. Done right, it can create powerful differentiation, renew a firm's intellectual assets and energy, and attract new employees. Done wrong, it can give a firm an image of superficiality and lack of originality, and it can squander the millions the firm spends to bring its ideas and work to market.

Thought leadership marketing "done right" demonstrates the firm's unique insights into the problem at hand, its experience in solving the problem with other clients, the results from those experiences, and the firm's approach to doing the work. In our experience, the potency of thought leadership marketing depends upon seven key criteria: novelty, focus, relevance, validity, practicality, rigor and clarity.

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