HR Portals and HR Metrics for Intellectual Capital Development

摘要

Intellectual capital is nowadays considered a key issue when analysing critical determinants to company performance. It represents one of the main and difficult to imitate source for sustainable competitive advantage and it helps organizations, which can create, maintain, measure and leverage it, generate a superior performance. Companies, according to their strategic needs, generate a unique mix of human, social and organizational capital and exploit it to achieve their strategy. This paper intends to explore how information technology, and in particular HR portals, could help the organization to really be able to create a superior competitive advantage by leveraging its intangible assets coherently with its strategy. In addition, the paper provides a deep analysis of HR portals implementation benefits, focusing on their contribute at measuring and aligning intellectual capital to company strategy.