The Areopa Group

ABOUT US

OUR MISSION
The Areopa Group's mission is to be leading edge knowledge & practice provider, in the field valuating the knowledge economy by monetizing the organization intellectual capital, risk management and managing organi­zational change and development with innovation as a driver.
We deliver com­pre­hensive services through people, processes and technology.
We are Customer Focused, Process Driven and dedicated to deliver results.

OUR STORY


In 1987, Areopa began as a change management company and started to shift its focus to knowledge management when our Founder and Chief Innovation Architect, Ludo Pyis, recognized the pressing need for tracking measures that capture the value of knowledge for companies.


Areopa operates worldwide to monetize the intangible assets of organizations and develop innovative solutions to ensure companies are supported through the growth process by facilitating learning in the managing, protecting, and monetizing of intellectual capital.

We work to empower our clients through our unique value-adding methodologies.


We work with you to capture, store, and make reusable your company's intellectual capital.

After years of research and development, Areopa created a system of valuing intangible assets linked to a company - making us the only experts in the world in this area. Areopa is disrupting the outdated models of the financial industry, bringing a fresh perspective on the ways that knowledge can be made quantifiable. Through the development of intellectual capital accounting, Areopa continues to show the world its new language of intellectual capital.

INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTING


Intellectual capital is considered an asset and can be broadly defined as the collection of all informational resources a company has at its disposal that can be used to drive profits, gain new customers, create new products, or otherwise improve the business.
It includes the sum of employee expertise, organizational processes, and other intangibles that contribute to a company's bottom line.


BENEFITS OF KNOWING YOUR INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL


The benefits of knowing your intellectual capital begins with Managing it, Protecting it, and Making it Reusable. Knowing its value leads to:


  • Developing added money streams
  • Selling or buying a company
  • Licensing a product
  • Selling an individual item, customer list, training materials, etc.
  • Merging with other companies
  • Getting a loan based on your IC

THE AREOPA

FOUR-LEAF MODEL


Intellectual capital = added value (minus) costs

 

Added value is measured based on the “added value creating phenomena” that can be found in the 15 areas of the “4 leaf model“ and will be divided into “present versus future “ and

“ tacit versus explicit “ .

THE  INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL (IC) PROCESS

STEP 1- PREPARE


THE AREOPA GROUP prepares by:


  • Building IC Inventory
  • Conducting a High-Level Estimation (HLE)
  • Conducting Innovative Due Diligence
  • Creating Management an Investment Plan
  • Preparing Funding Plan of Estimated Value





STEP 3- DELIVER & GROW


THE AREOPA GROUP

delivers and grows IC by:


  • Managing the growth & the use of IC assets
  • Controling innovation development
  • Driving, Creating and Combining to deliver additional value
  • Creating multiple money streams per IC asset

STEP 2- PROTECT


THE AREOPA GROUP protects knowledge by:


  • Ensuring Ownership by identifying key knowledge carriers
  • Safeguarding the knowledge through applied knowledge management
  • Protecting knowledge versus open innovation & liaison planning & management

STEP 4- ACCOUNT & AUDIT


THE AREOPA GROUP works with your organization to:


  • Prepare Areopa IC Accounting System



OUR BUSINESS MODEL


Areopa is unique in their organizational structure. 


We operate as a "Shamrock Organization" which is an output-based organization where customers drive the performance of Areopa. 


It is a revenue sharing model, where each and any party participating in the model, receives a portion of the revenue generated by a "Shamrocker" with its customer. 


A Shamrock Organization is a non-traditional organization that allows members to operate independently and is compensated based on members' actual performance.



The company works with over 450 "SAPs"

(Strategic Alliance Partners) and is active in five market segments on a worldwide level.



AREOPA MARKETS

  • Commercial 
  • Academic 
  • Social Economy
  • Intellectual Capital Centers
  • Knowledge Cities Development


OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM

RALPH PRUDENT

CEO & CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER

Ralph is a lawyer with international business experience and 20 years of results-oriented strategic and operational management in owner-managed SME and international corporations (asset management & insurance). He possesses broad functional experience in different company phases: start-up, growth, consolidation, crisis management, business development, brand building & market entry strategies Ralph has profound knowledge of CSR / ESG concepts.

MICHEL DEWOLFS

CO-CEO & INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

18 years experience in banking (Gemeentekrediet & ABN-AMRO). Michel has had assignments in several companies (DHL / Belgian Post – Certipost / BNP Parisbas / Belfius Insurance / M-Team ).

The common thread in these assignments were KPI’s / Digitization – e-sign / Quality / Problem Solving & Customer Service.

LUDO PYIS

CHIEF INNOVATION ARCHITECT

40 years of international experience in organization development (Hewlett Packard & Founder of Areopa) and  recognized leading expert within IC accounting with a focus on knowledge intensive industries.

Ludo brings significant value to the team through his valuation, financial modelling and consultancy expertise. 

The Areopa Group

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The content on this homepage serves exclusively to illustrate risks that are based on insufficient or missing management of the intellectual capital of a company or the possible value increases of a company through professional management and utilisation of previously unidentified intellectual capital in the company, which is decisive for the company's success, and are based on statistical findings and empirical values. They do not reflect any actual or precise values or information of an individual company but serve solely as an orientation of the possible IC Risk. Precise information about the value of the intellectual capital (explicit & tacit / present & future) included in a company valuation can only be gained from a detailed calculation carried out in accordance with IAS 38 in a specific individual case.

 

The owner of this homepage hereby warns all users not to rely on the information provided for financial investment decisions or any other financial purposes, and to seek independent financial advice from an appropriate professional. The owner of this homepage does not give any warranty as to the accuracy of any information provided on this homepage to any person for purposes of financial decisions.


Mail us at dpo@areopa.com