You don't have to sympathize with to collectors to recognize that their problem is yours Economies work and businesss thrive when resources are allocated efficiently-when markets,managers,directors, and investors know what their most valuable assets are and how to put them to their most productive use. We understand how to deploy financial and physical assets. Now intellectual capital is our most important asset-and in this new economic environment, we are as naive as newborns. We know it exists and know it is valuable; we are like eunuchs in a harem, thinking what marvelous thing we could accomplish if only we had the tools.