Soft assets are the technical tools and applications that you use for your business processes, operations, and management.
Over the years, you would have optimized these tools and tailored them according to your business needs. These same tools can also be used by other startups who are too new in the industry and have little or no idea about managing various business aspects.
You can offer consultation services to these companies, train them, or even sell software if you have developed it in-house.
In the process, you may also learn something new from these entrepreneurs and use it for your business advantage.
People
Employees are a company's greatest asset.
Identify their technical and soft skills, and see who can play a key role in expanding your business forward.
Train your people, invest in them, engage them, and retain the most talented.
Appreciate them, praise them and promote them to key roles in your organization structure like sales managers, marketing managers and eventually, sales VPs and chief marketing officers.
You must invest time to understand all the assets that you do have, especially people because employees are the greatest asset in your hand.
Analyze them deeply, and you’ll be able to figure out how you can generate revenues from them. Indeed, this does involve coming up with new ideas, launching new marketing campaigns, and putting in resources.
But in the end, you’re also growing your business, even if it’s in a different direction. After all, who knows the idea might be big enough to result in a company spin-off one day.
Thank you for reading, I would appreciate hearing your thought on this.