The most valuable things in your business probably aren't on any document.
Surface the intellectual property that already exists in your organisation, before you try to build anything new.
What it is
Most organisations carry far more IP than they've named. It lives in the heads of long-serving staff, in spreadsheets nobody fully understands, in informal workarounds that represent your best thinking. None of it is documented or protected, and most don't realise how much is at risk until someone leaves. This is a structured exercise for surfacing what you have and identifying which knowledge is most valuable, most at risk, and most worth building around.
The core question
If you had to hand this business to a competent new owner tomorrow, what would break? Work through it across four categories: knowledge in people's heads, critical spreadsheets, informal processes (the real workflows, not the official ones), and decision patterns (the daily judgement calls nobody documents).
The competitive advantage question
What do you know how to do that your competitors don't? Not what's on your website: what you've genuinely worked out through years of doing this. That's your competitive IP, and if it's not captured, it's a liability.
How to use it
Best right after the Business Landscape Map. Two or three people who know the business well, ideally including someone long-serving. 45 to 60 minutes. You'll produce a named inventory of hidden IP mapped against roles and processes, with a clear view of what's most at risk.
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Kit includes the full workbook (four categories), a facilitated extraction/mapping format, a prioritisation scoring framework, and an IP register template. Access this tool
"Knowledge in someone's head is a person-dependent liability. Knowledge built into a system is an organisational asset."
Building Capability, Ch 2