A prominent engineering company – leading in specialized equipment, solutions and services for building, operating and upgrading industrial facilities – faced a shifting business landscape and unwanted player moves in the value chain as a result of digitalization [...]
Proactive IP Creation – how 4 companies turned strategy into IP portfolios positioned to drive business outcomes. “Why don’t we have the right IP yet,” the EVP of Global Products at an American technology company asked herself after leaving a strategic review meeting for a billion-dollar business area. “We have all the foundations in […]
The urgency of the climate crisis drives unprecedented need for diffusion and scaling of sustainability innovation across industries and geographies Orchestration and governance of business ecosystems are emerging as critical strategic topics for navigating the sustainability transition IP managers must recognise potential impact on technology sharing and business ecosystem strategy, and address any capability gaps […]
How Dematic quickly established a new IP StratOps capability to address immediate pressures and new opportunities, and stay ahead of the industry curve. Innovation to keep the world moving KION Group, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is a world leader in industrial trucks (#2 globally) and supply chain solutions (#1 globally). Dematic, headquartered in […]
“Our IP department was working well according to our traditional metrics, and we were filing IP efficiently. At the same time, the business relevance of the portfolio was a black box to us, and strategic alignment was low – especially in fast-moving parts of the business.By shifting to IP Jobs-to-be-Done, it became possible to shape […]
Using Weakly Supervised, Semi-supervised, and Supervised Learning to Classify Patents at Different Granularity Levels Machine learning can help automate monotonous work. However, most approaches use supervised learning, requiring a labeled dataset. The consulting firm Konsert Strategy & IP AB (Konsert) sees great value in automating its task of manually classifying patents into a custom technology […]
What if a company was targeting a predictive maintenance use case without the proper operations and aftermarket expertise onboard? Or if it spent tens of millions on building new data-driven services without involving any business development strategists? The chances are that any CEO would view such approaches as major red flags and seek to address them immediately. Yet many organisations lack a less obvious, but still critical, capability in their digital business teams [...]
Watch the video below from CIP Forum in December 2021. In this panel discussion our CEO Jens Bördin is discussing IP and digitalization with Anders Lindh from Mettler-Toledo and Michael Tagscherer from Giesecke+Devrient. Panel description from CIP Forum: “Industrials under digital transformation are facing an increased need for partnering, want to be quick at claiming […]
Rebuilding your IP team to meet new needs posed by the rapidly evolving digital environment can be less of a wholesale teardown and more of a directed evolution. Intellectual property is essential to win in digital business – it is key to control critical positions, build trust and balance exclusivity and openness [...]
Being a leader in semiconductor solutions and microelectronics, Infineon is one of the world’s foremost technology-based businesses. Fittingly, Infineon’s IP function is a highly skilled and high-performing organization, managing around 12 000 active patent families. To stay on top, Peter Berg, Vice President of IP, and his management team wanted to make sure the IP organization was as efficient as possible and supported by effective software tools [...]
At a glance Technology-based competitiveness is increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI). Yet few companies have successfully scaled the value of AI solutions. Under the hood of AI, powerful engines built on machine learning are becoming table stakes. The most critical building block for success is the data that fuels the engines. Data puts a […]
Konsert’s Senior Advisor Anders Lindh, former President of Applied Manufacturing Technologies at Sandvik, and Director Robin Sparrefors discuss why IP must have a seat at the leadership table when building digital business. Anders shares his views on why strategic learning is key for digital business owners and on the role of intellectual property in the […]