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Case Series: IP Jobs-to-Be-Done

“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 […]

White papers · 8 min reading

Exploring Supervision Levels for Patent Classification

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 […]

2 min reading

A Missing Piece to Maximize Digital Business Capability

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 [...]

White papers · 5 min reading

IP, Digital Convergence and Strategic Partnering

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 […]

Videos · 60 min reading

Two-Speed IP to Keep Pace with Digital

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 [...]

White papers · 8 min reading

Boosting IP Efficiency at Infineon

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 [...]

Cases · 3 min reading

Under the Hood of AI

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 […]

White papers · 12 min reading

IP's Seat at the Leadership Table

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 […]

Videos · 4 min reading

Innovation Frameworks for Digital Transformation

Panel discussion on innovation frameworks for digital transformation with Sven Schuwirth, Vice-President Digital experience & business at Audi, Victoria van Camp, CTO and President Innovation and Business development at SKF and Anna Kopp, IT Director at Microsoft Germany. The video was recorded as part of the IP Tech Summit 2020, produced by Premier Cercle. Visit Premier […]

Videos · 54 min reading

How Sandvik Ventured into Digital

In this video, Hugo Nordell from Sandvik and Robin Sparrefors and Jens Bördin from Konsert discuss the journey of codifying Sandvik’s core competence to win in digital manufacturing, including: Strategic imperatives for building Sandvik’s digital business Playbook for navigating digital change in practice Digital product success case Controlling key positions in digital the value chain The […]

Videos · 8 min reading

The Winning Card in Industrial Digitalization

This article has two parts. First, it explores the driving forces behind and the characteristics of the next wave of industrial digital ecosystems. Second, it outlines a point of view on how to plan an industrial digital play to win [...]

White papers · 10 min reading

Lessons From the Front Line of Digital Manufacturing

This article tells the story about Sandvik CODE and how the Center for Digital Excellence (CODE) was strategically built to codify Sandvik’s core competence and win in digital manufacturing. The article is co-authored by Hugo Nordell, Vice President of Strategy & Business Development at Sandvik Applied Manufacturing Technologies. The article was first published in IAM […]

White papers · 6 min reading