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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

Upgrading IPMS to improve efficiency and satisfaction

Client challenges Overall, the client was increasingly dissatisfied with the current IP Management System, experiencing inefficient work-arounds, incomplete data sets and poor User Experience (UX) design. However, some user groups were very pleased with the existing solution, so management saw a full IPMS migration as a last resort option only. An underlying reason for this […]

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Patenting When Innovation Goes Agile

Common concerns among IP organizations are that the inflow of invention disclosures from agile teams is too low, and that it is difficult to keep up with the high pace and changing directions. Watch Karin Lersten and Robin Sparrefors talk about what distinguish IP organizations that are successful in agile innovation settings. This video builds on Karin […]

Videos · 2 min reading

Three Key Strategies for Adapting Patent Departments to Agile Innovation Settings

As companies grow their digital business, many R&D organizations transition to Agile innovation practices *, both in software and hardware development. Any implementation of Agile leads to key changes in how firms innovate. Changes include how R&D objectives are set, how resource prioritizations are made, and how fast development cycles are run. Instead of the […]

White papers · 8 min reading

Patents as Business Risk in Financial Services

Watch Jens Bördin and Filippa Plate talk about how patents become a business risk as digitalization is rapidly disrupting financial services. As the financial services sector becomes increasingly technology-driven, banks and financial services players are transforming their innovation, M&A and risk mitigation tactics. Large incumbents are ramping up their patent portfolios at a speed which […]

Videos · 2 min reading

Patenting Digital Innovation – Why, What and How

Use cases driven by digital technologies are an increasingly bigger part of companies’ business strategies. Yet, what we often discover when co-developing clients’ strategies is that few IP organizations are equipped to create patent portfolios covering software-focused technologies. Watch Therese Werner and Johan Wiklund talk about what and how software-focused digital technologies can be patent protected. This […]

Videos · 2 min reading

How Do You Achieve Cost Control in Preparation for an Economic Downturn?

At a glance Heads of IP are asking themselves today how they can prepare for the uncertainty of tomorrow. Konsert Director Thomas Hedberg shares strategies for preparing IP operations for an economic downturn. Thomas Hedberg is a senior advisor for Konsert. He has extensive experience in the field of IP, for example from 8 years […]

White papers · 3 min reading

Understanding Digital Patents

Use cases driven by digital technology are an increasingly bigger part of companies’ business strategies, both to create new customer value and to reduce operational and supply chain costs. Yet, outside the major technology companies of the world like Google, Microsoft and IBM, few IP organizations are equipped to create patent portfolios covering software-focused digital technology. […]

White papers · 5 min reading

Born From Business Need

In 2010 TD Bank observed a worrying pattern emerging among leading US banks; they were ramping up the size of their patent portfolios at a speed which had never been seen before. Bank of America was leading the game with filing rates on par with some tech giants (eg, Adobe and NVIDIA) with many of […]

White papers · 10 min reading

Tactics for Negotiating Intellectual Property

Client is a global industry actor experiencing an urgent need to strengthen their capabilities in a range of disruptive areas (e.g. connectivity, autonomy & electrification) [...]

Cases · 2 min reading