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Four Pillars Transforming the IP Function to a Strategic Business Partner

Watch Jens Bördin, CEO at Konsert Strategy & IP, talk about the operating model needed to organize and manage IP resources to achieve your strategic ambitions. This video builds on Jens Bördin’s article “The organisational keys to unlocking your IP value potential“, which first appeared in IAM Issue 89, published by Globe Business Media Group […]

Videos · 9 min reading

Development of Digital IP Strategy to Manage IP Risks in Relation to New Digital Platform Suite

Client challenges While having a strong legacy in its product business, the Company was taking a leading position in the industry’s digital development and launched new digital-enabled solutions at an accelerating pace, creating new challenges and opportunities. The Client was setting out to solve customer problems by building a new scalable digital platform suite, creating […]

Cases · 2 min reading

Technology Innovation for Industry 4.0

Client challenges In an industry facing declining growth and reduced earnings over the past decade, the race to win in the industry 4.0 setting was at full speed. The company’s new Digital Executive, assigned with the task of addressing the challenges of digitalization, set up a new digital organization to work cross the different business […]

Cases · 2 min reading

Guiding Digital Workforce and Investments

Client challenges Technology and knowledge are key to the competitiveness of the client’s two main value propositions: customer-specific products for industrial applications and solutions to help customers maximize the performance of their products. In light of the industry 4.0 movement, the client was running an initiative to clarify and improve resource allocation and strategic workforce […]

Cases · 2 min reading

Development of Corporate IP Strategy to Support Business Rationale for a Large Patent Portfolio

Client challenges The importance of IP for the Client was growing rapidly due to convergence with the ICT sector and digital technology. The Company had a substantial IP organization, which however was considered a support function, focused primarily on reactively creating and maintaining IP rights with limited clarity regarding business use. The Client had a […]

Cases · 2 min reading

The Organizational Keys to Unlocking Your IP Value Potential

At a glance Companies which have succeeded in upgrading the IP function from a service agency operation to a critical enabler of IP-based competitive advantages have some things in common. This article elaborates on one of the most critical layers, namely establishing an effective IP operating model. The operating model defines how companies organize and […]

White papers · 14 min reading

Managing External IP Firms – 3 Steps to Cost and Quality Success

At a glance The combination of increasing cost pressure, need of more time for internal personnel to focus on key activities and promises of resource flexibility and access to specialized and niched expertise, is convincing IP departments to outsource activities to external IP firms. Still the desired benefits from outsourcing are many times unrealized and […]

White papers · 10 min reading

Volvo's Road to Business-Driven IP Management

At a glance In under two years, Volvo Group upgraded its IP management from a typical industrial company level to a business-driven engine with a clear focus on business returns. The article outlines the development of a business-driven IP strategy as well as the organization needed to deliver on that strategy. The article was first published in IAM-meda […]

White papers · 15 min reading