Facing potential disruption, the client needed to quickly ramp-up its innovation capabilities to compete against digital players attacking its current business model, and explore new digital business models while managing risk [...]
The technology landscape relevant to the client’s business was getting increasingly complex and converging with digital-based industries [...]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The importance of IP for the Client was growing rapidly due to convergence with the ICT sector and digital technology [...]
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 […]
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 […]
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 [...]