IP Taskforce Conference November 12, 2003 The KM Foundation for IP Capitalization By Doug Crews...

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IP Taskforce ConferenceNovember 12, 2003

The KM Foundation for IP Capitalization

By

Doug CrewsPresident

Criteria First

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Knowledge management foundationGood KM practices lead to the identification of

intellectual capital

Intellectual capital may be elevated to become an intellectual asset

Intellectual assets can possibly be cultivated and processed into intellectual property

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The KM CultureEducating your employees

Noting the value of knowledge sharing

Using the tools available for capturing and sharing salient information

Identifying IC and potential IP

What to do when you see such potential

What systems and processes support this?

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Capturing knowledge Document management

Records management

Content management

Message management

Collaboration tools

Programming repositories

IAM / DAM / IP mgt tools

Workflow

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Finding knowledgeInternal resources

• DM, CM, RM, CRM, BI, competitive databases

Subscription resources

• Dialog, Lexis/Nexus, IP Café, Gartner, STN, …

Internet Resources

• IBM Patent database, USPTO, Google

Monitoring internet resources for pending or potentially infringing patents for conflict, overlap, and royalties

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Consolidating Federated searching• Searching across all resources in one swoop• Pulling results together in one view• Categorizing / classifying• Summarizing• Filtering and selectingContent integration• Combining salient explicit results into a

coherent view and repurposing to expose new implicit ideas and possibilities

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Mining for intellectual capitalKeyword

stemming, morphological, synonyms, lexiconBooleanNaïve BayseNatural languageConceptualAdvanced semantic searching• Latent semantic analysis• Latent semantic indexing• Probabalistic latent semantic indexing

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Connecting people Information should be easily traced to

originators, contributors, and implementors.

Obvious links to persons at every juncture

Expertise location

Profiles centrally managed• LDAP / Active Directory

Profiles in each system• CRM, Content systems• Dynamic organization charting with profile

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Overcoming intra-cultural barriersPeople in different departments see things differently and speak with their own terminology.

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Corporate islands Various departmental cultures speaking

different languages

Research & Development

Sales

Professional Services

Marketing

Customer Service

Human Resources

                                      

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Limits of technology You can capture knowledge as latent intellectual capital, but it takes trained, observant people to refine it into an asset and a process to transmute such assets into intellectual property.

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It’s all about your people People

Education

Processes

Tools

Leadership

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Leadership Shared language /

Common vocabulary

Trust

Influence and importance of informal knowledge-networks

Risks / Boundaries

Effects of boundaries

By example

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Thanks … questions?

Doug Crews

Criteria FirstManaging content for knowledge sharing

972-492-4428

www.criteriafirst.com

dcrews@criteriafirst.com