Scale-up is the last stage prior to full product launch. The following seven Competitive Assessment Tools and Viewpoints used for the Scale-Up stage (Tools 44-50) are focused on obtaining protective IP rights for the commercial product and any easy follow-on approaches competitors might try. Competitive Assessment Tools and Viewpoints tools help visualize how [...]
Development projects are the few projects that are highly promising for commercialization and meet all the requirements for profitable business products. The following eleven Competitive Assessment Tools and Viewpoints for this Development stage (Tools 33-43) are designed to test if candidate technologies in this stage have forecast long-term corporate benefits, and meet all [...]
The following twelve Competitive Assessment Tools and Viewpoints for the Feasibility stage (Tools 21-32) are designed to test whether a concept can be validated in the lab and with some lead customers. The emphasis is on proof-of-principle in real business applications. Business considerations such as market window and competitive reaction begin to be [...]
The following eleven Competitive Assessment Tools and Viewpoints for this Preliminary Assessment stage (Tools 10-20) are designed to explore new ideas and concepts and set in motion as many promising "seed" projects as possible. The cost of research and investigation is small here. A single worker may have a project or even work [...]
The following nine Competitive Assessment Tools and Viewpoints for the Idea stage (Tools 1-9) are designed to shorten the time to expand an idea. They allow the inventor to ask/answer the right expansive questions and prepare the idea for consideration as a formal project / program. Tool #1 Map of Similar Ideas, Art [...]
Competitive Assessment Tools and Viewpoints A way to map out the various Competitive Assessment Tools and Viewpoints needed at each Stage of an R&D project is shown in the “Competitive Assessment Tools and Viewpoints” figure. What follows is a Stage by Stage review of each of these 55 tools, starting with Tools for [...]
Technology Commercialization Stages The answers to these questions vary as a project proceeds along the Stage/Gate or Agile/Lean Sprint process. For the Stage/Gate process, the “Technology Commercialization Stages” figure shows what is expected at the end of each stage. Thus question answers evolve in sophistication and detail as the project proceeds to commercialization. [...]
Project Goals Most project goals are to quickly develop high-value products and services for the Corporation’s internal use, and to license out where appropriate an expanding net of related intellectual property. This is shown in the “Project Goals” figure. The role of competitive assessment is to spark, expand and audit all ideas to [...]
During technical and new business development projects, the assessments conducted at the close of each development Stage or Sprint are designed to reduce project risk. In this case, risk can be thought of as the likelihood and impact of an outcome less favorable than the most likely project scenario. Some of the project [...]
Best practices in patent portfolio management are dependent on a number of factors, including the industry, technology, company, and personal risk tolerance. But by examining historical behavior, it is possible to find some commonalities among them that provide good general rules to go by. For overall portfolio management see the section in Chapter [...]
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