Today, Intellectual Property (IP) is more important to business success than ever. What distinguishes IP management from knowledge management? Intellectual property is knowledge that makes your company unique and is a precious asset. Like all assets, IP can be leveraged to generate profits or it can go unused, and it can actually depreciate. In order to turn knowledge into a commercial asset, you need to know what it is, where to find it, who is involved, and how it was created and used. With Synergy, you can turn the intellectual property trapped throughout your organization into opportunities for revenue enhancement and competitive advantage, and avoid wasting resources solving the same problems over and over again. Unlike niche IP solutions that lock IP away and prevent you from seeing the big picture, Synergy takes a holistic approach, facilitating collaboration and secure knowledge sharing throughout your entire organization and reaching out to key stakeholders.

• Have one place for storing, tracking, and sharing knowledge, including unstructured communications, such as email.

• Implement security controls that match your organization and change with your needs over time.

• Eliminate confusion over who is responsible for information and what is the most current version.

• Link key knowledge assets to business entities such as customers, projects, vendors, employees, budgets, and even transactions.

• Use automated workflow requests to streamline information sharing, enforce business processes, track the progress of each task, obtain the appropriate approvals, and report on the results.
  
  
• Maintain an audit trail of anyone who creates, accesses, or uses documents, projects, accounts, items, etc.
  
  
• Share and solicit input from all stakeholders – employees, contractors, vendors, and customers, while retaining control every step of the way through the use of secure information portals.
  
  
• Automate IP–related tasks, such as trademark application renewal, with Exact Event Manager.

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Knowledge Management

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Leveraging Intellectual Property, Part 1

Leveraging Intellectual Property, Part 2