Patent Portfolio Management

Patent Portfolio Management –

Navneet Bhushan

Evaluating Inventions –

To evaluate a set of Patentable Inventions and rank them according to the value these can bring for the organization. Let us define Value of a Potential Patent as a function of following parameters (it should be noted down that these parameters are just a representative list, one can add or delete more parameters as per the requirements):

• Synergy with Existing Patent Portfolio: A Patent that enhances the existing portfolio will strengthen the organization’s position in the area and also get strength from existing Patents. This synergistic effect will enhance its value.

• Position with respect to Competitor’s Patent Portfolio: If a patent fills up a hole in the competitor’s portfolio and competitor need to use that patent for future products, it can help the organization in bargaining and cross-licensing scenarios

• Patent Vitality Profile: A Patent which looks very interesting at present may become obsolete quickly. Hence one needs to look at long-term survivability and usefulness. Besides vitality of a Patent indicates the potential of the patent to create more inventions on its basis.

• Industry Presence in the Field: If there are a large number of competitors in the field, it indicates a highly active field. A field which is just starting need to be evaluated on a more comprehensive basis. That is true for a field that is highly mature and might have reached a saturation level.

• Technology Maturity Level: Every product goes through phases of technology maturity, i.e., the technology S curve. Given the time of invention, it is prudent to ascertain where exactly in the S curve the present Patent is placed.

• Macro Level Valuation of the Patent: The most important factor contributing to patent value evaluation is the valuation in terms of monetary benefits that a Patent can bring to the assignee. This analysis may be done at a micro economic level. However, for prioritizing, a macro level evaluation may be sufficient.

• Scope of Rights Securable: the value of any patent rests on the scope of rights secured – as described in the Claims. What can be protected by the patent depends upon how broad the Claims can be. The breadth and depth of the claims depends upon prior art in the field and skill of the patent drafter to expand the scope and protect a large territory in the field.

• Ability to Detect Infringement and Enforce Patent Rights: How easy it is to verify the infringement of a Patent and prove it in a court of Law. If the invention is extremely complex and it is extremely difficult to establish infringement of the invention, it will be better for the company to either keep it as a trade secret or get a copyright protection by making it public domain.

Does Strategy Matters?

Is this the death of strategy? Does strategy matter?

We always are in evolutionary mode - organizations, businesses and all of us evolve - in our life period, in multiple generations - does it really matter -

What is your organization's Strategy - right now! It is very difficult to answer this

Most of us will say - well - My organizations strategy so far is Blah Blah blah - but what is my strategy now - well - I don't know!

A random thought - TRIZ - For Leaning the Thinking

TRIZ - Theory of Inventive Problem Solving is a systematic way to make thinking Lean

provided at the first place we actually think !

The problem is our minds are not designed to think hence elimination of waste from the thinking process does not arise at all!


Hence any method which (1) forces us to think actually create a mental fatigue (2) any method that eliminates waste in our thinking actually considered very complex as - since we don't think at all where is the chance of waste!

A Random thought, just like that...........

Crafitti Consulting - Engagement Levels

Crafitti Consulting

The Process

We start with a very clear message – we don’t know your problem. Further if you already know your problem, may be we are not the right strategic partners for you. We believe in structured approaches to find the right problem to solve rather than force fit cookie-cutter solutions to perceived problems that typically we believe we know. These approaches are our proprietary frameworks that are handcrafted and combined to orient the team and develop solutions to the specific business needs through following high-level phases:

Phase I: Finding the right problem through consensus

System Thinking based approaches help teams to explore, expand and enhance the scenarios to find the right problems to solve

Phase II: Finding solutions that you normally would not have thought of

The psychological inertia of core competence, we believe is the greatest hindrance to innovation. Through our step-by-step immersion process we take the teams through the scenarios that help them penetrate the barriers of psychological inertia. We craft brainicanes for loads of ideas.

These are clustered through adjacency matrices and solution depth is developed through recursive application of some of the frameworks and techniques. These solutions are mapped to key value parameters and evaluated for execution using our best-in-class framework based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).

Phase III: Creating Solution Execution Strategies

Combining the elements of Strategy, Process, Organization and Technology as part of Crafitti’s SPOT framework, we co-design the execution strategies for solutions generated in phase II.

These has an evolutionary flavour to them which helps us future proofing the solutions through set-based concurrent engineering (SBCE), Lean and TRIZ principles. Execution by thinking through things is our methodology that combine common sensical principles with deep execution experience to make solution execution lean, robust and predictable. Our approach produces a crisis-free execution where all stake holders are involved in the process with a comprehensive common operating picture available to them.

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Personal Journey - Bhelpuri Thoughts, A story - Ambition

The preface to my book titled "Bhelpuri Thoughts" - its being written continuously - and some day will get published I think - but till then preface should be good start on the blog. Send me an email (navneetbhushan@gmail.com) to get a soft copy of the book - written so far !
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BHELPURI

THOUGHTS

Navneet Bhushan

Bhelpuri is a true reflection of India. It is a serving of puffed rice in a spicy sauce with onion, peanuts, coriander and other condiments, served typically on the roadsides in major cities of India - especially in Mumbai.

Bhelpuri has another dimension - the collective taste that gets generated by the mixing of multiple ingredients by the Bhelpuri vendor reflects the life of India. The emergence of India is not in the ingredients but the way these get enmeshed in the history, culture, colors and social life that makes something that leaves a continuous taste for the outsider who visits here, just like the bhelpuri.

Thoughts that arise inside my mind are so diverse and are influenced by so many triggers that it is impossible to capture them all. But it is a surprise that they get manifested in stories, poems, essays, articles and dialogs over a period of time in my life. Some of this articulation happened through a definitive process of writing something on a specific topic. This required reading, research and analysis. On the other hand some of the thoughts occurred without much knowledge or effort – the small poems that I call thought snippets are windows to my mind over multiple years of passing through life. The stories – some of them happened because of specific events, some I deliberately created.

But the question is why these thoughts occur and why I expressed them in these multiple articulations? It is a mystery and a personal journey to understand myself. Who am I? Why am I? What am I? Why do we exist? Why does the universe exist? The questions remained unanswered to me. However there is a mixture of thoughts coming from multiple directions, from multiple events, triggers and experiences. The thoughts were manifested into multiple artifacts – the articulation form took poems, thought experiments, stories, articles, analytical insights, etc. Looking back at these, it gives a mixture of multiple thought streams flowing from my mind in different dimensions. Is it a thought Bhelpuri or Bhelpuri Thoughts - I really dont know!

(A NOTE: - FOLLOWING STORY - MY SISTER WANTED TO MAKE A MOVIE BASED ON THIS, IF SOMEONE WANTS TO MAKE A MOVIE ON AMBITION - SEND AN EMAIL - navneetbhushan@gmail.com)) - Copyright Navneet Bhushan

AMBITION ( A Story from the Book) (1991)

Slowly, I opened my eyes. The sun has come up and it is shining straight into my eyes. Now my daily routine will start. I will get up now, pull the curtains and will get ready for my office. “Oh! Hell, I had to write that dull story about the foolish politician who was my Boss’s mate”. I had written something last night and I know it had not come up well. My boss will say today, in his raised eyebrow style, “Girlie, you should concentrate more on the guy’s personality rather than his work – you know no politician works – so why give more importance to his work, why not to the man himself, his charisma, his following”. I will listen to him and will meekly say `Aye sir’. I was not such a meek reporter in the beginning; I was full of fire and jest and had a sense of justice. I use to think that my pen had a power that must be used for the right cause. All that has changed now… How? I don’t know- there were compromises….

The sun was hurting my eyes now. I got up and put water on the gas for making my morning tea. It is 7 o’clock in the morning; I have to report at 8.30. So there is still some time…

I looked myself in the mirror – the face that I saw still had life – eyes still had some sparks though there were some indications of initial lines of age under the eyes. I am – what – twenty eight years old – a good reporter in a national news paper – doing my job – you can cal me beautiful – people still turn around to look at me twice – I am happy, easy going but somehow my writings do not have life in them. That is what my literary guru Tony Guha told me. He said “Your life has too much goodness in it, you had lived in `rich environment’, you don’t know what is suffering, you don’t understand poverty – you simply can’t comprehend – you don’t even had any personal sufferings – you got whatever you wanted in your life. You can’t write until you yourself suffered a big blow in life”.

I had differed strongly from Tony that day, but now I am feeling that may be he is right. I do need a big blow in my life – something like a lover suddenly killed – so that I could write in the loneliness afterwards – a great tragedy writer….

Already it was 7.30 a.m. I got up and drank my tea. I dressed up and boarded 8.15 bus – there I met him – Sameer Sharma – we used to call him SS in our college – He was a tall, lanky guy, with very sad eyes, yet his lips were always smiling, irrespective of where he is – they were smiling now. He looked at me “Hi! Nisha, how are you?”

“What a surprise SS, how the hell are you? Where have you been all these years – no news yaar” I said. He smiled “I wasn’t well”. “Well! What happened to our young philosopher, who dreamt of changing’ the bloody, Hippocratic, lying, decaying society”? I asked. His smile deepened “you still remember my words – I have completely forgotten them – life was not fun al these years, Nisha…”

Then my bus stop came. I gave SS my card telling him to come to my office or flat at any time, and got down from the bus.

For the next three days I was busy reporting a murder of an elderly couple by some robbers. I didn’t get any time to think. On the fourth morning I suddenly remembered SS – I used to like him in the college – he was a shy lankiest boy – he didn’t use to talk much – but when discussing a point on which he head some knowledge he used to argue with such confidence that it was hard to think that this was the same shy guy. These inconsistencies I used to like. That day I didn’t even get his address. I was in such a hurry. Now I wanted to talk to him about our college mates, teachers and the incidents which looked so useless then but were so useful now. The memories have their own importance. The mind keeps track of its own history and brings out more and more of the beautiful incidents from its hidden recesses when some part of the same environment is generated in the form of person, place or thing of that time.

The ringing of the doorbell broke my thoughts – my doorbell has a shrill voice that jars you out of even the soundest of your sleeps. Reminding myself to replace the doorbell, I opened the door and found Sameer – he was smiling as always…’

“What a pleasant surprise, I was just thinking about you”. “You won’t change Nisha. Why do you continue to lie”, he said. “Honestly Sameer, I was thinking about you, that day I didn’t even ask your address” I said. “Forget it. I have come to you for some help. I need five thousand rupees in cash today – I have to pay to the hospital then only I will be admitted. My draft will come in two or three days. Then I will pay you back”, he said.

I said, “don’t worry. I have the money, but what is the matter with you. Why do you want to get into a hospital bed”? He smiled with slight widening of eyes “you don’t know – I am a cancer patient – lung cancer – doctors say that there is a fifty percent chance if they operate me within four weeks else I will go and honestly Nisha, I was not meant for this world – the bloody, Hippocratic, lying, decaying society” He Laughed – his eyes were dancing but only for a moment then again that sad gloom.

I felt God knows what? I wanted to put my hand on his head and wanted to tell him that he will be O.K. Then an idea came to me “any how SS will die in four to five weeks – his face had that look of death – can I simulate love in my heart and then feel the pain that is missing in my writings. My writings will have that missing ingredient and I will get the best – will become the top tragedy writer – the best”.

The idea appealed to my mind. I started molding my mind to love SS. I started looking for all his mannerisms that I liked and stared ignoring all those features that I didn’t like. I convinced my mind that I should actually love him then only I can feel the pain of his loss.

Three weeks before his operation, I told him that I loved him. He was startled and laughed at me “Why are you making fun of me, you know that I may die – rather there is a strong likelihood that I won’t live longer than three weeks”. I told him that he won’t die and my love will bring him back to me from the approaching clutches of death, but in my heart I was happy that he would die – I wanted him to die but told him that he will live. He thought about it and feeling my seriousness told me to get away from him, “Why do you want to suffer because of me – go – take yourself away from me.”

I looked in his sad eyes and told him that he will come back to me and together we will create a much better society – a true beautiful world full of love and peace.

He nodded his head and looked down. Slowly I raised his chin; his lined cheeks had two streams of tear coming down from his beautiful black eyes. I held him in my hands and looked at him, hoping that I won’t overdo my love act and light a will to live in his heart.

As the day of his operation was coming nearer, my excitement was increasing. For all those days I went to the hospital after my office. I showered my love over SS. I wouldn’t even talk about his coming operation but I would talk about the life that we would be sharing after three weeks – a life of love, understanding, peace and good fun. Whenever I entered his room, SS face would light up and his smile would generate a pinkish glow on his otherwise pale face. I prayed to God to take away his life so that I could suffer in his memory and pour my heart in my stories.

SS died exactly after five days of his operation. The death was quick. The doctors told me that there was no pain – the cancerous tissue had come over the heart and had stopped the blood supply completely.

I came straight to my room after his funeral. I was completely exhausted so I couldn’t write any thing that day. Next day I woke up with a slight headache, so I took leave from my office. I spent whole of the afternoon sleeping. At night I made up my mind to write – to write about things that would stir the emotions of the hardest hearts.

It was about nine o’clock, I took my pen and started writing – I wrote for the next three or four hours – I don’t know when sleep took over my consciousness and when I fell on my bed.

Next morning I went to my writing table to find out what emotional outbursts my heart had poured on the paper. There were about two hundred pages – but I had written only one word all over them. I had written Sameer – from the beginning till the end – there was nothing else, no extra word not even an extra comma – my heart had used all the space available to pour the only thought that it wanted my brain to think – I started crying, slowly at first and suddenly I was shouting – shouting – so loud that all my inner feelings were pouring out – “I love you Sameer” – “Sameer Oh! God I have killed you” – Oh Sameer, Sameer oh…

…And I knew that I won’t be able to write anything anymore – it was all over for me – I had lost – my heart has revolted against my ambition – oh Sameer…

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Principle of Maximum Entropy

INFORMATION-THEORETIC MEASURE AND PRINCIPLE OF MAXIMUM ENTROPY

Let P=(p₁ , p₂ ,…,p_n), be a probability distribution, then the first important measure of information was given by a pioneer Communication Engineer C.E. Shannon [2] in 1948. The amount of information is that amount by which the uncertainty in a situation characterized by a probability distribution ‘P’ is reduced, when it is known that which outcome will occur. The problem can be reduced in that of finding uncertainty associated with a probability distribution ‘P’. On the basis of some plausible postulates the measure of uncertainty of ‘P’ is deduced as

H (P) = - Sum(pi * ln(pi)) (1)

H(P) is known as a measure of entropy. The word entropy stands for ‘uncertainty’. H(P) satisfies most of the useful properties as, non-negativity, concavity, additivity, increasing with number of outcomes, maximum for uniform distribution, minimum for degenerate distribution and minimum value is zero etc. required to be satisfied by a measure of entropy. Here information and uncertainty are intrinsically related as

Information gained == uncertainty removed

Later E.T. Jaynes [3] used this measure by enunciating his Principle of Maximum Entropy (PME), according to which, out of all the probability distributions given, one should choose that probability distribution which maximizes H (P) and satisfy all the given constraints. In the absence of any constraints on p_i’s except natural constraints, the Maximum Entropy Probability Distribution (MEPD) is a uniform probability distribution. Further if additional information in terms of simple statistical moments of a random variable is prescribed, then we will get a probability distribution, which is ‘closest’ to a uniform probability distribution. In this sense, principle of maximum entropy is a powerful tool to analyse a situation, when partial information in terms of simple statistical moments is prescribed.

My QUESTION : HOW CAN THIS POWERFUL PRINCIPLE BE USED FOR PRODUCT DESIGN AND SYSTEM ANALYSIS?

Military Doctrine - How to Make Business Non-Linear

Just to give a flavor of how Military Doctrines has advanced and become more non-linear - I would like to refer again to my article Future of Warfare - A Search for Military Doctrine.

REQUIREMENTS OF FUTURE WARFARE - An Analyst’s Perspective

Future wars will require agile leaders capable of acting faster than the enemy to deal with complex and rapidly changing battlefields. “The military commanders must be able to see and understand their present state, establish a vision of future end state and to articulate a unifying concept of operations. Future battlefields will be more lethal, uncertain, confusing and with less time and increased consequences for decisions” [18]. However, on the battlefield it is our military commander’s intuitive decisions that will win the battles and ultimately the future wars for us. There is a need to assist this intuitive decision making capability of our commanders in compressed time. This assistance is possible through development of realistic mathematical models incorporating the detailed battle parameters.

The new and future battlefields will be highly non linear. The old concept of sequential battle front (see Fig 1) has been replaced by Follow-on-Forces Attacks (FOFA), Strike Deep Strike Hard (SDSH) and Air land battle doctrines (see Fig 2). In these doctrines, battle front is considered not only the immediate engagement area, but whole space and all those elements in that space which support enemy’s forward deployed forces. These war execution ways calls for hitting deep inside enemy territory - way behind the immediate fronts where the actual combat between regular forces is taking place. It involves, hitting enemy Command and Control centres, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems, Logistics Support System and Strategic Units, etc.

The future forces will be deployed as shown in Fig 3. There will not be a clear enemy in the traditional sense of combat troops, reserves, armoured division etc. Instead, enemy military force will be based on small, independent, highly mobile and highly integrated fighting units. It will be imperative for the attackers to destroy not only the fighter units but also the integration links. The basis of this integration will be the Command Control Communication Computers Intelligence Interpretability Surveillance Reconnaissance (C4I2SR) system, Space and Electronic Warfare (SEW) system and Integrated Logistics System (ILS). Therefore, a shift from linear to highly non-linear battlefields will reshape the future warfare.


The BIG QUESTION -

HOW TO MAKE BUSINESS NON-LINEAR?

Military Doctrines

About a decade back I wrote an article Future of Warfare - A Search for Military Doctrine.

2 War and War Related Doctrines

Knowledge must become capability

Clausewitz

War should be avoided as far as possible. The “avoidance of war” and the ways to do so, are in the realm of diplomacy, foreign policy and foreign relations. This is called the Political Doctrine of the country. It is however possible that the political doctrine of a country may call for war to attain a political objective. How to support and sustain war is the domain of what is called an Economic Doctrine. The main aim of this is to develop the economy and support the growth of the country. It should also be oriented to create capabilities and resources to sustain a nation’s military and political doctrines. The Military Doctrine is concerned with the ways of execution of war. An essential input to war making is the ability to collect, process and disseminate information and intelligence for timely and accurate decision-making. This is called the Intelligence Doctrine. Modern wars have an inherent threat of use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) which requires a clear cut policy i.e., a WMD Doctrine. The fourth dimension - space, is going to play a major role in future wars. Therefore, a clear-cut formulation of Space Doctrine is called for. The new reality of internet and real time media influence calls for formulation of a cyberwar doctrine to take care of Information warfare requirements. Fig. 2 shows the domains of various doctrines and their aims for maintaining the integrity and defending the interests of the nation.

It must be mentioned here that the compartmentalization of knowledge and planning related to war, into so many diverse doctrinal frameworks, has been done for the ease of studying them and highlighting the relations between them. For meeting any challenge to the national security or interests a total response comprising of inputs from all these doctrines is called for. The total response comprises of actions taken within the purview of all these strategic dimensions of National Planning related to war.

	Doctrines		Domain		Aim(s)
1.	POLITICAL DOCTRINE		International Relations Foreign Policy Diplomacy Politics		· How to Avoid war · If imposed, how to support war
2.	MILITARY DOCTRINE		· Army · Navy · Air Force · Space Force · Joint Operations		· How to wage war
3.	ECONOMIC DOCTRINE		· Economic Policy · Industrial Policy		· How to support and sustain war
4.	INTELLIGENCE DOCTRINE		· Intelligence Agencies · Analysis Agencies		· How to collect, process and disseminate information for timely decision making
5.	WMD DOCTRINE		· NBC Policy · Peaceful Nuclear Uses		· How to deal with enemy’s WMDs and deploy own WMD
6.	SPACE DOCTRINE		· Space Plans · Communication, Reconnaissance & Spy Satellites · Launch Vehicles		· How to support (1) - (5) by providing near real time information to analysts
7.	CYBERPACE/ INFORMATION WARFARE DOCTRINE		· Cyber Space · Audio Visual & print Media · Propaganda		· Propaganda in cyberspace · Counter enemy propaganda

It may be interesting to have a Total Response Business Doctrine - What will be the domains of Business Doctrines!!

Making Multi-sourcing Work

Making Multi-Sourcing work will eat up lot of band width of the companies that are choosing that route. Given the trend as reported by Gartner, multi-sourcing is the name the game.

Making multi-sourcing work

Step 1: Granularize work
Step 2: Look at the work elements and their interdependencies - How - Using the Design or Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM)
Step 3: Use a Value Model to understand and quantify the value of each player in the multi-sourcing scenario
Step 4: Use a Multi-criteria decision making technique (Analytic Hierarchy Process - AHP) comes to mind
Step 5: Using Lean Concepts of Value, Value stream, flow and pull to make work happen

This is a tough ask - to put is mildly! Are the players ready!

CoCatalyst - John Cooke

In April 2008 TRIZCON 2008, I met very briefly John Cooke, Managing Director of Co-Catalyst
- the firm that offers - Market Breakthrough Products, Problem Solving, Technology Forecasting, Technology Broking ---- WOW ---- How close to Crafitti Consulting- Well I looked at his business card recently and went through the site.

Then I got to read his BLOG titled

The Innovator’s Sweet Spot

Learning how to get to Market Breakthrough through targeted Technology Innovation

Well - I am planning to add John on my favorite bloglist - do I need to say more!

Life Lesson - Apply your own mind always!

When I was in school (Class VII - 1977, , 31 years back - phew), I was told by my Math Teacher,

"there is no harm in copying from the guy sitting next to you, in fact this indicates your smartness, but it is really the height of foolishness to copy as is without applying your own mind".

Somehow, this message has not left me till date.

And may be thats the reason for success in applying some of the abstract concepts to solve real life problems!

Crafitti - Crafting Innovation Graffiti

CRAFITTI CONSULTING

Crafting Graffiti - The Way Innovation Happens

When was the last time you looked at a freshly painted wall in a public domain? Have you observed a freshly painted wall - have you realized that it creates a definite feeling to do something on it. Have you felt a child like urge to take a piece of chalk or stone and draw something - anything on it? If you haven't ever had that urge - may be next time you see a freshly painted wall, just imagine that you are actually doing it? Doing what - changing it by scratching, scrawling, painting or marking it in any manner. If you actually do it - it is called Graffiti - as per wikipedia

As per wikipedia, Graffiti (singular Graffito) is sometimes regarded as a form of art other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted vandalism.

Well, whats the point?

Attempting innovation or any attempt to change the status-quo is sometimes regarded as ART but most of the times unwanted vandalism.

Graffiti's similarity with Innovation doesn't end here. The way Graffiti happens -the natural process of multiple hands and minds working on the same canvas -the wall - which is visual, available to be seen, and available to be changed has some of the elements to craft Innovation in any large organization.

Further, what emerges at the end, none of the participants - who made graffito marks on the wall - had any idea. None knew what is the ultimate output that the wall will have. No one designs - yet each one of contributors made it - the ultimate graffiti. How close to any Innovation one can think of.

Innovation need to be a social phenomenon just as graffiti is. Just like graffiti, any Innovation has an element of someone creating that initial mark on the plain wall - just changing the status-quo - that person may become the voice of protest, may be considered an unwanted vandal or may be considered as an artful genius, depending upon the impact and which side of the coin the viewer is. Once that mark is visible to all, some others raise their pencils, paints, chalks, - there comes an element of safety that since the first guy did it, so we can do it as well. Suddenly the tipping point happens when lot of people join in to make the graffiti on the wall of surface.

How close is Innovation to graffiti.

Crafitti Consulting - the new consulting firm that I have become part of, has developed mechanisms to craft graffiti - these help in emergence of new art, new products, new way of doing things - in fact new way of understanding and exploring the world around us. We are now ready to share and co-craft Innovation - and I am sure the unwanted vandalism may be the initial reaction one may get - however - once the marks and scratches are filled - we will see the emergence of new art - that is unimagined when we start.

We promise Emergence through Immersion!

CRAFITTI CONSULTING - PROCESS

CRAFITTI CONSULTING

The CRAFITTI CONSULTING Engagement uses the step-by-step process of exploring the system through our science based proprietary frameworks developed over a period of almost 2 decades of experimentation, exploration and evaluation. The process steps include mining Patent and web based information in a particular field to provide large number of triggers in multitude of directions for the Inventive minds to come out with large number of ideas for developing products, processes and patents in the chosen technical field. The Co-crafting Innovation methodology results in a large number of possible ideas that can be converted for commercial benefits in very quick time. Starting from the vague information about the technological area to look into, the Co-Crafting Innovation process rapidly penetrates through the barriers of psychological inertia in the minds of experts, to create insights into the problems that have hitherto been not possible. The systematic way to convert the unidirectional thinking along the core competencies of the experts in the fields into multi-dimensional storms of multitude of ideas in a limited amount of time is the greatest benefit that the clients have achieved through the Co-Crafting Innovation Engagements.

CRAFITTI CONSULTING - SERVICES

CRAFITTI CONSULTING

We offer to assist, collaborate, design and develop, solutions for the businesses across domains and around the world so that they succeed in the rapidly expanding Globalizing Innovation Complexity (GIX). Empowering ideas with a suite of well-designed, systematic, structured and science based frameworks - the Innovation Crafting frameworks:

We offer you to embrace GIX and create wealth in the world which is alive with multitude of multi-dimensional opportunities that are passing by as we continue with the businesses we designed for the last world.

Power is the ability to change. When ideas are empowered, organizations succeed and grow. This is the only blueprint for a future characterized by increasing Globalization and hence increasing Complexity. Survival and success in such a dynamic world depends solely on continuous learning and Innovation. CRAFITTI frameworks have been hand crafted for complex business problems by synergizing multiple science based methodologies. First time ever - all these frameworks are offered together as comprehensive solution to business problems faced by enterprises in Global Innovation Complexity (GIX) that we all are facing.

Our Services

We have developed comprehensive frameworks for following Business Areas

• Business Strategy Formulation & Tracking
• Product Strategy Formulation and Tracking
• IT Strategy and Business Alignment
• Opportunity Finding - for an Idea/Product
• Patent Portfolio Management
• Technological Alternatives to a Patent
• Outsourcing/Off shoring
• Innovation Management
• Strategic Insights

Starting CRAFITTI CONSULTING

From June 1 2008, we have launched CRAFITTI CONSULTING - the brand new Innovation Consulting Firm that works in the co-crafting model - working with the clients as partners rather than the fly by transactions operators that we have seen across the spectrum.
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Following is an introductory email that I posted to TRIZ India Yahoo group.
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Dear All,

After years of experience in applying TRIZ, using Patent databases and TRIZ based patent analysis, Lean Thinking and Decision Engineering techniques such as Analytic Hierarchy Process, in various projects across domains, we have started an Innovation consulting firm Crafitti Consulting (http://www. crafitti. com).

Over past many years, many of you have asked me whether I can provide some sort of consultancy on TRIZ and other techniques that I have experimented with. My answer had always been that since I am employed right now, I have to go through the organization that I work for which typically becomes a constraint. Now that constraint is no more.

The integrated approach of innovation that we have developed happens to be unique with inputs from Lean Product Development, TRIZ, DSM, AHP, and Patent Analysis. This integrated approach or frameworks as the case be, have been developed through years of experience in applying, deploying and embedding in the very fabric of large global enterprises. First time we are offering these as solutions to the unknown and known needs of Indian Industry as we sincerely believe that India needs to be empowered for innovation, especially when the young minds are thriving in large numbers in India.

Recent work published in TRIZ-journal for example is testimony to my claim that the results are definitely order of magnitude more stronger through our integrated approach rather than applying any of these techniques in isolation. http://www.triz- journal.com/ archives/ 2008/06/04/

We shall be more than happy to share with you our services and the way we can work together. Our model is Co-crafting Innovation together and I can assure you we will work with you in identifying the right problems, generating solutions that one normally would not generate and executing these in a manner where robustness and Lean thinking assures minimum crisis situations.

Our mantra is " We do not know your problems. If you already know your problems then also we are not the right partners for you. However, if you really want to build an organization that learns continuously, create blue oceans regularly and thrives in uncertain, unknown and unpredictable times, we would put our skin in your future. Thats a promise!"

Look forward to working with you in co-crafting a future that is innovative and exhilarating at the same time. We will do it.


with warm regards,
Navneet

Navneet Bhushan
Co-Crafter,
Crafitti Consulting
http://www.crafitti .com

Spying 2.0 - Intellipedia

Top Secret: CIA explains its Wikipedia-like national security project

Intellipedia lets spies post and edit content wiki-style, and includes YouTube and Flickr versions

The above news item is a clear indicator of things to come. The Two Dot Oh (2.0) revolution is ON - very much ON!

Accelerating the Death of Hierarchies -

I am my Network!

is the new mantra of Attention Economy!

Does it Really Work?

Does it Really work? How can you say that it works?

Well I dont have any answer to this question? Can anyone have this answer? This is what everyone asks whether it works or does not work, when one is faced with trying something that one is not used to.

The way to approach is in my view

When you buy a new pair of shoes - how do you know whether it fits in your feet or not? Well ...

We TRY THEM !

Mantra for Success

TRY IT!

There is no other Way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!