While the world recognizes the importance of intellectual property rights, few know how to rapidly find and leverage opportunities hidden in the exponentially growing body of patent literature. Barry will share a compelling medical device case study that demonstrates exactly how product pipelines can be improved by identifying high value patent open innovation opportunities. He will demonstrate analytical approaches to find important patents as well as quantify how patent intelligence rapidly increases certainty around technology licensing and transfer.

During this insightful session, Mr. Crowley will identify the key barriers to bridging the gap between customer requirements and the product development process. For many organizations, innovation is technology – not customer centric. How does a firm ensure that innovative products will appeal to the market? How do you bridge the gap between the marketing and technical community in order to provide a direct path for customer insights to reach the technical community? And how can a process be developed to ensure that firms have a customer centric approach to innovation…each and every time they develop a new product?

In this practical session, Rob will provide an overview of the roadmapping approach widely used in industry to support strategic planning and innovation. Strategic roadmaps are simple visual diagrams that chart the overall development and alignment of activity across the business, linking technology investments to business goals and market drivers. The principles of roadmapping will be illustrated with examples that highlight alignment strategy, participants, process and key perspectives from a range of industries.

During this Webinar, Cheryl and Mike will define open innovation and its benefit to transforming businesses to create value and deliver sustainable growth. From the basic elements of Open innovation, you’ll be able to learn about how companies are using processes, systems and tools to deliver sustainable growth through a robust product pipeline. In this informative session, Cheryl and Mike explain what you need to know about the basic dos and don’ts are to practice open innovation.

New Product Development success rates have hovered around 20% for the past couple of decades. Why is that? Shouldn’t we all have become collectively smarter about innovation? The sad fact is that we have not – companies of all sizes still struggle mightily with the innovation process and most companies find that 50 – 90 % of their innovation initiatives fail. Companies have come to the realization that being customer driven is just not good enough. Why? because companies talk with their customers to find out what they want –listen to them and still fail, in so doing, concluding that listening to your customers can HURT your innovation process or that customers do not know what they want.

This session will discuss the upcoming user manufacturing trend, a development that recently is taking shape in larger scope and scale: User manufacturing refers to a publicly available software, manufacturing, and distribution infrastructure that enables creative users and customers to design, build, and sell their own creations to a larger public – without the traditional investments in setting up a business. User manufacturing supplements – or substitutes – mass customization strategies which many companies have implemented. It also may become the most efficient strategy to serve the long tail of variants in many industries.

During this Webinar, the third in a 'start to finish guide' to Open Innovation, Mike will further define Open Innovation and its benefit to transforming businesses to create value and deliver sustainable growth. This session introduces more elements of Open innovation, including the concept of Open Innovation Networks. Attendees will be able to learn about how companies are using processes, systems and tools to deliver sustainable growth through a robust product pipeline. In this informative session, Mike will explain what you need to know about the key do's and don’ts required to practice Open Innovation.

Are you struggling with implementing open innovation at your company? Identifying and harnessing external sources of innovation requires a creative organization with the right culture, processes and tools to make it happen. Internal factors can either stimulate or stifle open innovation. This Webinar is targeted at senior leaders to provide practical strategies and tools for ensuring the successful implementation of open innovation. The toolbox will cover elements of strategy, processes, and culture to enable company leaders to fill their growth pipelines using open innovation.

Disruption occurs when the introduction of new technologies enables changes in business models or fundamentally alters the cost base or functionality of products or services. Many elements of the enterprise surrounding products and services are vulnerable entry points for disruptive technologies: value chains, supply chains, delivery pathways and processes. This Webinar highlights common actions that companies can adopt to foresee these threats as well as insights into potential disruptions and how they can be exploited for competitive advantage. There are no quick fixes, but through attending, companies can start to address these points by anticipating possible disruptive scenarios before events unfold. The Webinar is led by three of Sagentia’s thought leaders, each with an interest in different sectors (industrial, medical and consumer goods) and draws on case studies, experience and tools and techniques that have been successfully deployed to identify disruption signals and help companies to respond defensively and offensively.

In this Webinar Elanor and Patrick will discuss the difficulties and challenges of global growth into the Developing and Emerging (D&E) markets. It will especially look at those where no established statistical / published information is available. They will share their extensive expertise in opening up new market opportunities for companies in Eastern Europe, Russia and Asia. In the course of the presentation, they will talk about a process for filling the blanks in and developing criteria for market attractiveness. They will also highlight challenges they faced in establishing their own networks of sources and potential partners as well as how they overcome and adjusted to the market, cultural differences in customers’ requirements and ways of doing business.