The most basic step towards achieving excellence in IP strategy is to understand and efficiently manage your own IP portfolio. Managing IP covers everything from knowing what to protect and how, through to what breadth is needed from each IP asset (whether geographically, technical scope) or when to abandon IP assets that have no further strategic use.
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Insights about Managing your IP
Something quietly broke this year in one of Silicon Valley’s most-watched classrooms. In Steve Blank’s 2026 Lean LaunchPad at Stanford, every team used AI to spin up working products in hours — and the result wasn’t faster learning. It was faster failure. As Blank put…
The most valuable intellectual property in your business is often not the product your customers see — it’s the platform underneath it: the data it learned from, the delivery technology it rides on, the foundational patents everything else is built over. Several developments this past…
Most AI transformations will fail for a familiar reason. Not because the strategy is wrong, but because organisations misread how change actually happens. The recent BCG analysis makes this explicit: leaders assume alignment, but employees experience change as something imposed, not chosen. The gap matters.…
What actually decides an IP dispute — the strength of your rights, or the machinery around them? This past week delivered three very different answers to that question, and each one points to the same conclusion for business leaders: outcomes are built long before anyone…
Most capital allocation fights aren’t really about the numbers. They’re about the absence of an organizing principle. When a business has no clear answer to “what are we actually about,” every investment decision collapses into a contest between competing logics — the safe, modelable bet…
Intellectual property rarely fails loudly. It fails in the gap between filing and follow-through — the priority date no one re-checked, the order no one renewed, the AI agent no one supervised. This month’s posts make one point together: the threat to your most valuable…
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