With the advent of the internet, it has paradoxically become increasingly complex to access the right information, given how numerous and multi-form that information now is. While decision-makers need a clear, concise view of a given environment, analysts, watchers and managers have to navigate blind through a shapeless mass of information to hope to identify the weak signals hidden within it.
In this context, it appears essential to equip yourself with the right tools to facilitate intelligence-monitoring and analysis work and thereby make the right decisions, with full knowledge of the facts.
This is precisely the purpose of TKM Platform, a multi-source intelligence-monitoring and analysis software platform designed to give concrete support to strategic decision-making.
Discover the power of this tool.
TKM PLATFORM: AT THE HEART OF TKM’S PURPOSE
TKM was founded in 2003, following several observations that have only grown stronger since then:
With the advent of the internet, access to information has become extremely easy.
But as a result, the volume of information to analyze is exploding.
Intelligence monitoring now has to be carried out on a global scale: technology, innovation, markets, competitors and partners.
Scientific and technical fields are becoming less siloed: the number of topics to analyze is increasing, including outside my usual areas of expertise
At the same time, economic cycles are speeding up and companies have to make decisions faster and faster.
It was in this context that TKM, a specialist in technical information engineering, states of the art, intelligence monitoring and intellectual property strategies, developed a platform (historically a software suite including IPMetrix).
Designed to analyze large volumes of information, this platform is able to process data coming from every available, useful source, on a global scale: patents, scientific publications, theses, research projects and, more broadly, all the information available on the web. The analyses it allows you to carry out feed strategic decision-making processes linked to an innovation process.
THE 3 NEEDS TKM PLATFORM ADDRESSES
In handling massive, large-scale information, IPMetrix was designed to address 3 distinct needs encountered by its clients.
# 1 Overcoming the heterogeneity of data sources
Scientific and technical information (patents, scientific articles, theses, collaborative projects,..), economic information, company databases, web articles…
TKM Platform’s first function is to bring information from a multitude of heterogeneous sources into a common format. Without this first building block, the analyst would be forced to run as many analyses as there are data sources. Whereas with TKM Platform, it’s possible to bring together all the useful information on a given topic, regardless of its source, origin, format or language. Any duplicates are identified and removed.
You then gain access to a shared knowledge base, from which a single strategic analysis can be carried out.
# 2 Making sense of a knowledge base
Who are the players in this topic? What are the main themes and the players interested in them? What are the trends, the emerging technologies, their degree of maturity? Who is doing what, with whom? Who are the experts, the opinion leaders worth interviewing? The leading organizations, any start-ups?
These are the kinds of questions that the analysis carried out by TKM Platform helps answer. Semantic and statistical analyses, mapping, data visualization… You can even use it to identify new markets and your future clients.
The platform provides a set of tools that let the user begin building, within a few hours, an initial level of intelligence on the field they are interested in and discovering. These analyses, built using the “Analysis” module, help feed your intelligence monitoring and your decisions, but also help detect innovation avenues that are far more creative and diverse than through a conventional, unaided ideation process.
# 3 Capitalizing on and collaborating around your intelligence monitoring
All too often in companies, intelligence monitoring is carried out in a decentralized way: everyone works on their own. When one of its employees leaves, the company risks losing this knowledge, which constitutes a genuine intangible asset it has nonetheless paid to build.
In the best case, an Excel file remains, holding all this monitoring work carried out over past years. Suffice it to say that this knowledge base stands every chance of never being used by successors, who will be forced to start again from scratch.
To avoid this pitfall, TKM Platform was designed to centralize all the information arising from intelligence-monitoring work, so that it is genuinely possible to build on it over time.
Real-life example: On arriving at the company, a large group’s new head of intellectual property gained access, from his dashboard, to every single R&D project undertaken by his new colleagues over the past 10 years! An incredible time-saver, immediately feeding his discussions with the teams with no wasted time on either side.
Marketing, process teams, procurement management,… everyone can find value in it.
As a collaborative tool, TKM Platform makes it possible to run a mixed community around a shared knowledge base. The various employees involved can thus build on a given initiative, product or start-up profile, thanks to an easy tagging and document-sharing system.
So rolling out TKM Platform not only fosters real-time collaboration, but also lets you build an intangible asset that will last well beyond the time the various employees spend within the company.
THREE USE-CASE EXAMPLES WHERE TKM PLATFORM MAKES A REAL DIFFERENCE
As an expert in your field, you know that the key to your success lies in your ability to innovate. To reduce your uncertainty, you need reliable, objective data.
The analysis and knowledge-capitalization tool, combined with TKM’s expertise, will help you get a detailed view of your technological and competitive environment, so you can make the right decisions.
A genuine aid for informed decision-making, TKM, beyond offering you TKM Platform, can in fact handle all the laborious tasks inherent to intelligence monitoring, so your colleagues can fully devote themselves to their own area of expertise.
Technology intelligence monitoring on a given sector
To know everything that is happening in your environment, what your competitors are doing, or to learn about trends in a given field.
State of the art
To stay up to date on the state and progress of technologies and their maturity, learn about the players behind them, and identify potential partners or competitors.
Industrial property
To monitor competitors’ patent-filing strategy, carry out prior-art research , identify problematic patent applications in time and attempt to weaken them within the allotted deadline.