Competitive and Technical Intelligence ToolBox

TMSearch   ( http://www.tmsearch.cn/ ) is a good source for searching Trademarks in China.

Sentiment analysis and opinion mining are good ways to identify the people reaction towards any technology, product or people. This can give lots of insights which can be used in the market and product development intelligence. Following are the few tools for the same: Twitter Sentiment Analysis ( http://480-twitter-sentiment.appspot.com/ ) This app will search twitter for tweets related to a given query, and it will determine the sentiment behind such tweets. Each tweet will be considered positive, negative or neutral. Tweet Sentiment Visualization ( https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/tweet_viz/tweet_app/ ) http://www.sentiment140.com/

In any business process there is a terminology called the “Triple Constraint," which means that between T ime , C ost , and Q uality/Scope , you can only improve two out of the three, and always at the expense of the third. The triple constraint is sometimes referred to as the Project Management Triangle or the Iron Triangle . Industries are developing innovation process steps and use of automation and intelligence tools and techniques to optimize these three parameters in order to achieve the best combination. Use of various programing tools such as VB, Python, R, etc., along with Artificial Intelligence algorithm and concepts could save lots of time and cost in processes/steps does not require human thinking and analysis. Even complex codes can be written to do the regular stuffs and save time and mitigate human errors.

There are employees who have grown to the top Management level position due to there expertise and experience, but lack MBA degree and thus sometimes lacks the common jargons and terminologies used in the business. The list of following books are good sources for developing the business sense and make you equipt with the jargons and terminologies. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight by John Foreman Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld , Jason Mendelson Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else Outliers: The Story of Success The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are...

I am in the area of outsourcing business and have to manage many projects and large team of varying roles and responsibility. Project & team management which was one the core part of my KRA and to streamline the project I was in a hunt of good project management tool. After spending lots of time and efforts and testing many sources both open source and commercial one, few days back I found Rukovoditel .  At first it looks very simple and I discarded, after few days back I studied about it and tested it thoroughly. It’s really imaging! I can say is the best system for project management, I like the kind of customization and flexibility it provides. It’s like you get a system and you can customize it based on your needs at any extent.  Another best thing about it that, you can use it as CRM system as well. Its up to your imagination!! I highly recommend this to all, just try once, I am sure you will love it.

In today's modern world, it is common to hear about diseases that you'd never heard a decade ago. A number of these newly discovered diseases are well understood and treated, but many others are still incurable. Some of them are lethal, while others are not. Still, they've been affecting the way people live today. Here's a bit more about some horrible and even life-threatening diseases. 1 Schizophrenia 2 Ebola 3 Polio 4 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 5 Diabetes 6 AIDS 7 Asthma 8 Cancer 9 Progeria  Source:http://www.enkivillage.com/incurable-diseases.html

The Fung Institute is developing several tools to aid in the discovery of patents around a common technology or application. Leveraging advances in machine learning and automated content analysis, the Patent Discovery Project scans a set of hand-coded “training patents” and then finds a range of similar patents based on the similarity of patent abstracts and patent claims. These tools can be used by researchers to identify a broad population of patents for study from a smaller set of known cases, significantly reducing the search time of researchers in finding related patents. The first application of the Patent Discovery Project is a tool that investigates the emergence of Clean Technologies in the U.S. Patent data. After identifying patents (as described above), the exploration tool below  allows users to filter through and browse patents by cluster, technology, and type of patent assignee. Clean Tech Patent Discovery Tool