Did you know knowledge workers can spend upwards of 30 percent or more of their time researching and trying to locate the content and knowledge they need in order to make critical day-to-day decisions? Designed to speed research and inform business-critical decision-making, Goldfire Connect, Invention Machine's new software offering, gives decision-makers access to the content and people they need to connect with in order to make decisions across an array of application areas. Join Invention Machine’s Vice President of Product Marketing, Ken Klapproth, for an overview of this exciting new software, and learn how your organization can accelerate research and optimize decision making with Goldfire Connect.

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2. Ken Klapproth
Vice President, Product Marketing

3. Connect. Collaborate. Innovate.
Connecting engineers on-demand to the
information, insights, people, &
expertise needed to accelerate product
development.

4. Nothing [Plows] Like a Deere

5. Nothing Runs Like a Deere

6. Nothing Runs Like a Deere

7. Nothing Runs Like a Deere

8. Opportunity to Innovate in Developing Products
Market • Technology / market landscaping
Analysis
• Understand trends and evolutions
New Product • Design a new product or system
Development
• Design a hybrid system
Product • Diagnose and fix product defects
Improvement
• Improve product to achieve a specific goal
Risk • Identify potential failure points
Management
• Develop risk mitigation strategies
Leverage • Patent strategies
IP
• Find new markets for existing IP

9. Market
Assessment
Conceptual
Design
Goldfire Innovator
‘Master Innovators’
Engineering &
Detailed Design
Change Control,
Mfg Planning
Sourcing &
Supplier Control
A Community That Innovates
Production
Planning
Market Rollout/
Goldfire Connect
Launch
‘Strategic Collaborators’
Product Development Process
Support &
Service
Product Portfolio
Management.

10. The Goldfire
Platform
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11. The Foundation for a Community of Innovation
 Innovation Intelligence Platform
 Patented Semantic Question Answering Engine
 Connects People To All Resources For Innovation
• Content: Internal, external, across language & format
• Market trends: Competitors, technology, industry
• Communities: X-discipline, internal/external experts
• Automated tools: Solve problems, fix/prevent defects,
generate optimal ideas
Researcher ITA Methodologies Goldfire
Internal External Intelligence
Semantic Engine
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12. Goldfire’s Semantic
Difference
At the heart of the entire Goldfire platform – the “secret sauce” if you
will – is the semantic research engine. Let’s take a quick look at this
unique Goldfire capability.

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