Process

Registered Patent Agent:

The principal of RBC is a registered patent agent who is licensed to write and prosecute patent applications at the United States Trademark and Patent Office.

Market and Portfolio Assessments:

RBC can perform a gap analysis that compares the market and intellectual property portfolio of a business to identify potential gaps in protection.

Perimeter Protection:

RBC will further expand the gap analysis of the market and portfolio assessment to identify potentially disruptive technologies and to identify protect the potential of future opportunities.

TRIZ:

Often new technologies must be found to address the identified gaps. To do this, RBC recommends the TRIZ methodology. TRIZ is a creative problem solving methodology that is gaining in popularity. Based on an analysis of over three million patents, TRIZ is a set of tools that are used to provide creative direction for intractable technical problems. The TRIZ process breaks technical problems down into a set of general physical parameters and then, based on these parameters, the TRIZ methodology identifies a set of principles that were successfully used to solve similar problems in the past. The strength of TRIZ is its statistical significance. Solution strategies generated by TRIZ have a higher probability of success than strategies found through trial and error methods. Because of its focused nature, RBC prefers TRIZ to brainstorming for most technical applications.

Intuitive Accounting Interface:

The intuitive accounting interface is a method of reorganizing audited financial statements in a manner that more clearly reflects the responsibilities of the people within the organization. The advantages of using the intuitive accounting interface on a project include:

1. the intuitive accounting interface bridges the operational metrics and accounting metrics in a manner that show how operating decisions impact accounting results;
2. the intuitive accounting interface bases everything on the actual accounting results which helps focus the organization on the issues instead of the numbers;
3. the intuitive accounting interface has great modeling tools that estimate the impact of operating decisions on the accounting results; and,
4. the intuitive accounting interface can quickly answer a lot of common questions that come up in organizations like "if I am making money how come I am always short of cash."

The intuitive accounting interface is our "go to" package for strategic analysis and operational planning issues.

Prototyping:

While no single company can do everything, RBC has broad experience and contacts in prototyping chemical, electrical, mechanical and computer programming projects for clients.

Scenario Planning:

RBC recommends preparing for the unknown using a scenario planning model. Specifically, RBC will help an organization:

1. identify the critical sensitivities of the organization; and,
2. prepare the appropriate plans to address.

The Discipline of Experience:

Organizations operate best when they face uncertainty as a team. RBC has decades of operational management experience and will show your organization how to use your technologies and strategies to maintain progress even during periods of uncertainty.