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Trade Secrets 101
Unlike patents or copyrights, intellectual property considered to be trade secrets never expire. An idea does not need to be unique or original to qualify as a trade secret, yet trade secrets offer a measure of protection that in some cases is stronger than any other legal maneuver. As long as a company takes adequate precautions to keep their secrets, they can use intellectual property rights to protect data compilations, equations, customer lists and in-house expertise.
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Knowledgebase
As the engineering workforce shrinks due to retirements and other factors, organizations are realizing they are losing a crucial source of practical know-how. As long-time employees leave, they take their competencies and first-hand experience with them. More and more companies are investing in competency mapping to capture some of that expertise while they still can.
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Knowledgebase
Keep your engineering project moving forward by avoiding the most common project management challenges. By controlling changes to the scope and timeline of the project, monitoring the work load and interpersonal dynamics of the team and removing inefficiencies from your processes and work environment, you’ll stay on the high road to successful project management.
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