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Ken Klapproth

Vice President, Product Marketing

Connect. Collaborate. Innovate.

Connecting engineers on-demand to the

information, insights, people, &

expertise needed to accelerate product

development.

Nothing [Plows] Like a Deere

Nothing Runs Like a Deere

Nothing Runs Like a Deere

Nothing Runs Like a Deere

• Technology / market landscaping

• Understand trends and evolutions

• Design a new product or system

• Design a hybrid system

• Diagnose and fix product defects

• Improve product to achieve a specific goal

• Identify potential failure points

• Develop risk mitigation strategies

• Patent strategies

• Find new markets for existing IP

Opportunity to Innovate in Developing Products

New Product Development

Risk Management

Product Improvement

Leverage IP

Market Analysis

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Product Development Process

‘Master Innovators’ ‘Strategic Collaborators’

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The Goldfire

Platform

The Foundation for a Community of Innovation

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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

Semantic Engine

Methodologies Researcher ITA Internal External

Goldfire Intelligence

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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