Best Kept Secrets: how much do you value your company's technical expertise? Enough to prevent it falling into your competitor's hands?

摘要

How much of your company's assets are being squandered by sharing your technical data with other companies in a totally unsecured fashion? When you collaborate with your partners and suppliers in the Far East, how secure is the technical information you are sending them? When your technical drawings leave these shores, how much control do you have over them? Global manufacturing entails the distribution of high-value intellectual property in the form of CAD and other related documents. It has to be done as part of the design and manufacturing process. That means that it has to be passed on to manufacturers in countries where the moral and legal ethics of copyright protection are not as rigorously pursued as they are here.