Methods of companies intellectual property management: process approach

Abstract

Introduction. Effective enterprises intellectual property management is an important way to increase the efficiency of the enterprise. Formation of the intellectual property assets increases and strengthens its competitive advantage. However, at the domestic enterprises there are many problems in the management of the latter. The questions as for use of modern management techniques need to be clarified. Especially it concerns the process approach.

Purpose. The aim of the article is the analysis and justification of methods of forming the system of companies intellectual property management on the basis of the process approach.

The method (methodology). The study is based on the use of complex general and special techniques and methods of scientific knowledge. Thus for the study of theoretical positions as for the use of different methods of process approach we have applied historical and logical, synthesis and classification of abstraction methods. To discover the subject of study and the relationship of its components we have used the methods of detalization and synthesis. Information base has been composed of legislative and regulatory legal acts of Ukraine, foreign and domestic scientific publications.

Results. It has been carried out the analysis of modern management techniques on the basis of the process approach, which include: management by objectives (Management by Objectives); controlling (management according to deviations); TQM (Total Quality Management); Shuhart-Deming cycle (PDCA); the method of "six sigma"; business process reengineering (Business Process Reengineering); benchmarking. The features of application of each method, their advantages and disadvantages are analysed. It has been proved that to control the processes of formation of intellectual property management it is appropriate use such methods as method of management according to objectives, total management quality method; cycle PDCA, reengineering and benchmarking.