Elm

In a nutshell

Trade Secret Harvesting or Discovery

Why it is needed

A company should have good knowledge of thier trade secrets (see Hazel for why) but discovering what trade secrets a company has can be difficult. Elm helps facilitate the process of discovery so that trade secrets can be logged.

Elm more details

• A web based trade secret questionnaire that can be sent to key people within the company to help discover trade secrets
• A comprehensive and organised catalogue of potential trade secrets
• A trade secret classification system

Who is it for

The person (or persons) responsible for Trade Secrets within the organisation.

However the questionnaire would be sent to key people across the organisation for example

• Senior managers
• Middle managers
• Individual contributors

Further information

A short paper on Elm is available on LinkedIn