Irving Wladawsky-Berger [IBM] meanders around the apparent (?) oxymoron of collaboration in the market (with the outside world) and the accumulation of intellectual property aka patents at IBM and in the business world in general. His main interest lies - as it seems to me - in the care for attracting and maintening the best workforce. To have the best human resources available an enterprise needs to open its directives to allow and foster outside communications aka networking.
Well said, even if at the end of the day it’s still about profits. The interesting issue for me is now, how do you open your IT infrastructure to such efforts? It seems as if any platform needs to support and leverage public platforms. Building tools that only work in one enterprise and can’t communicate to other similar platforms is not only outdated but detrimental.
So what do we need: standards, simple protocols and great visions like del.ico.us and time.
Collaborative Innovation and The Humble Corporation :: AO: “Similarly, in the 2006 CEO study that was released this past March one of the key themes that emerged from the CEO interviews was that external collaboration is indispensable for innovation, with customers and business partners cited as top sources of innovative ideas. In today’s fast-moving and highly competitive world, more and more businesses recognize that there exist a lot more capabilities for innovation in the marketplace than they could try to create on their own, no matter how big and powerful the company. “
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