You raise a good point about innovation within the culture of a community organized around a common good versus a community organized around a corporate good. Is it possible to align those two? After several years of trying, I still don't know the answer. Successful alignments seem to have two factors in common:
* individual participants identify first with the community (Jeremy probably thinks of himself more as a TiddlyWiki person than a BT person) * the company sees or imagines ways they can "add value" on top of the common good (and charge for that value). Hypothetical example: BT using TiddlyWiki to package and deliver text messaging services to their business customers. More often than not two big factors get in the way of aligning common and corporate interests: * IP laws and standard practices. For example, many companies are now willing to license copyrights into a common pool but they want to retain their patent rights and positions. * Notwithstanding the IP issues, coordination styles don't mesh. Corporations live or die by cash flow. This gives everyone in the corporation a common yardstick for decision making and prioritizing actions. The community commons lacks any clear measure of the common good. To the corporate eye, these communities look chaotic and unpredictable and thus an unappealing avenue for investing resources. This last point brings us right back to the original thread and motivation for the feedback form experiment. Namely, how do we make visible the value created within the community in a way that supports and strengthens coordination and cooperation? -Greg On Feb 22, 1:54 am, Alex Hough <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul, > > To me it seems that Unamesa is different than the foundations quoted > above. It has an espoused purpose beyond the not-for-profit > safekeeping of the IP. I think that it is this that makes it different > than the open source projects you list, but not sure. > > About open innovation; the question of "what is after open > innovation?' in the context of R&D management is one that i have heard > recently. I floated the idea that the > IP-in-a-charity-with-specific-projects-model might be an innovation. > > There seems to be a shift in values amongst the business students and > tech people I meet. They appear to be more interested in sharing and > charity rather than forging white hot careers or developing a mega > cool application - (which is what they were into last year) . > > Some companies might have difficulties in attracting interesting and > talented people. Some drug companies, for example, might be having > difficulties developing their innovation strategies because their > values might not concur with those of the current generation of > students and potential recruits. If they had an "Osmosoft BT > Unamesa" informed identity – the > 'IP-in-a-charity-with-specific-projects-model?' – they would develop a > culture more attractive to employees and might even and culture get a > 'community' themselves. > > (It would be wonderful to have a Gregs, Jeremys, Erics, FNDs, > GiffMexes, Wolfgangs, Morrises, Skyes, Udos, BidiXes( and PSDs) in all > the communities and markets in which one belongs?) > > Alex --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
