Open Source Is a Model For Innovation
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| Innovation is being increasingly recognized as the key to growth, yet
| most senior executives give their research and development organizations
| little credit for generating it.
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| IBM, which has just launched a new R&D Management consulting practice,
| believes that companies can get their R&D organizations to help them
| innovate by having them align themselves more closely with overall
| company strategy.
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| The model for this, he said, is the open source community, which
| benefits individual members even as they share new ideas with others.
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| At first, he admitted, there tends to be resistance -- particularly
| among members of the R&D community -- to let outsiders into their
| labs. That is where the open source analogy plays well.
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