Open Source Process Definition: Innovating the Innovation Process

Posted February 28, 2007 | Leadership | Leadership |

Collaboration can be thought as the central function in innovation. Lone inventors seldom have the necessary knowledge and skills to take ideas further. Above all, innovation requires the sharing of knowledge and ideas and the bringing together of people who have complementary skills for carrying forward new concepts. Increasingly, innovation is becoming a matter of collaboration within and between companies.

About The Author
Ana Paula Valente Pereira
Ana Paula Valente Pereira is a founding partner of WhatEver Consulting Group, a firm that helps customers to adopt an integrated set of standard IT processes, promoting open innovation and enterprise agility. She is also involved as a committer in the Eclipse Process Framework project. Ms. Pereira founded WhatEverSoft, a spinoff, in 1998, making it the first Sun Authorized Java Center established in Portugal. As CTO, she led the software… Read More
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