Business

RaiseMe: Toward a more human(e) hierarchy

RaiseMe proposes a new model for identifying and recognizing employee potential in unexpected places. It provides equal opportunity for all employees to candidly share ideas with decision-makers by transforming concepts of radical freedom into practices that incentivize employees, hacking the social architecture of traditional organizational hierarchies, and connecting previously unconnected stakeholders to maximize preexisting (re)sources. » Read more

1 CommentPosted 13 Aug 2012 by CerberusCollective

The open source technology behind Twitter

We explore the open source tech behind Twitter

Without open source, Twitter wouldn't exist. Every Tweet you send and receive touches open source software on its journey between computers and mobile devices. We were curious about how much open source is used at Twitter. Beyond that, we wanted to discover how open source may influence the culture at Twitter, Inc.

We asked Chris Aniszczyk, Open Source Manager at Twitter, to share the company's open source story. Aniszczyk will be keynoting at this month's LinuxCon, August 29 through 31, in San Diego, CA. His topic: The open source technology behind a Tweet.

See what Aniszczyk (@cra on Twitter) had to say about open source and the open culture at Twitter.

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6 CommentsPosted 13 Aug 2012 by Jason Hibbets (Red Hat)

Top 10 signs your company doesn't "get" open source

Guy Martin, Managing Principal Architect at Red Hat, gives us the big reasons why companies shy away from using open source —and other misconceptions, like not being able to mix and match open and closed source applications and thinking open source is only about risk management. » Read more

3 CommentsPosted 10 Aug 2012 by Guy Martin

The seven deadly sins of innovation leaders

The sole purpose of a business is to grow. This can take on many dimensions – profits, revenues, market share, brand or community influence just to name a few. The road to growth is very simple. Innovation is required to drive growth. You make something better or new (products, services, solutions, etc.) and you sell to someone better or new (markets, segments, channels, etc.). Basically that’s it the rest is just fine print. » Read more

4 CommentsPosted 8 Aug 2012 by Jeff DeGraff

Best Buy saved by open source thinking?

Big electronic chain should implement open source thinking

A popular chain of consumer electronics stores in the U.S. laid off thousands of workers in mid-July this year. Yes, I'm talking about Best Buy, and their future prospects are not looking so good. But this company could still save itself if it quickly implements open source thinking throughout its stores. Open source thinking means viewing your customers as information producers not just entertainment consumers. » Read more

15 CommentsPosted 6 Aug 2012 by Phil Shapiro

Forget empowerment—aim for exhilaration

There is no doubt that there is tremendous goodwill, not to mention countless exciting experiments, when it comes to making the world of work more deeply human—designed to promote more freedom, equity, and engagement, and passion. Why, then, can those words sound so cheap and drained of their juice when we hear them repeated over and over by leaders of all stripes? Probably because they’re spoken so much more often than they’re ever enacted. » Read more

1 CommentPosted 31 Jul 2012 by Polly LaBarre

Valuing nature: How responsible water use sustains business, communities, and ecosystems

Given the evolving global water scarcity situation, the world’s largest beverage company created a new dynamic with its bottlers and external partners, one focused on conserving local watersheds, thereby improving water efficiency, avoiding costs and maturing their water resource management. » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 26 Jul 2012 by Greg Koch

Four insights to selling and marketing open source software

In the last 15 years of my career I have worked at several open source software companies, each with its own unique approach to software delivery, packaging, branding, and sales. Two things have become clear to me: » Read more

3 CommentsPosted 23 Jul 2012 by Paul Salazar

Green Energy Corp VP sees value of open communication (smart grids) in the eye of the storm

John Camilleri talks about open source integration for the energy sector. He is VP of Product Development at Green Energy Corp—a leading technology company that provides software solutions and software engineering services to communications, utilities, and energy companies.

How do utilities prepare for force majeure? » Read more

1 CommentPosted 16 Jul 2012 by John Camilleri

Management innovation according to nature's genius

The current industry model is broken. Our economy is built on a "take make waste" model that negatively impacts environmental and human systems and is not tenable in the long term. It is time to reinvent. We are gifted with an array of genius examples in nature–mechanisms and ecosystems that have evolved over 3.8 billion years and provide a blueprint for products, processes, and system organization that can be truly effective toward a healthier, resilient future. We propose that companies mimic nature and reinvent themselves around the fundamental science of Biomimicry's seven Life's Principles. This is Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius. » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 11 Jul 2012 by Chris Allen