Clarity and transparency: that is a big sea change and it will take some
organizations a long time to acquire those traits. On the other hand, I
suspect some of them will learn or die. Natural selection weeds out the
selfish clusters that can't communicate effectively.
Take a look at HP. The author of the book, "Wicked" is right: secrecy is
the essence of evil.
len
From: Richard Salz [mailto:]
> Note the efforts being made by IBM, the USPTO etc. to change the process
to
> enable commenting on patent applications.
More than that, we're going to be publishing our applications and clearly
identifying IBM as the owner; see
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/technology/26patent.html?ex=1159934400&en=
c3eb8a2bc7f7a219&ei=5070&emc=eta1
It's part of a new overall policy that, overall, I think is kinda cool. :)
