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Leveraging Community and Competition for Enterprise Software Modernization
The Power of Open Innovation
REAL MOTIVATIONS FOR INNOVATION
“We have no money gentlemen, so we shall have to think.”- Earnest Rutherford upon taking over Cavendish Laboratory in 1919
INITIAL INNOVATION SUCCESS
ENCOURAGE INNOVATION EVOLUTION
Enterprise Open Innovation
ENTERPRISE OPEN INNOVATION
What it takes…o Community of solverso Workflowo Pipelineo Proper incentiveso Lots of small challenges
ENTERPRISE OPEN INNOVATION
Benefits…o Redundancy
o Parallelism
o Self-Selection
o Best of breed
o Forced discipline
and…
o Shift in mindset!
INNOVATION AS A PROCESS
DevelopmentAssembly
Concepts
Design
Wireframes
StoryboardsPrototype
Marathon Matches
Testing
Bug Races
Architecture
Single-Round Match
ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE MODERNIZATION
Modernization is tricky…o Lack of documentationo Lots of patchworko Lots of work-aroundso Limited knowledge of technologieso Difficult to staffo Lack of code structure standards
MODERNIZATION “CHALLENGES”
Creative innovation…o Decompose and organize legacy codeo Testing assumptionso Combine business goals, proposed approach, discoveryo Gap analysiso Complianceo Governanceo Iterative and continuouso Algorithms and analytics – “Big Data”
DARPA INSPIRE PROGRAM: ZERO ROBOTICS
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