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”

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