"Experience" or "Ideas"

Open source development and an invention in the organization are a little different. Open Source is meant free for all. Who so ever can use it. But an invention can be sold.

As spoken in class many of us might not come across inventions throughout our life time or our working careers. But there are other things that we do new at our work places. The concept of suggestions, Quality control circles and six sigma where in we improve the existing system or make a new system depending on the level we act upon.

For example in my previous office we had suggestion, QCC and six sigma targets in my division. Like turnover targets we had to give approximately 70-80 suggestions, 15 QCC’s and around 4-5 six sigma presentations. Now these are also ideas that are generated in the company and are used by the company. Now for example an employee moves from this organization and has got a job elsewhere he uses these ideas, suggestions that were implemented by him and his peers from the previous organization in the present organization as his own ideas. We call this as “experience” of the employee. This never comes in any agreement or contract that we sign with the organization.