Session: Project Sputnik and the Five Lessons Learned – Leveraging the power of the community to drive Innovation at a Large Company
Driving grass roots innovation at a large company is never easy. This is particularly true when the company is unfamiliar with the customer segment. Barton George will take you through the history of Project Sputnik, a skunkworks effort to create a community-driven Linux laptop. In this talk you will learn how the effort succeeded by involving the developer community, maintaining transparency and contributing back. The presentation concludes with the 5 key lessons learned that are critical to driving underfunded and out-of-process innovation
