Open Source enterprise software offers more grounds for innovation than proprietary software, and how it encourages an innovative culture in your organisation.

1. How
Open
Source
drives
innovation

2. In this SlideShare you
will find out
How Open Source IT solutions are driving innovation.
What people need to know and understand about innovation.
How to create innovation within your organisation.
How Open Source specialist LinuxIT can help you to drive
innovation with Linux and Open Source IT solutions.

3. Why are Open Source systems and
software driving innovation?
Open Source allows you to customise and try out software,
1 building a computing environment to meet the specific
requirements of your business;
2 The licensing model of proprietary software is often
expensive and restrictive;
3 Open Source helps you to bring new products and services to
market more rapidly than your competitors;
Innovation is inspired by the collaborative nature of Open
4 Source IT solutions as they are developed by a community of
Open Source specialists.

4. Key issue:
People need to understand
what is out there…
“Open Source
accelerates innovation
and product diversity,
and people need to
understand what
demand is out there and
how it is developed.”
Simon Mitchell, Executive Director
at Linux System’s Management
specialist, LinuxIT.

5. Four top tips for creating an
innovative organisational culture
Encourage and reward staff and the organisation’s partners for
sharing expertise and knowledge to enable the creation of new
products and services, or to improve existing ones.
Use technologies that enable
and facilitate collaboration.
Educate people with new skills or work with Open Source
specialists to gain access to knowledge and expertise that can help
your organisation and its staff to become more innovative.
Make sure that the innovation culture
is inspired from the chief executive of
the organisation downwards.

6. How can
the right IT
consultancy help
you to create an
innovation-
focused
strategy?

7. A function for organisations to capture the
reliability of Open Source and extract value;
Assistance in identifying “robust and
supportable software that provides
longevity” - Simon Mitchell, Executive
Director at Linux System’s Management
specialist, LinuxIT;
An analysis of licensing costs, and advice
about what you can do to identify IT
projects that meet your organisation’s
needs for the long-term;
A managed
services Access to licensing business knowledge;
solutions Help to achieve improvements in revenue
consultancy and operational efficiency: innovation can
also reside in business process management
can provide: as well as products and services.

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