Liked this NYT article: Moonlighting Within Microsoft, in Pursuit of New Apps Admittedly it would work best in the technical enterprise, where you can slice off a specific piece of value and develop it. A kind of crowd-sourcing, but internally done, with the people that have the most knowledge and talent to do the work involved. Certainly this could be done in different enterprises as well? ...
" ... Microsoft has taken an unusual step. It has relaxed a strict rule and will let employees moonlight in their spare time and keep the resulting intellectual property and most of the revenue, as long as that second job is writing apps for Windows Phone 7-based devices. And they don’t have to do that work quietly. The company is having weekly pizza parties for workers who pitch in to write code for the platform and is planning ways to publicize their work, including posters and awards of recognition, said Brandon Watson, director of developer experience for Windows Phone 7. Free Windows 7-based phones were given to all employees in the 19 countries where the phones are available ... "
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