Open Source Thinking in Operations

Open source is such a prevalent way of thinking across multiple industries these days. It makes it easy to forget that, not too long ago, it was an island of doing business in an ocean of proprietary-enterprise-only ways of thinking. William Cordis, Senior Director of Global Desk Deal & Buying Programs at Red Hat, is someone who has been “thinking open source” professionally for 15 years now. He joins host Briana Okyere to share his insights on this episode of Modern Business Operations. William started when there were only 1,600 team members at Red Hat. Today there are more than 20,000, so he has had a chance to observe open source thinking at work across the board; not only for his team members but also for Red Hat’s clients. Briana and William discuss different ways to use open source thinking for business, including:- having a governance and decision-making framework; a free-for-all doesn't work- how being engaged will consistently lead to opportunities- how the merger with IBM didn’t change the way they worked with Red Hat You’ll also hear why William thinks that even bad ideas can have positive results.   This episode is brought to you by Tonkean Tonkean is the operating system for business operations and is the enterprise standard for process orchestration. It provides businesses with the building blocks to orchestrate any process, with no code or change management required. Contact us at tonkean.com to learn how you can build complex business processes. Fast.