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Optaros Culture

Veröffentlicht 20 Mar 2008 von Bob Gett in OPEN SOURCE

Our goal from day one was to build a company that had impact. Whose name stood for market leadership, execution quality, and customer value add. We also wanted to grow rapidly and to scale properly. Recognizing that the market is highly fragmented, it's not about market share. It's all about mind share. To build a great company you need more than a great product or service for a growing market.

Technology companies historically work very hard to create and defend proprietary intellectual property. This IP represents the value of the company. The free and open source software world has a different view. The value is not in the IP itself but in the knowledge of how to use it. The most important asset of a company like Optaros is the experience, talents and knowledge of its people. This is our IP. But it is of little value if we can't apply this knowledge as broadly as possible.

This is why collaboration and knowledge share are so important to us. Yes, many companies talk the talk on collaboration. I believe Optaros is truly walking the walk. Collaboration doesn't happen automatically. People have to believe it is part of their job and that the company values it. At Optaros, you are valued not only for what you know but how much you transfer it to others. Companies today have awesome tools and technology to make collaboration and knowledge share easier.

However it won't happen unless it is embedded in the company culture. We are fortunate to have an outstanding team of people at Optaros. They are here because they will learn and develop at an accelerated pace. They know they are fully supported by their colleagues and that there are no organizational barriers to how fast they can progress. Our people take responsibility to lead. Our focus on our people, our culture, and our values is not just about making Optaros attractive to potential recruits. It is also a fundamental contributor to client and market success.

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On 28 Apr 2010, Subbu Iyer wrote :
I find this posting remarkable. I have provided a link to my blog site here where I have echoed similar sentiments; especially in the context of enterprise social networking. I am a firm believer in the definition of knowledge which goes by "Knowledge is not what you know; but what you do with what you don't know". From that perspective, it becomes extremely important for a process to operate continuously (the operative work) that can enable a universe of customers for a defined context to interact, attract, innovate,,deploy, service, retain and brand as a process; no matter what the industry vertical might be. Going through the Optaros site and this blog gives me the sense that those are the founding principles being employed. I would like to congratulate the vision, direction and purpose and herald it as a true harbinger of collaboration in the marketplace.
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