| Opportunities for Local Special Interest Groups (SIGs) |
| Written by Andy Bush, Director of Business Development, LiMo Foundation |
| Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:15 |
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Democratic governance can present both interesting challenges and opportunities for its stakeholders - challenges, when trying to balance the business and competitive dynamics of member companies, and opportunities, when leveraging collaboration to stimulate innovation and achieving cost mutualisation. 3 years in and the LiMo Foundation is proud of how it has managed the challenges and created opportunities for its broad member community spread across the world. What is becoming clear lately is that an Open Mobile Platform can provide the necessary flexibility to meet market specific needs. Most recently, an example of this came about in Korea with the inaugural meeting of KLEA (Korea LiMo Ecosystem Association), an independent group of companies agreeing to work together to stimulate innovation atop the LiMo Platform while boosting its commercialisation. It was fascinating attending that inaugural meeting, from the variety of ideas discussed and questions asked, it became clear that, where innovation thrives, “one size” does not “fit all”. Common local market dynamics and nuances, commercial opportunities and specific cultural difference require a very specific organisation, and that is best performed at a local level, with of course, the right levels of support from the Foundation. I readily anticipate seeing this “model” replicated across multiple regions, each having their own subtle (and not so subtle) differences, which allows for both differentiation AND innovation. Watch this space!
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