I heard something which made me laugh. A while back, I made a score card, to rate the impact of unauthorised vendors selling my company’s intellectual property in my region (South East Asia). I made it just for our region and made it primarily so I could work out which cases should be escalated to our global intellectual property (Global IP) team. If I may say so myself, it was a pretty awesome idea. It helped to put a value on something that was very hard to calculate – how much impact was company x, having on our financial results, when we weren’t always 100% sure of how much business they were doing. Anyhoo… I heard the other day that the Global IP team is using my scorecard. The IP team ripped off my idea! LOL.

I’m actually not annoyed, more amused. And to be honest, I’ve “borrowed” a few internal ideas here and there as well… In the context of work, I like to call it “using best practices” although I guess I could write a whole blog post on the lack of merits of using “best practice” (aka “old practice”). On the other hand, I do wish I could “charge” the IP team for the use of my scorecard. I think the aggressive (legal) pursuit of 5 unauthorised vendors in my region wouldn’t be asking too much. Would it??

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