On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Joram Mwinamo <joram.mwinamo@gmail.com>wrote:
That clause of working on a similar idea.....is a big loophole. When sharing an idea you need so sign a non disclosure agreement and also a disclosure one, that if they are working on something similar they disclose before the meeting happens
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Frankline Chitwa <frank.chitwa@gmail.com
wrote:
Many people including me would like to do this, but from experience, am toning down on working with safcom. Thats cause safcom will take your idea and run with it, and not recognize you. Had an idea and floated it to them only to be given a disclaimer that if they are working on a "similar idea" I should not complain. How do you work with that?
Let them give us the solutions they can, maybe float that idea to tem and let their IT department deal with it.
@Frankline, the mis-trust is a big issue and its what I mentioned in my observations the other day. Infact, to get a comparison that it happens i.e the similar idea part, then watch foodchannel on dstv monday evenings. There's a reality show there called " Big chef takes on little chef ". Big chef is a the guy who own a successful and food menu innovative resturant ( offers an 18 course specialities ) while Small chef is a chain of highway - stopever restaurants. Small Chef CEO contacts Big Chef because the chain is not doing well and wants a menu change to create a success. During the process, Big Chef comes up with the correct stuff and it works but CEO of Small Chef tells him they were working on a similar menu, which is too simialr to the Big Chef menu ( which they had not disclosed to him until now ). So Big Chef takes him to task to get answers...and walks out of meeting.. watch next Monday... :-) FYI.