Company's organisation chart is confidential information, the team I am in is in a rather uncommon organisation structure due to job scope and some geopolitical reason.
Suffice it to say that the team I am in is like a distant cousin of the local departmental organisation, with our closer relatives being in the organisation of another geography.
So anyway, last week, out of the blue, my manager asked me to prepare a one pager on the burning issue I am working on as a roll up to the direct management a few levels up.
The direct management gave an e-mail acknowledgement of the one-pager and that's about it. Doesn't bothered me really because the direct management should be well-aware of what I am working on anyway, given that most of the tasks are top down from them.
The unexpected part is when the local management invited me to go through the one-pager in their extended staff meeting, after my manager suggested it.
The material was prepared for the direct management, who are familiar with the work and hence I do no need to elaborate on things. For the local management though, a lot more explanation and background I had to cover. Not a big deal really, just more time consuming, instead of the one-pager, I had to go through several other materials. Actually even with that I am not sure if the audience truly understand. Very different job scope, you see.
But anyway, I am surprised by the interest it generated. I have been contacted by several colleagues through instant messaging and e-mail, wanting to discuss solution ideas they have. And many of them are heavyweight, high-fliers with some insane impressive number of patents under their belt. It's no exaggeration that the total number of patents I own throughout my whole career thus far is what they routinely get within a twelve months period, or in even shorter time.
Funny how when one is already up to the neck burning the midnight oil working endless overtime to get tasks done, it somehow attracts even more things to do. Of course they meant well, and I truly appreciate it. Honoured to be honest. These people are visionaries with noble goal.
In contrast, I just want this latest wild fire to be under control. I want something practical that can be realised and put to use in a month or so to mitigate the problem generated by that particular design team, of which the consequence I am firefighting now.
I am no visionary, I also do not have lofty goals of submitting invention idea to prevent competitor usage, or inventing just for the sake of it. I am looking for practical solution that people will actually use, not just fancy ideas.
To submit invention ideas we need relevant supporting data. I am more than happy to supply, like I said I am truly honoured these patent experts want to collaborate, it's just that my bandwidth is non-existent at the moment.
Who would have thought, that this one-pager shared to an originally-unintended audience, is such spark of interest?
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