What your community can tell you about R&D is the basis behind Ship It!, a business model introduced earlier this year to XING by Jason Goldberg, its Chief Product Officer who joined the company earlier this year after his Web 2.0 startup, SocialMedian, was acquired by XING in December 2008.
xinglogo Based in Hamburg, Germany, XING is a social software platform and social network, originally founded as Open/BC. It competes directly with LinkedIn.
In this FIR Interview, recorded at Somesso London 09 on May 15, 2009, Neville Hobson and Jason Goldberg discuss the concept of Ship It! and how it can be applied to people and organizations elsewhere.