course laws vary between countries. Answer some of the following questions in your discussion 1. Clearly, you've built an asset owned by your company, but do you have a legitimate claim to any part of it? 2. Can you take any part of this knowledge or even the design or code itself with you to another employer or for the purpose of starting your own company? 3. Suppose you do strike out on your own and sell your system to other companies. Is the ethical dilemma mitigated by the fact that your original company isn't in the software business? 4. Or that you've sold your product only to noncompeting companies? What if we were talking about a database instead of a system? ses/15057 What part of an information asset belongs to an organization and what is simply part of an employee's general knowledge? Information, knowledge, and skills we develop in the course of working on projects can be inextricably intertwined. You're the project manager for an effort to re engineer your company's marketing operations system. You have access to confidential internal memorandum on key organization strategic and procedural information. To build the new system, you and your team have to go for some advanced technical training on the new technology products you'll be using. The new system you build is completely revolutionary in design and execution. Although there are areas of patent law that cover many such situations, there's not much in the way of case law testing this just yet, and of course laws vary between countries. Answer some of the following questions in your discussion 1. Clearly, you've built an asset owned by your company, but do you have a legitimate claim to any part of it? 2. Can you take any part of this knowledge or even the design or code itself with you to another employer or for the purpose of starting your own company? 3. Suppose you do strike out on your own and sell your system to other companies. Is the ethical dilemma mitigated by the fact that your original company isn't in the software business? 4. Or that you've sold your product only to noncompeting companies? What if we were talking about a database instead of a system? course laws vary between countries. Answer some of the following questions in your discussion 1. Clearly, you've built an asset owned by your company, but do you have a legitimate claim to any part of it? 2. Can you take any part of this knowledge or even the design or code itself with you to another employer or for the purpose of starting your own company? 3. Suppose you do strike out on your own and sell your system to other companies. Is the ethical dilemma mitigated by the fact that your original company isn't in the software business? 4. Or that you've sold your product only to noncompeting companies? What if we were talking about a database instead of a system? ses/15057 What part of an information asset belongs to an organization and what is simply part of an employee's general knowledge? Information, knowledge, and skills we develop in the course of working on projects can be inextricably intertwined. You're the project manager for an effort to re engineer your company's marketing operations system. You have access to confidential internal memorandum on key organization strategic and procedural information. To build the new system, you and your team have to go for some advanced technical training on the new technology products you'll be using. The new system you build is completely revolutionary in design and execution. Although there are areas of patent law that cover many such situations, there's not much in the way of case law testing this just yet, and of course laws vary between countries. Answer some of the following questions in your discussion 1. Clearly, you've built an asset owned by your company, but do you have a legitimate claim to any part of it? 2. Can you take any part of this knowledge or even the design or code itself with you to another employer or for the purpose of starting your own company? 3. Suppose you do strike out on your own and sell your system to other companies. Is the ethical dilemma mitigated by the fact that your original company isn't in the software business? 4. Or that you've sold your product only to noncompeting companies? What if we were talking about a database instead of a system
