You have been asked by the CEO of your software organization to hire and manage a small group of software developers in an attempt to reverse engineer the latest release of the software by your leading competitor. The goal of the group will be to identify features that could be implemented into the next few releases of your firm's software. Would you consider hiring software developers from your competitors to start this group? Why or why not? What sort of legal and/or ethical questions might be raised by this reverse engineering effort?

You have been asked by the CEO of your software organization to hire and manage a small group of software developers in an attempt to reverse engineer the latest release of the software by your leading competitor. The goal of the group will be to identify features that could be implemented into the next few releases of your firm's software. Would you consider hiring software developers from your competitors to start this group? Why or why not? What sort of legal and/or ethical questions might be raised by this reverse engineering effort?

Principles of Management

OER 2019th Edition

ISBN:9780998625768

Author:OpenStax

Publisher:OpenStax

Chapter18: Management Of Technology And Innovation

Section18.4: Internal Sources Of Technology And Innovation

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