| Intellectual Property Policy. |
| 1. A Critical Success Factor (CSF) is to be honest, open and transparent with all business associates. A climate and culture of secrecy has been replaced with a culture of partnership and sharing for the benefit of all parties. |
| 2. Data is protected with security and privacy control measures, but information is published for the benefit of humanity. |
| 3. The names of people and companies is formally excluded from all published documents - relevant people know who they are and so names and acknowledgements do not need to be published. The names of people have been replaced with job titles to protect and secure the privacy of people and their families. In acknowledgement, the world is a better place because these people and companies choose to be honest, open and transparent. |
| 4. As a policy, objects are generally referenced in the singular rather than the plural for the benefit of people where English may not be their first language. |
| 5. As a policy, gender, age, race, religion, orientation, culture, colour are ignored and people are not classified in any way that could be used to discriminate. |
| 6. As a policy, people are not classified as "users" or "operatives" or "staff" unless it is critical in context. People do have skills and trades that are used to classify a persons role and responsibilities. |
| 7. A culture of continual evolutionary improvements is a critical success factor that has been proven over 40 years. Innovation has been simplified to a large number of tiny improvements to minimise risk, to minimise retaining and to maintain a high degree of backward compatibility. It is very hard to deploy something that is very simple. Never try to leap from one innovation to the next big innovation - eventually you will fail in a big way. |