Invented here, the Glossary
Invented here or not invented there (NIT), an opposite of "not invented here", is a type of argument or attitude that occurs when management of an organisation is uncomfortable with innovation or development conducted in-house.[1]
Table of Contents
5 relations: Commercial off-the-shelf, Employment, Innovation, Management, Not invented here.
- Appeals to emotion
- Organizational culture
Commercial off-the-shelf
Commercial-off-the-shelf or commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) products are packaged or canned (ready-made) hardware or software, which are adapted aftermarket to the needs of the purchasing organization, rather than the commissioning of custom-made, or bespoke, solutions.
See Invented here and Commercial off-the-shelf
Employment
Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.
See Invented here and Employment
Innovation
Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services.
See Invented here and Innovation
Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether they are a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administration respectively.
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Not invented here
Not invented here (NIH) is the tendency to avoid using or buying products, research, standards, or knowledge from external origins. Invented here and Not invented here are Appeals to emotion.
See Invented here and Not invented here
See also
Appeals to emotion
- Appeal to consequences
- Appeal to emotion
- Appeal to fear
- Appeal to flattery
- Appeal to loyalty
- Appeal to novelty
- Appeal to pity
- Appeal to ridicule
- Appeal to tradition
- Argumentum ad captandum
- Atrocity propaganda
- Flag-waving
- In-group favoritism
- Invented here
- Island mentality
- Not invented here
- Outgroup favoritism
- Think of the children
- Wisdom of repugnance
- Wishful thinking
Organizational culture
- Business culture
- Collaboration
- Employee-driven growth
- Feminisation of the workplace
- Founder's syndrome
- Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory
- Invented here
- Journalism culture
- Kiss up kick down
- Leadership
- Managing up and managing down
- Mandatory fun
- Meetings
- Multicultural organizational development
- Multistakeholder governance
- Organizational assimilation
- Organizational conflict
- Organizational culture
- Organizational identity
- Orgology
- Power distance
- Power dressing
- Shared leadership
- Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service
- Street-level bureaucracy
- Teamwork
- The Macintosh Way
- The Toyota Way
- Tick-box culture
- Toxic workplace
- Trompenaars's model of national culture differences
- Trust management (managerial science)
- Workplace spirituality
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invented_here
Also known as Not Invented There.