Vehicle manifacturing, any “smart” appliances

My answer is also every industry. It’s like asking what industry could benefit from collaboration.

Today, I was on a networking event for an industry that is currently heavily looking to adopt open-source collaboration, due to cost pressure. And it was such a surreal experience.

You had dozens of human beings in this room, who all understood that collaboration is good. Who understood that the shared goal of surviving as an industry requires collaboration. Who understood each other as human beings.

But because they collect their paychecks from different companies, you had these stupid infights of “our product is better”, as well as monetization always being prioritized higher than collaboration success.
It did not feel like we were working on a shared goal, and rather like each company was just trying to sell their product. Rather than one solution, there were as many solutions as there were companies, each one pitching their solution as the one solution everyone else should agree on.

Yeah, I don’t know what the moral of the story is. It just felt so incredibly stupid.

Video-conferencing, it’s terrible that most platforms out there aren’t interoperable, and you have to choose which platform to use between businesses, and tough luck if your video-conference room doesn’t support anything else than the one in use within your business.

There are solutions out there to bridge these, or you can buy other hardware kits that claim to support multiple platforms, but that doesn’t help you if you can’t afford to replace those right away.

heathcare systems like EHRs.

education

Transportation engineering.

While design is performed by a mix of public and private entities, most of the end clients are governments and they could have software developed and made free for use by their consultants.

Government

Medical imaging software.