Innovation Management as a basis for successful development

Nikola Tesla's inventions changed the world. Today, when in various markets, including the telecom market, companies continually and aggressively compete for their market share, the ability to produce innovations, which Tesla mastered brilliantly, is the key factor in differentiating the successful and unsuccessful companies. To develop and maintain a company culture favoring innovative approach is the main strategic guideline of any modern company, the Ericsson Group included. However, an innovator in today’s technological and market conditions can no longer act on his own. Handling and supporting innovations should be organized activities, a process with recognized steps practiced by teams of experts and innovators. Such innovation management system has been implemented in Ericsson Nikola Tesla, the company that in its name unites the great inventor Nikola Tesla and the successful entrepreneur Ericsson who laid the foundations of the Ericsson Corporation. To be successful in innovation management, the company nurtures the winning spirit that motivates project teams to maximize the synergy of the competencies of the company’s experts. An example of a successful innovation by experts of Ericsson Nikola Tesla is the implementation of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) in the conventional AXE system. Based on this idea, a prototype was elaborated that won the internal Ericsson contest. The further step was product development, which involved over one hundred company’s specialists who worked on the project over one year. The paper gives a survey of the new layer architectures of telecom network with emphasis on SIP that has become major protocol in the world of contemporary telecommunications.