# 4irelabs LL 2019 (WIP)

## Challenges

* New product customer development
* Funding Innovation
* Building the expertise pool
* Increasing the practice stability

## Results

### New product customer development

wiki, researcher position

### Funding Innovation

Since 2018 we've used the Dynamic Equity practice (Slicing the Pie), by asking partners to contribute part of their compensation to the pool (5-10%, sometimes more). This pool is now being used to fund the development of innovative solutions. Extra shares are used for compensation the after-hours work, hackathons etc.

### Building the expertise pool

Building the engineers community

### Increasing the practice stability

Aligning the interests by sharing the revenue with engineers
