Shout Space

Here I am with my thought space. At last. 

So what now? Where does the Inspiration come from?

Scene 1

Just in one of those ‘lets talk about world’ chats that started off with our friendly baker’s decision to extend the menu with noodles, I ended up listening to my colleagues questioning the purpose of my existence. There were two reasons for that claim of theirs: One, I haven’t read DaVinci Code. Neither did I make an honest attempt to watch the movie. Second, I didn’t have a registered blog under my name. With no mind to start off with their first claim, I went ahead with the second. The point my colleagues were putting across was that the life of a man in the current Internet world isn’t complete without a blog. Well anything else? No that says it all. It’s a statement. You better have a social networking id and a blog id. Else you are from Stone Age.

Scene 2

I was reading the first edition of Innovations from MIT press. Diego and Doug were invited to contribute the lead article. They write about Innovation and Leadership in a Networked World. They explain in depth about the way organizations and ecosystems collaborate in Web 2.0 era for a faster innovation cycle. The case of Steve Johnson’s Myelin Repair Foundation is fantastic and comes as a real teaser for Universities swearing believe in ‘Hide and Seek’. MRF’s model showed a three fold increase in output per one million dollar invested. Diego had provided ‘Behind the Scene’ details of the article, as how Doug and he collaborated for the article, in his blog post. Both the article and his blog are classic examples of Collaborative Innovation through Collective Intelligence. Blog by virtue becomes one of the essential collaborative tools

Two scenes, two perspectives, two players but the later wins my inspiration.