creativity

Large companies are now pushing themselves hard to keep pace with innovation and are experimenting with new ways to unleash the creative talent their employees hold.

It is largely beleived that getting the most out of the knowledge workers will be the key to business success in future.

Google encourages their engineers to spend up to 20 percent of their time on a project of their choice.

I am a big fan of Rajesh Acharya's idea of Samooha, which clearly is a web 3.0 model of businesses working seamlessly in a collaborative,inter-dependendent environment.

Narain shared with me another great web 3.0 idea which will allow creation of many web2.0 projects effortlessly. Connect with him if you want to forward your web 2.0 ideas faster.

Narain, also refered to me to a great project swarmcreativity.net, and this document on Coin - Collaborative Innovation Network reveals on how we are at the dawn of a whole new way of working together. ITVidya aims to facilitate innovations, collaborations, actions and transactions amongst our target community of Indian IT Professionals and Technopreneurs, and the global IT community and businesses who want to tap into these talent, Thanks Narain for sharing the document, it has already forwarded my thinking.

DYI Search Engine Optimization

One of the best tutorials out there is one called “DYI Search Engine Optimization” by Lorelle VanFossen. Specifically, Lorelle (lorelle.WordPress.com) has some great tips, including how to optimize your code, develop strong intrasite links, write with strong keyword usage, use categories and tags, and how to use ping services. Lorelle says that “the goal is to help search engine crawlers move through your website collecting information to be stored in the search engine’s database.

The key to your blog’s data making it successfully into a search engine’s database is to:

This is a story that will make rounds in the internet during 2006-07 and beyond. This is a story that belongs to the common people who can do uncommon things provided they commit themselves and work with extreme passion if there is optimal scope for them to think with their right brain and influence their left brain to realize the thoughts. Little more about the Brain at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/brain.html

This is a story that will encourage many more ordinary people in India and all over the world to pursue their extraordinary or unconventional ideas for the sake of larger human needs.

Understanding users (different from "customers") is a critical part of the innovation process that most technology companies in India either miss or are ignorant about. Today, this is one of the key reasons why Indian software services companies like Wipro and Satyam cannot produce innovative software.

Organizations believe that customers are users, however, in reality most customers are NOT users. As service companies, we focus on our customers but we completely ignore the users who will use the application or the product.

Typically, customers have no understanding of their users. This leads to:

I lived in India for 19 years, and feel fortunate for my wide range of experiences in this blessed land. Born in a business family with a silver spoon, I never had any shortage of resources for learning and growing.

I grew up with the strict discipline enforced by my parents and grandparents and the high standards set by them. I was a class topper all throughout my primary and secondary school, and received tremendous love and support from my teachers and friends.

After my 10th grade, when I went for my diploma in computer engineering to Government Polytechnic, Mumbai, I got to see a very different side of life. I learnt to do hard work with my hands as I learnt things like carpentry, welding, plumbing and smithy along with the basics of technology and engineering.

I recently put my thoughts together in retrospect and carved out this article on "How India can be the most innovative place".

The URL is :
http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/dec/26bspec.htm

Please check it out.

The Innovation Trip that I have created based on the thinking mentioned in the article is here:

http://www.innovationtrip.com

It also includes workshops focused on KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) related innovation.