More about creativity

I wrote about the Say It Sign It (SiSI) technology. Thanks to IBM yearly initiative called Extreme Blue which invites technically-minded and business students to collaborate. I'm sure many interesting ideas were created. SiSi is just one of the few. Do you also remember the mapmixer? This technology was "born" from Yahoo "Hack Days" - a 24-hr competition that seeks to bridge product groups within the organization in order to build rapid workable prototypes that can be commercialized.

Whether it is a bi-monthly, bi-annual or annual effort, I personally feel it's a good platform to bring together ingenious minds within an organization. Such can be a synergy between and among various R&D, or product groups and departments. Let creativity run wild. Stop talking about cross-industry barriers when companies can't even bring break down cross-departments barriers and let people work together and collaborate.