Most of literatures on currencies of “Influencing
without Power” focus on skills, internal organisation command chain, convincing,
indirect power, or what makes people do specific task and to have attitude to cooperate
with others to reach gaols. In this case study paper currency of “influencing without
power” is investigated in one of the inspiration labs carried out and then compared
to current literature available on the concept of influencing without power or extra
resources. The paper focuses on understanding how inspiration economy “influencing
without power” currency has differentiated itself to leave an outcome not only results
or improvement of enabler skills. A model of “Influencing without Power” used in
inspiration labs was proposed followed by application on a complex case study about
a regional hospital with a problem of scarcity beds limitations for emergency cases.
The hospital was selected to experiment the concept of “influencing without power”
and its currencies through inspiration lab. The research method consists of the
analysis of the case-study specifically in its role in creating positive influence
through approaches that shows how the waves of influence are triggered and what
results or outcomes its creates. A discussion is done on the differentiation that
inspiration labs offer to the knowledge community in comparison to current literature
about influencing without power, or resources, or authority. The paper concludes
about how currencies of inspiration economy focus on influencing the mindset and
changing the way things are approached in dealing with problem solving, or overcoming
challenges. The paper shows how effectiveness of “influencing without power” generate
currencies that change the attitudes towards stages of synergy and opens new path
for more research on both inspiration economy labs and the socio-economic value
of influencing with minimal resources and limited or no power.
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