J&K Design Thinking workshop: Today, I got the opportunity to meet 20 Sarpanches from Rajouri and Poonch District of J&K. Mission Samriddhi and Gramonnati along with the Indian Army organised a Samriddhi Yatra to expand the world’s view of the newly elected Sarpanches. They have visited Hiware Bazar, Ralegan Siddhi and Pune before this 2-day Unmukt workshop.
There are many development accelerators participating to help ‘Connect the Dots’ to build a development highway with intrinsic strength of self-belief and effective planning.
I personally learnt a lot about the villages in J&K and about ‘Kashmiriat’.

During one of my Design Thinking sessions, someone asked me a question.
What is the algorithm for making an ordinary person perform extraordinary?
I was not ready for this difficult question. I have been struggling with this in our HR department and have been designing various frameworks like competency frameworks etc. Right now, we have heuristics patterns.
Then he asked me the next question, “How did you accomplish extraordinary results during 1993 to 2000 when Polaris grew at a CAGR of 115% consistently?”
Now, this question forced me to think and get into a reflective mood.
I acknowledged to him humbly that I don’t know the answer and that I will reflect and maybe come back to him with some patterns and anti-patterns later.
Now, I am posing a question to this august and experienced group to help me. I need help.
To me, being part of this group in itself qualifies for being in the extraordinary performance bracket.
I am looking forward to your responses in this group or my personal mail describing your personal moments of change from ordinary fresher to extraordinary performer. What changed in your thinking which accelerated your journey? It can be at any stage, when you were in your 20s or 30s or 40s or 50s.
You may narrate the incidence or the person who trusted you or the environment.
#frameworks #patterns

We are happy to announce our successful FY19 results, the results vindicate 4 points in our journey to be a global FinTech player
a) Belief in ourselves to deliver cutting-edge products
b) The power of brand driving business outcomes
c) Culture of Design Thinking driving operational excellence
d) Partnership with customers driving the outcome from contextual and digital
There are 3 triangles in which a product company works – Strategy, Business and Finance.
The Strategy triangle is all about the organisation’s design, technology, and the market that is chosen. So, making the right choices of 4 LOB structures, contextual & digital and advance market share is the 1st strategic triangle that is working for us
The Business triangle, where we are getting 65% of our revenue from advance market. There is a better pricing power, our products are chosen by top 3 players in each market which is supported by our license revenue growing from an average of $250K to close to $1Mn license value.
3 drivers of the Finance triangle: 36% growth in revenue, 144% growth in EBITDA, 180% growth in PAT, which is the outcome of strategy & business.
I must congratulate and thank the high intellect and committed leadership team and talent who made us achieve what we promised the investors.
#4QWithCNBCTV18 | Arun Jain, CMD, @i_DesignArena says expect a 20% revenue growth in FY20; Managed to sign 2 new large deals in FY19 & #govt achieved Rs 20,000 cr of sales on govt e-marketplace in first year itself#OnCNBCTV18 @latha_venkatesh @_soniashenoy @Reematendulkar pic.twitter.com/xbRUNM3DAt
— CNBC-TV18 (@CNBCTV18News) May 3, 2019

Intellect has won a large multi-million destiny deal from one of the top 20 banks in North America, for a Digital Transformation program in Payments. This deal is significant to Intellect as this is the highest deal ever won by the company.
The bank has executed the software license agreement for CBX 18 (Digital Platform) and Contextual Payments. The transformation program will be executed by iGTB in partnership with a global leading cloud platform and cognitive solutions company over a period of 3-4 years.
The Digital Payment Transformation initiative is a top five enterprise initiative within the bank established to drive digital leadership and regulatory mandates while delivering new payments capabilities and services to customers. By extending existing payment capabilities within the bank in new digital ways and adding complimentary contextual payments services, Intellect will be a strategic partner in the bank’s large transformation agenda.
This win in North America vindicates Intellect’s deep and early investments in building Cloud Native, Micro services based Omnichannel API first digital architecture for large, global and leading banks in driving Intellect’s products superiority in the FinTech world
#APIfirst #CloudNative #Omnichannel #ContextualPayments #iGTB

At Intellect Design Arena, we have a strong innovation engine with more than 1200 R&D engineers churning out the latest contextual enterprise grade applications on a regular basis. This is leading to better acceptance of Intellect products now in Advance markets, which are hungry for such enterprise grade contextual solutions which can coexist with their legacy complexity.Now, I am looking to monetise these opportunities on cloud-based business models. I am looking for a core team of 5 members with smart commercial and disruptive minds and understanding of the global financial industry.
I call it the Strategic Monetisation Team.

Does Design Thinking and South Indian kitchen’s idli batter have a connection?
A definite yes!
The person who conceptualised the batter to make tiffin recipes must have been a great Design Thinker!
By mixing lentils and rice in the 1/3 and 2/3 proportions, one has a batter that can be used to make three recipes – idli, dosa and uthappam on subsequent days. This not only saves time for food preparation but is healthy as well with its protein and carbohydrate content.
Design Thinking is present in how we have designed our lives both consciously and subconsciously.
“Design Thinking for businesses is an extension of day- to-day living.” This article appeared in Smart CEO, post the Leadership Unplugged event and it rightly captures the need for Design Thinking.
http://smartceo.co/design-thinking-workshop-intellects-arun-jain/

Treasury has a critical role to play in shaping a bank’s strategy as the treasurer has to monitor the liquidity exposures, manage balance sheet volatility, maintain capital buffers and comply with a slew of regulatory requirements, while contributing as a strategic partner to the business.
Disparate systems and silos hamper the growth objective of the treasurer. An integrated treasury & ALM with real-time view of exposures and risk, aiding rapid decisions is the need of the day.
Today, I feel proud to present ‘Capital Cube’ from Intellect, an integrated treasury & ALM solution, that aids the treasurer to strategically manage the balance sheet, adapt to regulatory regimes, optimise liquidity and leverage risk to maximise profits for the bank. Capital Cube enables greater strategic planning and execution by bringing together the six key business levers for today’s treasurers which are as follows:
- Treasury – Integrated Front, Mid and Back office with comprehensive asset coverage to mitigate operational, financial and settlement risks and increase operational efficiency
- ALM – Holistic view of balance sheet, identifying gaps in liquidity and impact of interest rates. Highlighting the true profitability across product lines and business segments.
- Capital Adequacy – Maintaining capital as per regulatory requirements ensuring optimum buffer for efficient utilisation of funds. Helps track and maintain regulatory ratios at optimal levels by ensuring proper balance of short and long term funding sources.
- Risk Management – Real-time capabilities to identify and monitor, liquidity and market risk through industry standards and metrics
- Client Servicing – CBX FX – Increasing customer engagement index by enabling the bank’s clients to hedge positions for better risk-return outcomes to fuel business growth
- Analytics – 21 key decision support analytics providing real-time business insights and highlighting areas requiring management involvement
This solution is an outcome of our more than a decade’s risk and treasury domain expertise while adapting to changing market, regulatory and tech developments.
As I reminisce the key milestones achieved and the major upgrades, I feel happy to see this product today as a functionally rich, designed on a tech architecture meant for zero downtime.
The journey which started with a funding desk transformation for a top 5 global bank in 20 countries across the globe covering Europe, UK, North America and Canada continued with a pan Africa implementation (20 countries) for a top African Bank . This was the time when we upgraded to a cross-asset solution.
This was followed by a major win in the Middle East, where we integrated with a third party CBS and enriched our solution with ALM.
While this was happening, there was a quiet revolution in India where we crossed 20+ customers and extended our offering to NBFCs, Insurance and Payment banks. During this time, new asset classes were supported, making it a comprehensive asset coverage solution.
The story got bigger when we provided our solution to prominent central banks in Europe, Asia, Africa and India. With central banks, we enriched our offering with Portfolio Management & Analytics and Reserve Management. ALM was upgraded and made functionally rich with a capability to provide a 360 degree view and management of balance sheet along with FTP.
Innovative product offerings helped us make in-roads in Turkey with Portfolio and Investment Management Firms and ensured 5 major wins in APAC. Throughout, managing risks and adapting to regulations was the forte and the solution was further empowered with liquidity risk and market risk management, while helping banks comply with Basel III reporting.
The brand has hence stood the test of time and evolved over a decade of growth, maturity and successful relationships globally.

Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) is setting up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for FinTech at the Software Technology Parks of India STPI-Chennai, in association with ELCOT, the Government of Tamil Nadu to establish Chennai as a FinTech hub.
This initiative will provide a greater platform and pave the path for growth of budding software companies involved in providing FinTech solutions.
I have been appointed as the Chief Mentor of this wonderful initiative and to support the startup community. The coming together of some reputed organisations like NPCI, UIDAI, IIT Madras, TiE Chennai, YES Bank, Paypal, Pontaq, HSBC, Torus and other partners is a great opportunity for sharing best practices and building a viable ecosystem at the national level.
A one-day “FinTech Design Thinking Workshop” has been planned on 11th January 2019 at the FinTech 8012 Design Center at Intellect Design Arena Limited to understand, discuss and deliberate on the strategy and roadmap for banks and financial institutions in providing cutting-edge technology solutions to support their business.
The conference is being attended by digital leaders from public, private & co-operative sector banks, foreign bank, delegates from the government and speakers from partner companies.







