I conducted the session with 24 leaders of All India Council of Technical Education(AICTE) yesterday. The entire team travelled to Intellect design Center from Delhi and other cities to attend this 2 day workshop.
I love the enthusiasm and zeal for learning during the session. They took out their weekend to learn. I love the questions they were curious to ask.
I think that’s the change we are looking in Engineering and management education under the leadership of Anil sahastrabuddhe, where administrators are first learning hands on before introducing Design Thinking as a course in all engineering and management education. #leadership #design #engineering #engineering #management #education #designthinking #aicte #intellect
I watched ‘The Pixar Story’ on Disney+ Hotstar. The 90-minute movie is very inspirational on how they completely changed the animation industry.
The power of human genius and commitment! I did not know George Lukas of Star Trek fame was also behind it.
They produced 7 movies in a row that redefined the creativity in animated movies: 1. The Toy story 2. A Bug’s Life 3. Toy Story 2 4. Monsters Inc 5. Finding Nemo6. The Incredibles 7. Cars
Highly recommended! Obviously, many educators used movies as a tool to ‘inspire natural learning’ among their students. We as a leader in the industry are educators in many ways. We inspire our employees and customers and must have used some movies; like I use old Hindi movies ‘Bawarchi’ of Rajesh Khanna fame to explain the Power of Influence or #servantleadership etc.
I would like to invite your stories where you used such movies to inspire and accelerate learning. I want to compile the repertoire of various real-time experiences.
We set up ADK Eye Hospital in the district of Baghpat to serve rural districts of Western UP. The hospital is situated within a 45-minute drive from Delhi with state-of-the-art facilities. We are finding very high demand for Cataract surgeries and retina surgeries there from 7 districts (Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Shamli, Sonepat, Ghaziabad, Modinagar) with a population of over 12 million people.
Within 2 years, 50000 sqft exclusive eye hospitals are completing 1000 high quality surgeries a month with 5 state-of-the-art Operation Theatres.
We found demand has grown faster than what we anticipated. Thus, we are looking to enhance capacity and for compassionate eye surgeons for the hospital. The hospital will provide family accommodation and compensation.
We are also looking for healthcare fellows who want to work in western UP. We are exploring partnerships with international hospitals with focus on rural eye care for internships.
Could you please circulate among your circles to get the right compassionate surgeons and partnerships?
This morning, one of my friends sent this poem to me. It narrates the experiential definitions of simple and yet it is difficult to understand. These words are by Charlie Chaplin when he was 70. As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is Authenticity.
As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody if I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call this Respect.
As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call this Maturity.
As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm. Today I call this Self-Confidence.
As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today I call this Simplicity.
As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.
As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. Today I discovered that is Modesty.
As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worrying about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it Fulfilment.
As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection Wisdom of the Heart. We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others.
Even stars collide, and out of their crashing, new worlds are born. Today I know: This is Life!
I grew up with the assumption that ‘Panchayat’ consists of 5 ‘Panchs’ and 1 ‘Sarpanch’. Their function is linked more with judicial case resolution of the villages.
I learnt about the real purpose of a Panchayat in 2016 after studying the constitution. A Panchayat is equivalent to a local governance body as per all other countries. There are more than 900 million people who come under its governance and thus it holds a key for holistic development of a country. It consists of 11 to 17 wards members.
1. A ward member is the elected member for 100 to 500 families. He is responsible for developments at the smallest unit levels. 2. Sarpanch is also known as the President of the Panchayat in a few states like Kerala. 3. A Panchayat is responsible for preparing its development plan and they have to submit it in the Panchayat portal. The Panchayat gets a direct funding as per development plans submitted to their accounts. 4. A Panchayat also has the power to levy local taxes or sell forest produce in tribal areas to generate their own sources of revenues. The larger Panchayats near the cities get housing society local taxes as well as professional taxes. They are substantially richer Panchayats compared to remote Panchayats. 5. National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) is a central body for the capability building of Panchayats. 6. Mission Samriddhi has launched the ‘India Panchayat Forum’ to work on development at grass root level. 7. CDP – Cluster Development Program designed by MS has 7 frames for the development of Panchayats. – D1 – Personal Development (Leadership development, Self-belief, Visualisation) – D2 – Social Development (Education, Health, Infrastructure, Social Justice, Equality) – D3 – Economic Development (Agricultural, Allied services, SHG, FPOs, Financial and Digital literacy etc) – D4 – Ecological Development (Water, Soil, Forest) – D5 – Gram Panchayat Development Plans (GPDP) education and planning including low cost/no cost plans – D6 – Monitoring and Governance – D7 – Stakeholder management 8. Mission Samriddhi works with sectoral experts as well as Development Accelerators (NGOs, Corporates and Governments) to drive CDP at various district levels. The fellows on-ground facilitate continuous education and nudging at the Panchayat level.
Today is National Panchayat Day. I invite few corporates along with their employees to celebrate, connect and catalyse Panchayats. You can write to me or Ram at Ram.Pappu@intellectdesign.com
I watched the 2nd episode of ‘Guilty Minds’ on Prime Video.
It raised 2 key dilemmas or issues of this decade A. Impact of gaming on youth B. Effect of Bitcoin
Such games are getting into an addiction zone. It has equal or higher impact on a human’s brain than drugs. They show a young 19-year old boy committing murder under the name of a ‘challenge’ in a gaming scenario.
The challenge has reward money of 100,000 USD to be paid through Bitcoin – no account, no traceability. Parents or no one will not know anything.
Some questions: 1. Why are video game ads allowed when alcohol ads are banned? 2. The role of crypto currency as ‘hawala’ money? What is the purpose of its existence? What is the economic impact created by it?
Yesterday (March 26, 2022) was a historical and memorable occasion as we had the launch of HOCO Farming at Shiratoki.
Shiratoki is a village in the Zari Jamani region of Yavatmal district in Maharashtra. What made it truly memorable was that the 65 families in this remote village came together to make history. Forty farmers from the Kolam tribe broke silos and pooled 225 acres of land for Holistic Collective (HOCO) Farming.
I am proud to be a part of this fine example of Design Thinking in action. The first aspect was that they had broken the Rembrandt Silos by coming together. This requires all the farmers to have boundaryless thinking.
The second remarkable aspect was that they questioned assumptions. Thus far, they have practiced rain-fed agriculture that limited their produce to just a few crops a year. Average productivity resulting in meagre incomes had been the norm. This was now broken. They are now considering forty types of Kharif crops, Rabi and summer crops – all to be grown on the 225 acres of land with the direct involvement of 40 farmers.
This took dedicated and consistent effort by all the stakeholders. Gramin Samassya Mukti Trust, supported by Mission Samriddhi, was continuously supporting the seed that was collectively sown in conjunction with the farmers themselves. The seeds sprouted in two years. In the meanwhile, 18 farm ponds of 30m by 30m by 3m in size, many recharge pits, hundreds of meters of CCTs, farm bunds and dug wells are taking concrete shape, again with the direct involvement of the farmers.
Agriculture depends on effective water management. The tribal farmers saw the big picture (we call it L0) by mapping the terrain and then designing 18 water ponds of 100ft by 100ft by 10ft that are being dug using five JCBs. Bhartiya Jain Sangh supported in designing the excavation operation and loaning the JCBs. The design team has been meeting every week on Mondays with 10 experts to plan and execute the activities. I am happy to note that the government is playing an active role.
HOCO Farming! Holistic because it integrates Personal, Social, Economic, Ecological and Institutional Development (the 40 farmers have formed an FPO and selected a 10-member Board of Directors). And of course, Collective in its truest sense wherein all the stakeholders are coming together aligned to the purity in this purpose.
This launch is proof that going beyond limiting beliefs, collaboration, co-creation and innovation is the way forward. I am confident that this experiment will put Shiratoki village on the global map where people from different corners will come to visit, stay and understand the concepts of HOCO Farming.
During my student days, we used to hear stories about how the government procurement system was riddled with numerous challenges starting from the opaqueness of the whole system to counterproductive systemic requirements, there were some serious allegations of inconsistency involved in it as well. All these conversations inspired me to think of ways to harness technology to build transparency, rigour and efficiency in the whole process.
We at Intellect Design Arena Ltd got the opportunity to leverage technology to bring in the new wave of digital when we won the award for building technology and systems for a complete Procurement Portal – Government eMarketplace (GeM) for the Indian Government. This meant that we had to understand the finer nuances of the State Government and Central Government systems. It was a proud moment for me and my teams at Intellect for it was a huge task to live up to the expectations of integrating complex procurement systems run by various organizations under the Central and State Governments. A lot of systems were in practice but many were not documented. Today, our Honourable Prime Minister announced that Government e Marketplace (GeM) has achieved a milestone of 1 lakh crore orders through the Transparent Digital Platform in a single year. According to some reports, the government must have saved over 15% in cost (around 15,000 Cr) besides accelerating bidding and procurement.
Today, I feel pride and humility in equal parts in being able to make a small contribution towards making India better by working to improve the rigour of digital infrastructure in the country. I would like to thank my teams at Intellect Design Arena Ltd who have helped me in making my dream into reality. #GeM #gmv #procurement
Today, we are celebrating the 9th anniversary of the 8012 FinTech Design Center. Inaugurated on 23rd March 2013, it has always embodied the power of Design Thinking as the world’s first FinTech Design Center at Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
Personally, the 9-year long journey has been very rewarding. The Design Center has been a witness to my journey of applying Design Thinking from just product innovations to moving to applying it in deep process wiring, L&D, messaging, presentations, market strategies, UX and more.
During my Design Dialogues, as I try to resolve mystery to heuristics, I experience a shared ‘Moment of Aha!’ with my entire Design Dialogue team. This entire magic happens in the 8012 FinTech Design Center which gives us an innovative space to explore the power and vastness of our five minds. You can connect with Dr. Anbu Rathinavel to schedule a walkthrough of our 8012 FinTech Design Center.
Mission Samriddhi is building a collective farming of 300 acres by pooling in farmers of Shiratoki village, Yavatmal. The farmers were making less than 30,000 to 40,000 per acre.
MS design team consisting of 12 members with agriculture, water and social community experts, program managers, chartered accountants, terrain designers, market linkage experts and sustainable model designers have been working for the last 8 months on this project.
They need to design a capacity of 160 million litres of water storage for the next 2 crops. They are digging 18 ponds of 100 ft by 100 ft by 10 ft. All the large JCBs and large machines reached the site yesterday. There is a Bhoomi Pooja on 16th March at the site.
This kind of collective farming is getting designed among very few project heard.
Hello, my name is Arun Jain. I am a design thinker living in Chennai, India. This is my blog, where I post my thoughts, technology trends and tips about the fintech world and many more.
