K-pop – Korean pop is getting to the world stage. They used structure to bring a cultural shift within Korea and then made it an exportable industry since 1992. Today it’s a 5 billion dollar industry.
I normally see documentary movies around positive creations or impact. I bumped into a series, “Worst engineering accidents”. Gained some interesting learnings from the stories on anti-patterns of Design Thinking.
In animal species, male can also give birth. With a sea horse, it’s the male who gives birth.
Intellect has launched Xponent – AI based underwriting platform in the US with built-in Risk Analyst on Big Data and Cloud. A fully cloud native platform with continuous integration and continuous deployment capabilities connected to over 500 structured and unstructured data sources to drive higher quality decisions for underwriters and efficient systems.
The first of its kind where machine learning algorithm has been translated into decision algorithm, after 3 years of extensive research by the ISEEC team. It’s time to move away from complex rule-based systems to real-time machine learning systems.
Already 7 insurance companies in the US and Europe have signed for the platform on AWS cloud and have over 50 companies areevaluating it.
I believe my mind is very fair and unbiased. I was watching an IPL match between Hyderabad and Kolkata. I thought I was just enjoying the cricket match but my mind wanted to enjoy the winning of one specific team. Why such a bias when both the teams are not Chennai based?
Where does this bias come from? Does it come from the place or ownership of the teams or captains or players in the team or just to support the underdogs?
But because of this bias, the beauty of the game of cricket was lost somewhere.
I was reading the US Constitution and just 27 amendments have happened during the last 200 years.
One of the Amendments 18, in the year 1919 caught my attention. It reads:
“Making, selling and transporting alcohol within the United States, as well as importing and exporting alcohol to and from the United States and its territories, will be forbidden”.
It was implemented for 14 years and repealed in 1933.
I was surprised that a western country like America did it despite the cold weather. ‘Dry’, the Group linked it to human development and religious values.
Poorna is the youngest girl to climb the Everest at the age of 13 years and 10 months. She did this feat in 2014. It’s unimaginable to even think about such a feat.
Now, Rahul Bose had made a movie on Poorna – a must watch!
There is a story of the Secretary of Social Welfare, Praveen Kumar who believed in education and Poorna. His single act helped inspiring thousands of school students in Andhra Pradesh.
You may like to watch the movie. It’s like Dangal but not made by Aamir Khan.
Thinking process is an outcome of the type of problems you are solving.
Design Thinking is about better understand the problem with the customer at the center and observe patterns and connecting the dots. It helps in finding new solutions with an open mind and group thinking.
Visualisation or dreaming is about changing the landscape of problem solving i.e. moving out of the forest and creating a structured landscape.
The first programme was launched for building leadership at a rural level by holistic education on farming, industry and value addition by Agrindus led by an ex-IIT professor Dr Karunakaran at Wardha. The model was established after 2 batches of smart farmers by Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Wardha and Mission Samriddhi and now it’s time to bring in sustainability.
38 associates of Intellect participated in the first day itself. Thanks to each one of them for spread the word through their networks and raising the funds for creating next generation educational institutions.
The planned hospital will be a 100-bed facility for performing up to 100 surgeries per day in phase 1. The building is spread over 41 thousand sqft over 4 floors.
This hospital will pick up patients from up to 80 to 100 km radius covering a population of over 3 million people with the mission of eradicating Preventable Blindness.
It was a dream of Bauji to have a high performing global family with roots of compassion and empathy that connected with the roots of our origin i.e. Khekra, Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh.
Before welcoming and creating a new agenda for 2018, let’s celebrate 2017 by understanding some key moments of
A. Fun
B. Achievements
C. Opportunities of learning – experiences of failures
D. Deepening current relationships and new relationships.
E. Conflicts – resolved and unresolved difference of opinions, perspectives and expectations.
F. Decisions – born out of ‘comfort zone’
G. People who you helped or encouraged to move towards realising their potential.
You can make your own personal PowerPoint presentation with the above key moments for slides as a starting point. This can be a personal record book with pictures included in it as well.
In case you do have a little more time, open the link for an annual review.
I observed that various NGOs are doing selfless work in the development of our society. They are doing this work with very frugal money. Many of them are very creative in using this money for the highest impact.
Most of the time, they are alone. We in the industry have exclusive industry bodies like FICCI, CII, MMA, Nasscom, TIE etc., which provide us with networking platforms for learning best practices from each other as well the opportunities to influence government policies.
I want to know if any such platforms exist for positively impacting NGOs.
Or
Is there an opportunity to create an all India platform on the lines of industry platforms like Confederation of Social Impact Organisations (CSIO) with chapters at district levels in India?
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.
