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May 1, 2024
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Celebrating 2622th Birth Anniversary of Mahavir

Why do we call Mahavir a Spiritual Saint as a ‘Courageous Soldier’? His search or research for 12 years in jungles of Vihar now Bihar is to find true happiness outside materialistic pleasures. His search was for finding ‘The True Truth’. He discovered that the journey of true truth starts from inside self. That internal journey of understanding self requires extreme courage and bravery and that must be reason for naming him ‘Mahavir’.

The inner journey of self has been simplified by him in 3 simple words besides 357 sutras written in Tatvarthsutra. Ahimsa, Anekantvaad and Aprigrah are those 3 simple words which enables one to start this inward journey.

As explained in last year post

  • A1. Ahimsa – no hurt to anyone even at Thinking level before speaking or Action. This is starting point of collaboration.
  • A2. Anekantwad – acceptance of multiple views and respect them. This is starting point of creativity.
  • A3. Aprigrah – Non-attachment to specific offering or object but just commited to purpose. The purity of purpose removes all the fears and provide extreme courage to take on any initiatives.
  • These 3 principles are foundational signposts for inner journey to begin supported by Satya (Principle centric), Sanyam (Perseverance), Tap (deep research) and Tyaag(Letting go or letting go ego).
  • My mind was connecting Inspirational Institutional Leadership with above seven teachings of Mahavir – Collaboration, Creativity, Purpose, Principle centric, Perseverance, Research and letting go ego.
  • Just a point of reflection and connecting self leadership of spirituality and self Leadership of human centric contribution.
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May 1, 2024
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Apr 5, 2024
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The True Sustainability Example : The Life Around Ganges For 3000 Years

Today it’s a most beautiful Sunday of my life on Ganges. It’s a cloudy day. There were rains in night. I am on ‘cruise on Ganges’ moving south and east towards Kolkata. There is vast expanse of mesmerising Ganga or Hooghly river. Both sides of River have history of last 3000 years of Civilisation.

I am experiencing a very diffferent feeling. The knowledge creation, knowledge Abstraction and knowledge application for better Humanity has happened here thru these waters. From Budha to Mahaveer or the sages and authors of Vedas / Upanishads all flown thru these waters or banks of these Ganges. Varanasi to Pataliputra to VarDhaman nagar have witnesssed the growth and decline of Humanity.

During last 6 hundred years, the banks of Ganges have seen the Portuguese coming for trading in early 1500s, followed by British, followed by Dutch, followed by French and then followed by Danish. Five European cultures and their knowledge also helped this region to grow.

The banks of Ganga learnt the design of 46 alphabets of Devanagari script which made the documentation of knowledge possible. It helped in developing sophisticated algorithms of constructing words and sentences, which we called Sanskrit Language. It was to document the ‘Sanskriti’ (संस्कृति) thru out the human development process. It saw the understanding of Farming and clothing. It saw the innovation of Converting a roadside plant with fibre like fruit to convert into threads. Then it started wiring threads into weaving which then forms the basis of Clothing. These clothing then started innovating with colours, prints and embroidery. The 700 Threads per inch became finest form of artistry and many such innovations have come around Ganga and continuing.

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April 5, 2024
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Apr 5, 2024
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Celebrating the 11th Anniversary of Transformation Design Center for Digital and Cognitive Enterprises – 8012 Fintech Design Center

This week, we are celebrating the 11th Anniversary of Transformation Design Center for Digital and Cognitive Enterprises-8012FT, Holistic Design Thinking Space.

We started the Transformative journey of designing a Product and Technology Institution from the service company Polaris since 2009.

During 2009 and 2011, I designed the first Design the Thinking program Unmukt, focused on understanding the art and Science of Human Thinking and trained 1100+ associates at Polaris. We wanted to change the culture of the company from Order Takers to Problem Solvers to Agenda Setters. The initial impact was there but not long-lasting. Then we decided to create an ‘Inspirational Space’ to drive understanding true Customer Desirability by designing Personna Maps and Empathy Maps, observing Patterns and Anti-patterns and then Connecting the dots. 8012 FT, Transformation Design Center for Digital and Cognitive Enterprise, spread over a big expanse of 30,000 Sqft, took 15 months to design on paper by 10 cross-functional designers and 9 months to construct and finish. During 15 months of the Design phase, the team discarded 3 fully designed architecture drawings, including models, before agreeing on the 4th design. It required extreme patience from the design team.

This led to the demerging of Polaris into Polaris as a Software services company and Intellect Design as a Product and technology company in 2014. Here, the journey of ‘Intellect Design’ begins to lead BankTech Wave 5 based on Cloud technology and AI. We launched the First Principle-based Financial Tech Stack, eMACH.ai, the most Comprehensive, Composable & Contextual, last year. eMACH.ai Financial Tech Stack has over 329 Microservices, 535 events and 1757 curated assets for Core Banking, Lending, Wealth, Transaction Banking, Insurance for banks & financial institutions. We take pride that Intellect technology has been adopted by over 300+ global customers across 57 countries.

Today, when we are celebrating our 11th Anniversary, we are satisfied that this centre has contributed to conducting around 500+ DT workshops for Intellect Customers, Corporations, Management and Engineering Faculties, and Government bodies like AICTE, FinBlue, @NIC, NITTTR, DIET, Startup TN, Tamilnadu Industries etc., Academic institutions like Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, Anna University, IIIT Ranchi, IIITDM, Krea University, BIM, SOIL, SRM University, NIET, Madras School of Social Work (MSSW), RMK College and Corporates like Confederation of Indian Industry, IDP, Cavincare, Maverick Systems, Indian Oil Corporation & more.

The center helped in designing holistic Rural development under Mission Samriddhi by conducting over 150 design Thinking sesions on Leadership, Social, Economic, Ecological, Institutional development. It also hosted more than 25000 Transformative Experience Walks.

Very satisfying 11 years of Self-transformation, Intellect transformation, Technology transformation and ecosystem design.

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April 5, 2024
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Travel to Dubai for the launch of Intellect’s ‘First Principles’ Technology suite

My interactions proved to be incredibly enriching. I had the privilege of meeting the COOs and CIOs of three major banks in the UAE, gaining first-hand knowledge about their current strategies. I was particularly impressed by their operational efficiency, evident in their high net margins (around 60%) and low cost-to-income ratios (between 25 and 32%).

Beyond business, I was captivated by the speed of change of the region. The drive from Dubai to Abu Dhabi, a mere 1 hour 10 minutes at 140 km/hour (87 mph) much higher than speed limit of 65 mph in US. I like the way the green trees are planted along the highway with drip irrigation in complete desert.

In Abu Dhabi, the “richer and older brother” of Dubai, I met with a customer of ADIB and engaged in a stimulating discussion about applying first principles thinking.
I could able to visit few Tourist structures built in Abu Dhabi : the Louvre Museum, Qasr-a-watan and the Grand Mosque. All 3 structures are big in size as well with great craftsmanship.

What I liked about the trip that Human can reverse the direction of desertification if they want. I noticed vegetables and fruits from local farms that too in the Desert of the UAE and they were using all bio fertilisers.

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March 1, 2024
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Feb 9, 2024
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37 Top Indian Bankers Converged At Intellect’s Emach.ai & Design Thinking Workshop To Accelerate Digital & Cognitive Enterprise For Exponential Growth

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On October 9th and 10th, we had an amazing two-day marketing event at FT8012. I am happy to share that the eMACH.ai & Intellect Design Thinking Residential Programme for Exponential Growth went really well. Special appreciation to Debal Dutt, Ramanan S V, and Intellect Design Arena Ltd’s Marketing, Sales, and Admin teams for their outstanding work, bringing together the top 37 bankers and industry leaders.

The event was split into two main parts:

Day 1 was all about Design Thinking for Digital Enterprise
Day 2 focused on Design Thinking for Cognitive Enterprise

The event’s core message emphasised the paradigm of Designing Platforms versus Products, utilising the six designer canvases of iTurmeric, which was extremely well-received.

A key highlight was the significant role of Data Design in governing platform and ecosystem design. This underscored iTurmeric’s importance with its core components, Composite Data Objects and Transaction Data Objects, predefined and governed to ensure excellence.

API Designs and Governance is the second canvas essential in crafting exceptional digital platforms and advancing towards expansive ecosystems.

Visual User Journey Design was perceived as an innovative product combined with direct coding and embedded Rules and Events. FPX connected with the other 5 canvases was another interesting capability to bring out a Segmented and personalised expression of the platform.

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February 9, 2024
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Ullas-The Young Achiever 26th Annual Can Do workshop 2023

Today we are celebrating Ullas – The Young Achiever, 26th Annual ‘Can Do’ workshop 2023 at Music Academy, Chennai.

The workshop has over 1100 Teenagers from class 9 from government and corporation schools selected thru proper test. The test was taken by over 5000 students from over 200 schools in Chennai.

This workshop is named as ‘Diary of Dreams’ Workshop where we encourage students to write their dream in small personal diary handed to them among 1100 other students.

This is a beginning of their journey of Design the Thinking to drive higher performance followed by 20 Life skills workshops.

The 20 workshop are divided into 4 Summits.

Summit 1 for 9th standard Summit 2 for 10th standard
Summit 3 for 11th standard
Summit 4 for 12th standard

Each Summit has 5 Workshops conducted by Polaris/Intellect Employees, Ullas Alumni and college students.

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October 2, 2023
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Celebrating Sixth Foundation Day of Mission Samriddhi

Today is the 6th foundation day of Mission Samriddhi. There were more than 70 participants in the workshop who decided on the name for the ‘Purpose’ they are committing to. Finally, it has to go for voting and the name Mission Samriddhi was born.

During that time, Arup Kavan helped me design the ‘Open Architecture’ for Social Development after researching various models of sustainable and scalable social development, including the United Nations. Since we knew social development is Multidimensional and Multifactorial problem, we will need Design Thinking as a methodology for arriving at small successes. MS executive Council also took a ‘Conscious Pause’ in accelerating the projects for the first 3 years. We called this phase of Mission Samriddhi a student phase doing extensive research through experiential learning by spawning multiple projects. This pause has provided us with‘ silent spaces’ to listen to the extreme noises in very large systems of social development.

Early on, the purpose of the organisation got crystallised into just 3 words instead of long sentences – Celebrate, Connect and Catalyse. This simplification helped in such a wonderful alignment among hundreds of like-minded, highly expertise-based professionals.

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November 20, 2022
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