Reflection
The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. Until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.
– Iyanla Vanzant
“Design Thinking allows us to connect Business, Technology and Operations of a bank uniquely and engineer solutions that drive unprecedented value, making it a joyous collaborative experience.”
Arun Jain
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Creativity is about asking Right Questions and Connecting the Dots
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Exploring Forgotten Periods of Prosperity in History for Lessons on Holistic Well-being and Sustainable Societies
We have studied major events in history books. Most of the events are recorded around major wars and change of power. In Indian history, we remember Alexander’s (Sikandar) war and the birth of Chandragupta and then Ashoka Kalinga’s war which was in 2 BC. Then lots of wars between the 11th century till our recent independence.
Between these invasions there were long periods of great prosperity for 300 to 600 years (12 generations to 24 generations) which are not at all documented in our history. These periods are much longer than the entire industrial transformation over the last 175 years.
What were those successes?
A. Systems – Political, Economic, Social
B. Processes – Education and Health
C. Governance – Empowerment and conflict resolutionsThe modern ‘ism’ like Communism and Capitalism have completed just over 150 to 200 years and they start showing that it’s cracking.
How do we retrieve those knowledge systems that may have possible learnings of holistic happiness built around spirituality, expertise and interdependent livelihoods with lesser greed, selfishness, ego and violence?
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Observations in Children’s Entertainment: Exploring the Impact of Fight Scenes on Young Minds
Yesterday, I questioned the fight scenes even in animated movies made for children on Facebook and LinkedIn. I received a lot of insights from your comments. I am documenting a few of the observations here.
1. Fight scenes train a child’s mind for better defence.
2. Fight scenes build ‘violence’ as a key method of resolving any difference of opinions/perspectives/expectations.
3. Violence sells better among audiences which means we as developed human being still love ‘animal’ instinct of physical force over logical conversations (dialogue) to resolve difference of opinions/perspectives.Somewhere I am confused with our ‘expressed’ behaviour i.e. we must live with love as a key uniting force of humanity vs. ‘suppressed’ behaviour of liking physical dominance.
Please share your thoughts on this dichotomy of our behaviours.
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Measuring Learning Capacity in a Person
I need help in understanding
- What is learning Capacity?
- How do we measure Learning Capacity in a Person?
A very interesting dialogue is happening where different Perspectives are emerging.
As per ‘Design The Thinking’ – Thinking mind has six rooms – Imagination room, Learning room, Doing room, Effective room, influencing room and Giving room.
Our mind lives in these six rooms throughout the day. The more imagination leads to the desire to learn more. The more learning gets applied to doing the more experiential learning. Through experiential learning, one learns to become effective as a team member or leader, leading to influencing others. Giving or teaching is the greatest way to increase learning capacity.
The measurement of learning capacity, suggested by a few people through standardised tests, is a good way to Judge. One other way to measure learning capacity is to ask a person to write down a number of questions which come to his mind about a particular problem, not answers. Germination of the right questions may help determine his/her learning capacities.
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The Power Of Love For Empowerment: Amazing Banwasi Seva Ashram
Dinesh Chandra’s recent post sheds light on an initiative that profoundly touched our hearts – Banwasi Seva Ashram in Sonbhadra. This sacred haven has emerged as a beacon of hope, driven by a profound belief in the transformative power of love.
In the past, this region was synonymous with violence and was associated with the Naxalite movement. However, today, the situation has taken a remarkable turn. In some of the villages here, not a single police report has been filed recently, a testament to the positive change that has occurred.
In a world that often seems to believe that violence can only be countered with more violence and that hatred can only be overcome by more hatred, Banwasi Seva Ashram stands as living proof that love possesses the alchemical power to bring about lasting transformation.
I wholeheartedly endorse Dinesh’s invitation to visit this remarkable institution to witness firsthand the profound truth that love has the potential to change destinies. Together, we can make a difference.
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Over 1,100 Young Minds Attend Ullas’ 26th Annual ‘Can Do’ Workshop in Chennai
Today, we celebrated Ullas -The Young Achiever, 26th Annual ‘Can Do’ workshop 2023 at Music Academy, Chennai.
The workshop saw over 1,100 Teenagers from class IX from government and corporation schools selected through proper tests. Over 5,000 students took the test from over 200 schools in Chennai.
This workshop is named the ‘Diary of Dreams’ Workshop, where we encourage students to write their dreams in small personal diaries handed to them among 1100 other students.
This is the beginning of their journey of Design Thinking to drive higher performance, followed by 20 Life skills workshops. Each Summit has five Workshops conducted by Polaris/Intellect Employees, Ullas Alumni and college students.
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Driving Digital Enterprise To Cognitive Institution
IntellectAI kept resonating on 2nd day at Sibos with its CoPilot for Corporate Bankers. Let me share the story of the origin of CoPilot. Intellect started its AI journey 7 years back in the US. We were the first to set up a dedicated team in the US and embark on a ‘Platform’ approach to build AI capabilities aligned to what Financial Services will need in the future.
During the first phase, which we call IntellectAI 1.0, we mastered the art of extracting contextual and sentimental data from Excel Sheets, PDF Documents and Images. We applied triangulation, validation and enrichment to create what we called a Document Intelligence Platform. The technology behind it took 5 years to mature from Build Stage, i.e. 80+ per cent accuracy, to Decision Grade AI with 97+ per cent accuracy. This technology was then successfully applied in the highly document-intense industry space of Policy Underwriting, especially for P&C (Property & Casualty) Insurance. Today, this technology has empowered 20+ customers globally to make better and more informed decisions in Policy Underwriting, Cash Management and Expense Management spaces.
Once we mastered the Document Intelligence Platform, we moved to the next phase of our journey to build Multi-Question Search(MQS) and Triangulation technologies. In the Financial services space, the problems are multi-dimensional with the highest level of complexity associated with the variables around each dimension. Making it Decision Grade required accuracy, referenceability and audit trail for each proposed inference. This is what our next-generation technologies were able to deliver. And this is what we christened as CoPilot, ready for adoption across multiple industry segments.
The largest Norwegian Fund adopted IntellectAI’s CoPilot for ESG to create the ESG Risk Wheel, which is a combination of 150 unique sets of questions triaged from data from 8000+ companies.
Our CoPilot for Corporate Banking is targeted to leverage the power of AI in the Commercial Banking space. It seamlessly connects with Microsoft Azure OpenAI and delivers the high octane of Prompt Engineering and GenAI in order to boost accelerated revenue growth with reduced operational costs.
We are already receiving huge interest from global banks asking the right questions to bring more clarity and explore opportunities in their journey to become a Cognitive Institution from a Digital Enterprise.