ARUN JAIN'S DIARY

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’.

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/

Freedom from beliefs
Freedom from biases
Freedom from fear of conflicts and repercussions.
Freedom from past successes
Freedom from past failures

Freedom leads to design based on first principles.

1. Thinking process is an outcome of the type of problems you are solving.
2. 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.
3. Visualisation or dreaming is about changing the landscape of problem solving i.e. moving out of the forest and creating a structured landscape.
4. Frameworks help accelerate problem solving.