I am reading a book ‘The Code Breaker’ written by Walter Isaacson. It’s about CRISPER the gene editing tool, which is changing the way Biology worked till now.
I read only 150 pages till now which describes the journey of Doudna and charpentier, over 25 years which resulted into final Technology of Gene Editing using CRISPER- CAS9. I love the story telling of Walter and could feel the moments of discovery, connecting the dots to paint big picture and building the technology itself.
I can relate this book to the way at Intellect we built two technologies – Fabric Data Services as a platform and Turmeric technology. We experienced similar ‘moments of Aha’ when we connected little dots to paint the big picture.
It was 24th July, 1993, Polaris Software Lab Ltd got its registration to commence software business.
We got our first international projects from Data General Inc, Raleigh to support their File system. Data General was then a mid range Computer company. We setup first ODC for them at 3rd Floor Carex Center.
Second business was from Saudi Arabia from Saudi American Bank. We supported their client server banking application.
Third contract was from Switzerland with JWS partnership.
The 4th large project was from Software Sidoun, Germany.
The 5th very, very large project was from NEC Japan for writing component based Core banking system. It was led from their Silicon Valley office and it was 100 million dollar contract over 4 years during 1998.
We setup our UK office at Reading, Singapore office, Frankfurt office, Fremont Office, Atlanta office, NJ office, Tokyo office in first 5 years of our operations
All initiatives were bootstraped without any investor support.
It was sheer power of Talent, who believed in sheer entrepreneurial spirit and made the company grew at CAGR of 105 percent over first 7 years which led it to being classified amongst Top 200 Fastest growing companies of the world.
Today Intellect is continuing ‘Path breaking journey in financial technology’ by letting go services business and reinventing its brand to ‘Intellect’ from Polaris.
We let go 2 things at the same time demonstrating Courage of Leadership team at Intellect
1. Cash generating business of Services
2. Globally very well known brand.
I am dedicating this day to BELIEF, Courage, Innovation, intense Customer focus and Power of one intellect team. I draw my daily dose of energy from all of you. Thank you.
I did not realise that design Thinking video has crossed 3,40,000 views.
In this video, I shared my experiences of difference between ‘DESIGN THE THINKING’ and Process of Design Thinking. For bringing effectiveness to the Design thinking, we need to prepare the soil of the mind by ‘designing the thoughts’ in a structured manner.
It’s thinking design that begins the shift in ‘mental models’ to drive change in organisation culture which can challenge the business as usual and build creative collaboration to drive final finish products and services.
In this Video, I tried to document and synthesised five core capabilities of human mind as Imagination mind, Learning mind, Result Mind, Effective Mind and Influencing mind.
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.
Happy to share that AICTE Leadership team will be in FT 8012 Design Center for 2-day Design Thinking workshop on Saturday and Sunday. AICTE the top most governing body for all technical education in the country is keen in leveraging the approach of Design The Thinking (mental model) for driving greater learning outcomes in academic institutions. This will result in bringing our Design Thinking module into the main stream curriculum as well.
You can watch the Launch Address of Prof. Anil D Sahasrabudhe in the YouTube Link.
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.
