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.

Rajesh Saxena Rajeev Kakar Sandeep Chouhan Banesh Prabhu Manish Maakan

March 1, 2024

First Principle Design eMACH.ai anniversary

IntellectAI, leveraging advanced technologies such as NLP, Computer Vision, and Big Data, has successfully tackled the challenge of extracting contextual intelligence from complex documents set. This innovative approach, employing proprietary domain-specific models, algorithms, and GenerativeAI, has paved the way for developing DIMS – Document Intelligence Management System. iFABRIC DIMS Platform is solving four frames of mystery.

Frame 1 : Document Classification
Frame 2 : Document Extraction
Frame 3 : Extracted data Accuracy and Validation
Frame 4 : Enriched Decision Grade data

Currently, many Fintech companies are solving each use case separately similar to early stage RDBMS companies during 1980 to 1990s era. Since my 37 years in Banking industry, I believe Banks need trusted and Integrated platform on which multiple Contextual experiences can be designed like Autonomous Credit underwriting, Large interdependent data of Trade financing, Right and compliant advise for HNIs, Embedded AI Agents to streamline operations, complex GRC alerts and embedded compliance during customer advise/ risk reporting.

All the above use cases are interdependent and require a designed approach to build a cohesive Cognitive Enterprise.

At eMACH.ai anniversary, our iFABRIC platform has won over 18 mandates from global P&C insurance, Wealth, and Investment banks and large corporates. We are running ‘Proof of Impact’ in over 40 progressive customers as of now.

I must congratulate the IntellectAI team, who applied the first principles of design thinking to demystify complex 51 step AI use case design process to just 5 step Algorithm for creating Business Impact embedded AI.

Intellect Design Arena Ltd Banesh Prabhu Deepak Dastrala Hari Menon Laila Beane Sandeep Tandon

hashtag#IntellectAI #eMACH.ai hashtag#FirstPrincipleDesign hashtag#iFABRIC hashtag#Success hashtag#IntellectAI

February 1, 2024

Post on Seatle visit update

efficiency built in 1961.

The middle floor of the tower rotates to give 360 degree view. Obviously entire floor with few hundred people has weight of over 125 Tons. This floor rotates with just 1.5 Horse Power(HP) motor. The home mixer has motor of 1.0 HP to 2.0 HP.

What a High Performance Design more than 60 years ago!!!

August 1, 2023

Conducting session for All India Council of Technical Education AICTE

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.
#leadership #design #engineering #engineering #management #education #designthinking #aicte #intellect

June 10, 2022

The Pixar Story

I watched ‘The Pixar Story’ on Disney+ Hotstar. The 90-minute movie is very inspirational on how they completely changed the animation industry.

The power of human genius and commitment! I did not know George Lukas of Star Trek fame was also behind it.

They produced 7 movies in a row that redefined the creativity in animated movies:
1. The Toy story
2. A Bug’s Life
3. Toy Story 2
4. Monsters Inc
5. Finding Nemo6. The Incredibles
7. Cars

Highly recommended!
Obviously, many educators used movies as a tool to ‘inspire natural learning’ among their students. We as a leader in the industry are educators in many ways. We inspire our employees and customers and must have used some movies; like I use old Hindi movies ‘Bawarchi’ of Rajesh Khanna fame to explain the Power of Influence or #servantleadership etc.

I would like to invite your stories where you used such movies to inspire and accelerate learning. I want to compile the repertoire of various real-time experiences.

#learning #creativity #education #movies #educators #harvard #oxford #iimahmedabad #iimcalcutta #iimb #wharton #parsons #stanforduniversity #insead

May 12, 2022

Panchayats – the hidden lever of accelerated holistic development

I grew up with the assumption that ‘Panchayat’ consists of 5 ‘Panchs’ and 1 ‘Sarpanch’. Their function is linked more with judicial case resolution of the villages.

I learnt about the real purpose of a Panchayat in 2016 after studying the constitution. A Panchayat is equivalent to a local governance body as per all other countries. There are more than 900 million people who come under its governance and thus it holds a key for holistic development of a country. It consists of 11 to 17 wards members.

1. A ward member is the elected member for 100 to 500 families. He is responsible for developments at the smallest unit levels.
2. Sarpanch is also known as the President of the Panchayat in a few states like Kerala.
3. A Panchayat is responsible for preparing its development plan and they have to submit it in the Panchayat portal. The Panchayat gets a direct funding as per development plans submitted to their accounts.
4. A Panchayat also has the power to levy local taxes or sell forest produce in tribal areas to generate their own sources of revenues. The larger Panchayats near the cities get housing society local taxes as well as professional taxes. They are substantially richer Panchayats compared to remote Panchayats.
5. National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) is a central body for the capability building of Panchayats.
6. Mission Samriddhi has launched the ‘India Panchayat Forum’ to work on development at grass root level.
7. CDP – Cluster Development Program designed by MS has 7 frames for the development of Panchayats.
– D1 – Personal Development (Leadership development, Self-belief, Visualisation)
– D2 – Social Development (Education, Health, Infrastructure, Social Justice, Equality)
– D3 – Economic Development (Agricultural, Allied services, SHG, FPOs, Financial and Digital literacy etc)
– D4 – Ecological Development (Water, Soil, Forest)
– D5 – Gram Panchayat Development Plans (GPDP) education and planning including low cost/no cost plans
– D6 – Monitoring and Governance
– D7 – Stakeholder management
8. Mission Samriddhi works with sectoral experts as well as Development Accelerators (NGOs, Corporates and Governments) to drive CDP at various district levels. The fellows on-ground facilitate continuous education and nudging at the Panchayat level.

Today is National Panchayat Day. I invite few corporates along with their employees to celebrate, connect and catalyse Panchayats. You can write to me or Ram at Ram.Pappu@intellectdesign.com

#localgovernment #designcommunity #leadership

April 12, 2022