Community Reflection Social Development
Nov 1, 2022
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The 6th 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 1, 2022
Reflection
Nov 1, 2022
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The Patterns of making India in the World Cup in the next 10 years

Last 0.1% is what makes to last 32 teams in World Cup football.

I am curious to know what are the elements which makes the team to get to World Cup level.

The 140 crore India does not even get entry into this world event. Yes I know we can take shelters under various umbrellas like
A. India Football is overshadowed by Cricket or
B. No one supports India Football or
C. India does not have enough good players etc etc.

We have observed that most of the supports have pivoted around very niche place says Chennai for Chess or Tennis, Hyderabad for Badminton or Haryana for Wrestling and Boxing etc.

What are the Patterns of making India in World Cup in next 10 years

worldcup2022 #team #algorithms

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November 1, 2022
Design Thinking Reflection Social Development Technology
Oct 10, 2022
Blogs

Indias first Assistive Technology Start Up Awards by AssisTech Foundation in partnership with NASSCOM Foundation

On 14th Oct, I had the opportunity to present India’s first Assistive Technology Start-Up Awards by AssisTech Foundation (ATF) in partnership with NASSCOM Foundation at IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP) !

As a part of its 10X programme, IIT-Madras Research Park is betting big in the Assistive Technology (AT) space and intends to help create several start-ups in the coming years.

This initiative focuses on supporting & scaling indigenously built, affordable assistive technology products/solutions for India and the world to empower all Persons with Disability.

As a small step towards this direction, IITMRP organised a conference (13 th to 15 th October) a one-of-a-kind event bringing together the academia, industry and end users of Assistive Technologies,that is persons with disabilities. This conference was having 20+ presenters, 8 workshops and 80+ exhibits.

Many congratulations AssisTech Foundation IITMRP, AssisTech Foundation, Nasscom and all the winners of the first AssisTech Awards.

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October 10, 2022
Design Thinking Reflection
Oct 1, 2022
Blogs

The 4 Design Competencies

I observed there are 4 Design Competencies

  1. Design Curiosity
  2. Design Experience
  3. Design Solution for simplification
  4. Design Robust Product

The Design Curiousity is related to ‘observe Status Quo’ and asking question – is there any better way to do it?

Design Experience is about imagining ‘what can go wrong’ besides being SIMPLE.

Design Solution is about Holistic understanding of the ecosystem and available Technologies and apply them to ‘CONNECT THE NON OBVIOUS DOTS’.

Design Robust Product is all about MICRO DETAILING of the delivery processes and wiring them.

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October 1, 2022
Banking Design Thinking Fintech Reflection Technology
Oct 1, 2022
Blogs

iGTB at Sibos 2022 COCB

Manish Maakan, Uppili Srinivasan (Upps), Atanu Ganguli, Andrew England, Debal Dutt and team Intellect Global Transaction Banking | iGTB great show at Sibos 2022.

Upps, I love the succinct 7-minute articulation of COCB – Consumerisation of Commercial Banking (our core theme at Sibos), wired with domain and technology.

The sharpness of 6 tenets of COCB – 1. Hyper Personalisation, 2. Real-time, Connected journeys, 3. Action-triggering insights, 4. Immediacy, 5. Desire & trust-based decision making, 6. Friction-free experience – even at scale, which the banks need to understand and have a gameplan to embrace

3 dimensions of Technology architecture – Composability, Contextuality and Hyperscale along with Data has woven very well.

The need for a Platform and Intellect ability to compose products based on end consumer needs leading to a HOLISTIC experience vs ‘experience at the door’ is captured very well in your video.

I also like 5 imperative for Banks (Revenue Growth, Revenue Protection, Cost avoidance, risk protection and risk elimination) as a driver for choosing Intellect. Congratulations.

iGTB #sibos2022 #COCB #designthinking #intellect

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October 1, 2022
Design Thinking Reflection Technology
Sep 1, 2022
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Review on the book The Code Breaker

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.

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September 1, 2022
Banking Design Thinking Fintech Reflection Technology Workplace
Aug 1, 2022
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Reminiscing Polaris journey Foundation Day

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.

#Intellect #designthing #belief #foundationday

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August 1, 2022
Design Thinking Reflection Technology
Aug 1, 2022
Blogs Videos

Design Thinking

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.

It’s just 12 minutes video.

#designthinking #learning #creative #culture #intellect #schoolofdesignthinking #Missionsamriddhi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxeFR4qGOKA
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August 1, 2022
Reflection
Jul 1, 2022
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The power of abstract to Touch and feel

There is a series in Netflix called ABSTRACT.

If you have sometime watch Season 2/Episode 1 -Olifur – The Art of Design.

The power of abstract to Touch and feel.

Lots of our creations in software are abstract from understanding the ‘untold beauty hidden beneath the layers of coding’. Customer experiences few actions out of the beauty of Data architecture, Beauty of Flow pipes and corridors thru which data flows in form work for Actors, beauty of wired rules in form of logic which drives few microsecond decisions, beauty of design of hyper personalised experiences etc etc.

That’s all abstract. How do we bring beneath the iceberg is nothing but Art.

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July 1, 2022
Design Thinking Reflection Technology
Jun 12, 2022
Blogs

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

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June 12, 2022
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