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Innovation capacity & culture building

Design Thinking for superior customer experience

Mindfulness

Upcoming workshop: TBD

Strategic management of technology and innovation (IIM Bangalore) - course page (2019-2024)

Managing innovation and IP for entrepreneurs (IIT Bombay) - course page (2016-2024)

Books:

"8 steps to innovation" book resources

Order: "8 steps to innovation: Going from jugaad to excellence" on Amazon

Mindfulness book resources

Order: "Mindfulness: Connected with the real you" on Amazon 

Recent blogs/podcasts/research papers:

• Insights from a serial entrepreneur - Gupshup CEO Beerud Sheth's perspective, September 1, 2024
• My favourite quotes from Daniel Kahneman, April 6, 2024
• Psychedelics-Mindfulness relationship: My 3 takeaways from Roland Griffiths' perspective, March 24, 2024
• Culture of innovation: 3 attributes and 4 kinds of evidence, March 17, 2024
• "Episode #11: Mindfulness as learning to see impermanence", podcast discussion between Gauri and Vinay, Feb 21, 2024 (10 min)
• "A critical review of journey-centric mindfulness," a paper presentation at the second International Research Conference on mindfulness, IIM Bodh Gaya, Feb 9-10, 2024.
• My 3 takeaways from Agastya's "Student, teachers, and AI" conference at Kuppam, Jan 26, 2024

Recent/Upcoming events:

• "Design Thinking", India Health and Climate Resilience (IHCR) Fellows, Blockchain for Impact, Aug 27, 2024
• "Design Thinking" Open program at IIM Bangalore in collaboration with Prof. Ganesh Prabhu, Aug 23-24, 2024
• "Innovation and design thinking" Advanced Leadership Program, TAFE, IIM Bangalore, Aug 13, 2024
• "Management of innovation", Advanced Management Program, IIM Bangalore, July 22 & 27, 2024
• "Design Thinking" part of Business Management Program for Defence Officers at IIM Bangalore, July 13, 2024
• "Design Thinking" for executives of SBI Life, Navi Mumbai, July 10, 2024
• "Problem discovery and ideation" for Master Trainers at Agastya International Foundation, Kuppam, June 19-20, 2024
• "Innovation & Design Thinking" Tata AIA executives, organized by Tata Management Training Center, Pune, May 15, 2024
• "Design Thinking for superior customer experience", Operations and IT executives of SBI Life, Mumbai, April 8 & 16, 2024
• "Design Thinking", for teachers at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan CBSE schools, April 4, 2024 
• "Managing innovation" ENT610 course at IIT Bombay March-April 2024
• "Mindfulness: recognizing wasteful thoughts", Leadership Development Program for NTPC at IIM Bangalore, Feb 22, 2024  

2024 Highlights