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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:

• "Product and service innovation", Executive General Management Program (EGMP),  IIM Bangalore, April 24-25, 2025
• "Innovation and business models", for Infosys Global Delivery Leadership Program, IIM Bangalore, March 6, 2025 (Program director: Prof. Padmini Srinivasan)
• "Design Thinking & innovation" for the General Management Program for Tata Motors, IIM Bangalore, March 4, 2025 (Program director: Prof Shainesh)
• Mentoring action learning project teams, for Mercedes-Benz R&D India, IIM Bangalore, Feb-March, 2025  
• "Mindfulness" for Infosys Global Delivery Leadership Program, IIM Bangalore, Feb 24, 2025 (Program director: Prof. Padmini Srinivasan)
• "Building systematic organizational innovation capabilities," for Strategic Management of Innovation Program, IIM Bangalore, Feb 18, 2025 (Program director: Prof. Sai Yayavaram)
• "Building innovation stamina: for individuals and teams," a talk at the Engineering Week event at Honeywell, Bangalore, Feb 17, 2025
• "Limits of thought: An exploration," a talk and dialogue facilitation at Retreat House, Bandra, organized by KFI Mumbai, Feb 15, 2025
• "Understanding innovation and design thinking", a Leadership development program for Novo Nordisk, IIM Bangalore, Feb 10, 2025 (Program directors: Prof. Debolina Dutta and Prof. Shubhabrata Das)
• "Building systematic organizational innovation capabilities", for Mercedes-Benz R&D India, IIM Bangalore, Jan 28, 2025 (Program director: Prof. Sai Yayavaram)
• "ENT607: Managing Technological Innovation", a half-sem course at IIT Bombay, Jan-Feb 2025  

2025 Highlights