What is Design Public?
Design Public is a series of conversations about design and innovation in the public interest.This blog is curated by the Center for Knowledge Societies, the innovation consulting firm that guides the establishment of the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation.
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Tag Archives: jugaad
How everybody met the(ir) Makers – Pecha Kucha #27
Pecha Kucha Night is always fast, eye-opening, exciting and close to an adrenaline rush in a vaguely academic (even if partially industrious this time around) sense. Keeping a track of it successfully would work if you had super-fast internet speeds, … Continue reading
Case Studies of Systematic Innovation
While talk of innovation in India seems to focus largely on Jugaad and Frugal Innovation, those examples don’t give you the complete story. Systematic, routinized innovation can also be found in India, even though examples of these can be hard … Continue reading
Innovation and the Modern Indian Conglomerate
A report, now several years old, written by my friend Kristen Bound describes India as an uneven innovator. I’ve been thinking about that characterization over the last several weeks as I’ve met with senior-middle managers in several corporations in India, … Continue reading
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Tagged conglomerate, entreprenuers, frugal innovation, India, innovation, intrapreneur, jugaad
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Why India needs to think bigger than jugaad
I came across a blog post by Idris Mootee, a business strategist and innovation specialist, that talks about the severe limitations of the whole jugaad discourse, which has now almost developed into an obsession. Mootee writes, Let’s start with the … Continue reading
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Tagged culture of innovation, innovation, innovation paradigm, jugaad, value creation
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Video: Imagining India as an Innovation Society
Watch this brief video summary of the third panel at the last Design Public Conclave, held in New Delhi on April 20th, 2012. The discussion focused on the current state of innovation in India, it’s over-dependence on less sophisticated innovation … Continue reading
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Tagged Design Public Conclave, frugal innovation, India, innovation, innovation society, jugaad
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A Story About the Aakash and India’s Tech Industry
All last year, we heard about the Aakash tablet and how India had created history by producing the world’s cheapest tablet computer. Launched at the low price of $35 USD, it promised to transform India’s educational institutions by bringing computers … Continue reading
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Tagged Aakash tablet, frugal innovation, jugaad, Kapil Sibal
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Bottleneck Innovation in India
Just as I finished writing my piece on Jugaad and Frugal Innovation in India earlier this morning, I came across this blog article on bottlenecks in India and the lack of innovation therein. The author, Prasad, provides an amusing anecdote … Continue reading
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Tagged India, innovation, jugaad, recourcefulness
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Leveraging Culture to Build Sustainable Businesses
Throughout its history, India has been the recipient of a wide variety of outside forces that have sought to transform and improve its culture in all manner of different ways, now more than ever. Its radical economic transformation since achieving … Continue reading
India Needs to Innovate: James Crabtree interviews Anand Mahindra
I just re-watched this excellent Financial Times video interview where James Crabtree talks to Anand Mahindra about the state of innovation in India, where he talks about jugaad, frugal innovation, and ‘Indovation’ in general, especially his skepticism of so-called ‘Indian … Continue reading
CKS’ Certificate in Innovation Management
With Shreya Anand On the 19th of April 2012, the Center for Knowledge Societies conducted its first Certificate in Innovation Management (CIM), an innovation training workshop designed to provide an introduction to a basic theory and practice of innovation. The … Continue reading
