kishor Jagirdar

VISION KARNATAKA Foundation  A THINK TANK GROUP was created after 10 months of grueling efforts in bringing together a highly competent team of international standards from various domains and diverse background to deliberate on research and Analytical approach to a sustainable development of the state of Karnataka and also act as the implementation facilitation partner in order to accelerate growth through innovations based on local economies.The vision karnataka 2040 document is being implemented via this platform The team comprises of high calibre  people from industry leadership to functional leaders. The Core Team meeting on 23rd June 2018  passed the resolution to set the agenda for next 12 months in focusing the district development activities in collaboration with the various development programmes on socio Economic change on the lines of United Nations Sustainable Goals Sri Amarnayan (IAS Rtd) was elected as the President o...

What is Design Thinking? It’s a practical way of solving problems  by "building up" ideas, with few, or no, limits on breadth during a "brainstorming" phase. This helps reduce fear of failure in the participant(s) and encourages input and participation from a wide variety of sources in the ideation phases. The phrase "thinking outside the box" has been coined to describe one goal of the brainstorming phase and is encouraged, since this can aid in the discovery of hidden elements and ambiguities in the situation and discovering potentially faulty assumptions. When design principles are applied to strategy and innovation the success rate for innovation dramatically improves. Design Thinking is a methodology used by designers to solve complex problems, and find desirable solutions for clients. Design Thinking draws upon logic, imagination, intuition, and systemic reasoning, to explore possibilities of what could be, and to create desired ou...

This is an interaction that I recently had with Kanchana Dwarkanath - A dynamic News Correspondent with Times of India and Times Jobs I have put forth the same questions and reply from my end along with the link to the article published in Times of India recently    http://www.techgig.com/readnews.php?category=Other+Technology+news&tgnews_link=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent.timesjobs.com%2Fskill-knowledge-and-ability-is-key-for-entrepreneurs-jagirdar%2F&tg_type=rss&tgnews_id=46601 1) In the current market why is opting for entrepreneurship a good option. Post 2008 global recession the market dynamics have changed forever. Disruptive innovations have flooded the market and life cycle of organizations have come down to just 4- 5 years of business relevance, this includes and Products/services as well. In this circumstance the competencies to cope with this rapid change and survive needs multi tasking skills, networking and business knowledge abundantly to stay a...

It’s a long way to come along for dreams to be translated into reality.  Especially if it’s a dream that is being brought into reality that will in turn translate multitude of dreams into reality. Yes!! Isn’t that interesting?   14 years ago this dream was conceived to assist in the space of innovation where a)       Ideation can be translated into demonstrated services or products using an incubator. b)       To become an accelerator and a catalyst to entrepreneurs and organizations in sustaining . c)       To bring a change by innovating and changing the habits of people, thinking differently to excel. d)      Stimulating change by approaching things in Creative and Open space culture. e)       Creating a replicable viral effect at the grassroot level and impacting social Change After many years of various trial and errors; fin...

The market dynamics have changed for ever and since 2008 there is a churning that is happening in the undercurrent across all the aspects of trade , industry, social life style as well as the political structure.No longer do we have the incremental innovation that enables and evolves the industry from where is was to where it can go with the contemporary times and changing demands.Instead what we see now emerging on the landscape from the last 2 years, disruption innovation seems to have overtaken the world. The industry gaping for fresh ideas and thinking that is totally out of the box for retaining the market place and survival suddenly the focus is now on the universities where the creative energy is bubbling with possibilities and potentially as a haven for the innovators who are young and uncluttered from the old world model of workings. This is where innovation is now ruling the roost and even major innovation giants like IBM is making a beeline to such campuses where the...

It is not the fittest who will survive the change but those who are having the ability to adopt to change – Charles Darwin Understanding the change that is hitting all of us and managing it has become almost the primary task to survive as a business enterprise The current change that is engulfing every industry with market volatility, rules being made and broken on almost daily basis, we are witnessing unprecedented churn that will bring in new breed of start ups and many of the old will sink. Many more even in the fortune 500 may not live to exist in the next 5 years. This is not to be mistaken as a passing storm but a permanent changed weather. Socially people are waking up to the fact all that we have known in the last 60 years and identified ourselves with in terms of prosperity, life styles, challenges, dependence, status symbol etc are completely disconnected with our natural support systems. Across the coffee table I find the discussion on ‘Greed’ quite intriguing as thi...