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1. DESIGN SOLUTIONS
Prepared By:
Kushal Kshatriya (08CE37)
Krunal Doshi (08CE71)
Nayan Jain (08CE46)
Vatsal Doshi (08CE36)
Pratik Vyas (08CE107)
Guide:
Mr. Kamlesh Joshi
BIT, Vadodara.
BITs Edu Campus, VARNAMA,
VADODARA.

2. WHO IS A CONTRIBUTOR ?
•One who makes a difference in the lives of people
around him
•One who thinks of giving something
•Promotes win - win situation
•Believes in man-making rather than polishing only the
outside (when there is nothing inside)
•Thinks of “we” and not “I”

3. INTRODUCTION
•Contributors approach the various situations in their life and work place
with a unique mindset. This mindset we call, the ‘Contributor Mindset’.
•The first aspect of the Contributor Mindset is the Contributor’s willingness
and capacity to find solutions
•When faced with a challenge, the Contributor’s first response is
“Can we find a solution?”
•But this is not all. The Contributor also “finds a solution”.
•Contributor develops the capacity to find solutions through continuous
practice and learning from other Contributors

4. CONCEPT EXPLORATION

5. Do Not Keep Rigid Mindset

6. Rigidity exists in society in form of
• People – Henry Ford on Model T.
– “Available in any colour as long as it is black”
• System – Bureaucracy at work place
– BSNL : Bhai Saheb Nahi Lagega
• Ideas (very critical !)
– “Nobody can pass the sound barrier”
– “Everything that can be invented has been
invented”
– “Our culture is doomed.”

7. Think Of Alternate Solutions/Ideas

8. Generating new possibilities is the first step in
creating innovations.
HOW do you discover and create possibilities?
• Start with yourself
– You probably have millions of good ideas located right
there in your head, already. You just have to get hold of
them and pull them out.
• Learn about community
– You need to gather enough information to form an overall
picture of people's interests, struggles, similarities, values,
and differences

9. • Think about the future
– we can make some educated guesses. And those guesses
may help us figure out next steps that work for our
communities.
• Get beyond hopelessness
– difficult time being creative and thinking about new
possibilities
• Be courageous
– In order to be creative you may have to be courageous.
You may have to dare to think in ways that are different
from others

10. Orville Wright Wilbur Wright
INVENTORS OF THE AIRPLANE
“The airplane stays up in the air
because it doesn’t have the time to
fall…”

11. • Both the Wright Brothers never graduated from High
School.
• In 1889 the Wright Brothers started the West Side News
• It was a weekly newspaper that Wilbur and Orville Wright
published briefly in 1889 and 1891
• In 1893 The Wright Brothers started a bicycle shop that
allowed them to rent and repair bicycles.
• Only 5 of the Wright Brothers’ bicycles exist to this day.

12. • They gained the mechanical skills essential for their
success by working for years in their shop with
printing presses, bicycles, motors, and other
machinery.
• Their work with bicycles in particular influenced their
belief that an unstable vehicle like a flying machine
could be controlled and balanced with practice.
• This shows their continuous dedication towards work
and improving their skills.
• When the world was thinking of ways to speed up
travel on Land and Water, they came up with a
completely new idea of travel by Air !!!

13. First Lift Off by Mankind
On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the
Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air
machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot
aboard.

14. • They further experimented in their own wind tunnel
after being succeed in their first flight.
• On October 20, 1904 the Wright Brothers flew the
first complete circle in an aircraft.
• The flight was 1 minute, 36 seconds and covered
4,080 feet.
• In 1905, On October 5, Wilbur made an amazing flight
in which he circled the field 30 times in 39 minutes
for a total distance of 24 1/2 miles and the flight
discontinued because he ran out of fuel.

15. Contribution
In 1903, we were
See where we are today !!!
The journey would have been longer if they didn't.

16. Don’t Give Excuses

17. When facing a problem
• Non – Contributors give all type of excuses whenever
some problem crops up which they know is going to push
them to the extremes.
• For them, the glass is ‘always half empty’.
• Contributors, on the other hand, have a Will-Do attitude
(not just can-do). The glass is ‘always half full’ for them.
• Having a such an attitude is actually about making a
decision to look to the solution rather than just the
problem.
• How to cultivate a ‘can-do’ attitude?

18. Can-Do Attitude of a Contributor
• I can do everything, if its important enough for me to do.
• I may not do all at once but I can do everything.
• I may not be best at everything but I can do everything.
• There will be limitations but I can do everything.
• I’ll need help but I can do everything.

19. Ratan Tata
• Ratan Naval Tata is the present chairman of Tata
Sons and therefore, Tata Group.
• He is also the chairman of major Tata companies.

20. • He had determined to set up a plant for Tana
Nano in India.
• He faced major opposition and struggled with
The land acquisition controversy, acquisition
of the proposed Nano factory of Tata Motors
at [Singur] in Hooghly district, West
Bengal, India.
• Despite of all the problems faced by him, he
didn’t lose hope and soon found a growing
opportunity in Sanand, Gujarat.
• His major concern all the way was not just his
own profit but comfort to the middle-class.

21. Fear Of Failure

22. Case Study 1: THOUGHT OF LIGHT
•In 1879, Edison discovered
that a carbon filament in an
oxygen-free bulb glowed but
did not burn up for 40 hours.
• Edison eventually produced a
bulb that could glow for over
1500 hours.
Thomas Alva Edison

23. Meaning of Failure

24. Case Study 2: Henry Ford failed

25. Ford’s failures at a glance
• He “burned” through all the money from his first group of
investors without producing a car
• He eventually produced a car and raised another
$60,000 in share capital, but his Detroit Auto Company
went bankrupt
• In the 1920s, Henry Ford refused to update the Model T
car, leading sales to fall dramatically
• Ford tried to launch a political career, but never
succeeded

26. Contributor’s Mantra for “SUCCESS”
"Failure is simply an
opportunity to begin
again, this time more
intelligently."
- Henry Ford

27. We need not look very far…
• We have recently witnessed some brave,
brilliant Indians who displayed the essential
qualities of a contributor.
• They crossed disciplinary boundaries and
gave up comfortable positions in their lives to
contribute to their nation’s well-being.

28. Arvind Kejriwal
• Joined Tata Steel right after his graduation from IIT Kharagpur.
• Voluntarily resigned from the IRS (Indian Revenue Service) as
Joint Commissioner in IT Dept.
• Founded Parivartan, a Delhi based citizens’ movement.
• Started Public Cause Research Foundation.
• Spearheaded an awareness campaign for RTI across India.
• An active participant in the movement for the enactment of
Jan Lokpal Bill.

29. Kiran Bedi
• The first woman officer in the IPS.
• Voluntarily retired from the post of Director General.
• Host and judge of the popular TV series "Aap Ki Kachehri“.
• Set up Navjyoti India Foundation and India Vision
Foundation.
• One of the prominent members of the India Against
Corruption (IAC).

30. Aruna Roy
• Resigned as a civil servant in the Indian Administrative
Service.
• Founded and heads the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathana.
• A prominent leader of the Right to Information movement.
• A member of the National Advisory Council.

31. Thank You
HOPE THIS INSPIRED YOU