Highlights and reflections by Vinay Dabholkar on his work as a catalyst in three areas (1) Design Thinking (2) Strategic innovation and (3) Mindfulness during April to June 2019.

1. Catalign Quarterly
Apr-Jun 2019
Highlights and reflections
Vinay Dabholkar
Catalign Innovation Consulting
vinay@catalign.com
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2. Focus Areas
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Design
Thinking
Strategic
Innovation
Mindfulness
on the go

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In this Design Thinking workshop, managers at Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited applied the key DT principles of
empathy, challenge framing and rapid prototyping to their
context.
Design Thinking workshop, HAL
Management Academy, Bangalore

4. Design Thinking for Novo Nordisk
managers at IIMB
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Senior Managers from various functions of Novo
Nordisk, India (a leading global player in diabetic drugs)
creating a journey-map.

5. Entrepreneurs and family business
owners frame their biggest challenge
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Participants of this program for entrepreneurs and
family biz owners (MPEFB) at IIMB share their biggest
business challenge with their colleagues.

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Asia-Pac leadership team from ADP representing teams
from Australia, China and India present their
prototypes to address their key business challenges.
Design Thinking at ADP, Hyderabad

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DT for Atos global leaders, Bangalore
“Do you feel boxed in your career? We will
help you come out of the box.” This is what a
team is trying to show through this role play
and prototypes. Organizer: HEC, Paris.

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Strategic Management of Technology
and Innovation at IIM Bangalore
Ideation in progress in the course I am teaching at IIM
Bangalore in June-August term. Students are from two
programs: PGPEM (part-time) and PGP (full-time). We are
exploring the principles and practices in three areas:
Management of technology, management of innovation &
strategic decision making.

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Mindfulness workshop, Bangalore

10. Articles / Podcasts
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• Mot-chat #1: Interview with Zunder Lekshmanan,
CTO, OpenTurf technologies
• Mot-chat #2: A master-class with Rishikesha
Krishnan, Professor of Strategy at IIMB
• Understanding self-deception through Nayantara’s
necklace (part-1 and part-2)
• Empathy tips from Kahneman’s “Adversarial
collaboration”

11. Thank You
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vinay@catalign.com
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