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

1. Catalign Quarterly
Jan-Mar 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
Culture of
Innovation
Mindfulness
on the go

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In this co-innovation workshop, an account team and their
client applied Design Thinking principles to explore the
question: How might we make innovation process more
effective?
Co-innovation workshop at Atos, Mumbai

4. “Fostering a culture of innovation”
workshop at Karix, Chennai
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It was a pleasure to facilitate a 2-day workshop
“Fostering a culture of innovation” at Chennai. The
above picture shows some of the expectations
gathered from participants.

5. A Design Thinking workshop for CXOs
@ Evry, Bangalore
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We explored metaphor based framing of some of the
top organizational challenges and also defined 1-day
experiments to test some of hypothesis.

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Prof. Ganesh Prabhu and I facilitated fourth 2-day
Design Thinking workshop at IIMB this academic year.

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DT for Healthcare professionals
Journey mapping, challenge framing and ideation for
doctors and other healthcare professionals at IIMB.

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DT for Real Estate developers
Members of CREDAI (Confederation of Real Estate
Developers Association of India) finding ways to enhance
the end-to-end experience for their customers at IIMB.

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DT for Senior Managers of Atos-Syntel
Participants presenting their mock ups in the form of
wireframes, storyboards and dashboards at IIMB

10. Co-innovation in the new normal
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It was an honour to participate in the panel at Evry India
along with Christian Pedersen (Evry, Norway) and Pavi
Chigateri (KPH Healthcare, USA). The session was
moderated by Ramamohan Panyam (Evry, India).

11. “Mindfulness on the go” at Philips, Bangalore
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Some of questions from participants in my session on
“Mindfulness on the go” at Philips, Bangalore

12. Articles
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• Could listening be the biggest source of ideas?
• 3 essential elements of an empathic interview
• My 3 takeaways from “Metaphors we live by” by
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
• How Carlo Rovelli dismantles the order of time

13. Thank You
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vinay@catalign.com
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