Leadership

In Diversity, We Trust

Premise: There is a lot of talk about the importance of building diversity in our workforce and how it is to be considered as an investment in top talent, new ideas, and better connections. Then there is a lot of talk about integrating millennials in our workforce and giving them a lot of exposure and opportunities to bring in their perspective to the business. Both of these are great thoughts and in principle sound extremely sound ideas to implement. However, most organisations need to be careful about how they go about implementing these within their organisations. The first question we […]

Leadership

Making the upcoming year our best year ever by becoming the best version of ourselves

First things first… “Wishing you all a very happy 2018 & a year full of wishes coming true! And a big, heartfelt thanks for allowing me to be a part of your life, by giving your time and attention (two of your most important resources) to my work. I truly appreciate this and will always strive to be worthy of this attention. Now, let me get to the reason, why I am writing this post. With every new year comes new year resolutions, goals and aspirations to make the coming year, the best year ever. There are many people who […]

Innovation

Learning Design Thinking By Design Doing

 via GIPHY I was invited by the organising team of the Society for Technical Communication’s India chapter conference to introduce the concepts of Design thinking to the participants. We did some brainstorming and decided that instead of giving a lecture for an hour about design thinking and walk off, it would be better if we can find some additional time and get the participants to experience Design thinking methodology by using the process to attempt to solve something that everyone of them are currently facing. I got about 150 mins at the conference to deliver this experience. After a lot […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Ideas, Innovation

How to Run a Good Brainstorming Session

  Last week I was invited to run a Design thinking experiential workshop for the STC conference in Bangalore. We had about 70 people in the room. All of them experienced technical content writers. As I always believe, learning happens best when people have a lot of fun while learning. We then retain a lot of what we learn in that setting.  I am getting beside the point. I am sure that everyone of us, me included, have at one point or other, been invited to join  in a brainstorm to come up with ideas to solve a given problem. […]

Ideas

Designing in the Era of the Algorithms

  I came across this video by Josh Clark where he talks about the challenges and opportunities of designing stuff (products/services) in the era of algorithms. This is a must watch video if you are currently engaged in developing a product or service which uses machine learning or artificial intelligence. He points out some very interesting places where you could potentially go wrong. Watch, listen, understand and avoid these mistakes. Hope you like the video and learnt something important.