Skill Development Workshop on "Innovation and Design Thinking" funded by IEEE SPAx

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Innovation and creativity are crucial for individual success and companies’ performance. They are
required even for economic growth and social development. Business innovation encompasses
product or technological innovation within a company but is broader in scope as it also involves
changes to organizational processes, structures, and services.
This is an activity-based workshop. It will address the concepts of innovation & creativity by taking
students through a journey from the creative processes within our minds to the management of
innovation within organizations. It will emphasize the relational aspects of innovation and
creativity: innovation does not happen in isolation. People become creative, and generate
innovation, through processes of social interaction with others.
Workshop Outcomes: On completion of the workshop, students will
• Understand the concept of creativity and innovation in different contexts.
• Understand different types of innovation: from radical to continuous innovation.
• Unbox the Design Thinking toolkit.
• Implement a Design Thinking Activity in a group.

Event Description:

  • Led by Dr. Kumidhini Ravindra, participants engaged in activities focusing on systematic innovation.

  • Dr. Ravindra emphasized the importance of a balanced mindset and introduced the design thinking process.

  • Activities included non-dominant hand exercises and cube-making to stimulate creativity.

  • Participants learned to embrace ambiguity through divergent and convergent thinking.

 

Benefits from the Event:

  • Development of an Innovator's mindset.

  • Acquisition of practical problem-solving techniques.

  • Enhancement of skills in opportunity identification and solution development.

  • Introduction to systematic approaches to innovation.

  • Encouragement of continuous learning and experimentation.

 


  Date and Time

  Location

  Hosts

  Registration


  • Start time: 03 Apr 2024 10:00 AM
  • End time: 04 Apr 2024 12:00 PM
  • All times are (UTC+05:30) Chennai
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  • SJB Seminar Hall
  • RVR & JC College of Engineering
  • Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
  • India 522019
  • Building: Silver Jubilee Block
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  • Starts 21 March 2024 08:00 PM
  • Ends 03 April 2024 05:00 PM
  • All times are (UTC+05:30) Chennai
  • No Admission Charge

  Speakers

Kumudhini of Chief Mentor @ Blue Lotus Inc

Topic:

Innovation and Design Thinking

Biography:

Dr. Kumudhini Ravindra is a Business Transformation Leader with
two and a half decades of multidisciplinary experience. She is the
Principal Partner – Strategic Innovation, Sustainability & Standards at
Innomantra Consulting, and Chief Mentor & Founder of Blue Lotus
Inc. Her expertise is in the areas of clean technologies, innovation,
design, and systems thinking. She is also the expert delegate from India
on the ISO Technical Committee for drafting the Innovation
Management Systems Standards (ISO 56000 series).

A recognized thought leader, Dr. Kumudhini has worked and contributed to various clean tech
projects across the globe. Her work on designing and implementing community microgrids was
pioneering research on Microgrids in India. She has a strong quantitative & system modelling
background along with Innovation Product Lifecycle Management (iPLM) experience.
Prior to Innomantra, Dr. Kumudhini was the CTO at Noorgo Inc a U.S Innovation and Idea

Management organization. She has been a co-founder of several Cleantech and education-
based organizations; and brings with her a focused approach to problem solving. She has

created scaling up and growth strategies for companies in cleantech and hi-tech industries. She
held senior roles as a Business Strategy Consultant, Senior Business Analyst and Systems

Engineer for hi-tech firms like Tata Infotech, Daimler Chrysler India, Power Research &
Development Consultants along with mentoring startups like Nisiki Technologies, Sky Group,
Pranava Biofuels, and Chalkboard Academy. She has been a serial entrepreneur.
Dr. Kumudhini has a Ph.D. in Energy Modelling and Management from the Indian Institute of
Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. She holds an MBA from the Department of Management
Studies, IISc; a BE (Electrical & Electronics) from UVCE, Bangalore University, and was a
short-term Research Scholar at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2010. She has a
PG Diploma in Innovation & Design Thinking from Emeritus Institute Singapore. Kumudhini
was a university rank holder and has won many accolades from industry and academia over
the years.
Dr. Kumudhini has been an active member of IEEE for over 15 years and has held executive
positions in Power & Energy Society and Women in Engineering. She was the Chair of IEEE
Bangalore WIE AG in 2022 and was Chair Elect of the Education Society IEEE Bangalore
Section (2020-23). She is the Chair of the Energy working group of the IET India Future
Technology Panel. She mentors government agencies, educational institutions, and startups
with a focus on strategy, innovation, and process re-engineering. She has also authored books,
numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals and is a visiting faculty in management and engineering institutions across India.

Address:Bangalore, India




Agenda

This is an activity-based workshop. It will address the concepts of innovation & creativity by taking
students through a journey from the creative processes within our minds to the management of
innovation within organizations. It will emphasize the relational aspects of innovation and
creativity: innovation does not happen in isolation. People become creative, and generate
innovation, through processes of social interaction with others.


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