Highlights and reflections by Vinay Dabholkar on his work as a consultant, teacher, and author in the areas of innovation strategy, design thinking, and mindfulness during October-December 2020

1. Catalign Quarterly
Oct-Dec 2020
Innovation Strategy, Design Thinking, Mindfulness
Vinay Dabholkar
Catalign Innovation Consulting
vinay@catalign.com
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2. Focus Areas
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Design
Thinking
Innovation
Strategy
Mindfulness

3. Consulting
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Teaching Blog/Podcast

4. It was a privilege to serve following customers
this Oct-Dec quarter:
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5. Consulting
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Teaching Blog/Podcast

6. Managing Technological Innovation
ENT209/607 at IIT Bombay
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It was a pleasure to teach students from various
departments ranging from B.Tech 2nd year to M.Tech
2nd year at Desai Sethi School of Entrepreneurship
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7. Design Thinking for Digital Era at IIMB
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Taught 2 sessions for an Executive Education Program
“Leading innovation in the Digital Era” led by Prof.
Rishikesha T. Krishnan at IIM Bangalore, (Nov 2020)

8. Design Thinking a 2-day open program
at IIM Bangalore
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A participant demonstrating a sketch of an idea
during the 2-day workshop at IIM Bangalore –
collaborator Prof. Ganesh Prabhu. (Nov 2020)

9. Mindfulness on the go: webinar series
(Sep-Nov 2020)
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List of videos with content description
Playlist for the videos from this webinar

10. From jugaad to systematic innovation
A talk at Indian Chemical Council
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Gave a talk at Indian Chemical Council – in
collaboration with Dr. Ganapathy Lakshman, IIM
Bangalore, Marketing department, Dec 2020

11. Consulting
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Teaching Blog/Podcast

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A conversation with Prof. Ganesh Prabhu on
evolution of electric scooters in India
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13. Blogs
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• Innovation at Amazon: A CTO perspective from Dr. Werner Vogels
• Design Thinking resources #2: Empathy
• My 4 takeaways from “Getting people to talk: An ethnography
primer”
• Doing the last experiment first: illustrated through Alex Honnod’s El
Capitan free solo
• No man can walk out on his own story

14. Thank You
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vinay@catalign.com
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