This document discusses fostering innovation through frugality. It suggests that frugality can manifest in form, features, and functions through approaches like:
- Developing low-cost, modular solutions that allow adding features over time
- Designing products for circularity, affordability, durability, and multi-functionality
- Pursuing reciprocal open innovation to share ideas across sectors
Frugality is presented as a way to do more with less through grassroots innovation, adapting existing technologies, and meeting needs in novel ways. Nurturing frugal ideas involves incubation approaches like strategic trials and user-led modifications.
3. Ostrich
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• In breeding- NIH (not invented here)
• Indifferent routinized
• High inertia
• Reason-Ready for Status quo
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• Introspection
• Talk with-in
• Cycles of isolation necessary to hear own voice
S o l i t u d e
11. Will these Opportunities be missed?
• Linkage with small clients
• Diversity vs density
• Fortune in the fragmented markets
• Falling is not failing: fun to fail but learn
• Sandboxing ideas vs fish-netting innovations
12. Learning platforms
from concrete to abstract
1) Artefactual - replication of similar design
2) Analogic - metaphor to inspire
3) Heuristic - models of thinking
4) Gestalt - configurational of factors
Gupta, 2012, Own compilation
Four levels of learning
13. creativity, compassion, communication and collaboration
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Autopoiesis : improving designs
through use, self-design, learning
as one grows
creativity, compassion,
communication and
19. NATURE IS MOST FRUGAL
• PARSIMONIOUS NATURE
• PERCEPTIVE INSTITUTIONS
• RESPONSIBLE CULTURES
• NETWORKED FORMAL AND INFROMAL
KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
• CULTURE, VALUES, TECHNOLOGY AND
INSTITUTIONS
20. Frugality is flexible
Frugality is friendly
Frugality is extremely
•Value chain redesign,
• reciprocal open innovation platform
Circular Economy
21. Needs can be
fashioned
Microsoft puts say 500 features in a word processing
software, out of which most of us use 50 features, and yet
we pay for all the 500
Most cell phones have the same problem
22. Stack up approach:
• Begin with a low cost, no frill model, and add
additional modules as per ones wish and
affordable bracket
• Modular design also helps in changing only
the damaged module rather than the whole
machine or solution
23. Frugality has to
manifest
in three dimensions
Form
Feature
Function
DHRUV: GANDHINAGAR,
A REFRIGERATOR WHICH GIVES MORE
27. IS FRUGALITY RELEVANT ONLY FOR
POOR?
- DEMATERIALIZATION
- PLANNED RENEWABILITY
- EACH COMPONENT TO HAVE
FATIGUE FACTOR IMPRINTED
- MARKET FOR USING PARTS WITH
UNTAPPED ENERGY LEFT, TO DELAY
ENTROPY
- SUSTAINBILITY IS THE SOUL OF
FRUGALITY
29. Making strategic breakthroughs
incremental innovations, adaptive trials,
user-led modifications. , incubation
R & D with external experts, new
actors and new arrangements
Product Development,
amplify the
form, features and functions
Paradigmatic
disruption, discontinuity and non-
parameteric approaches , sanctuary
model
Known
Known
Unknown
Unknown
Domain characteristics
Technologicalplatforms
34. Future proofing by not being just
better but being different
Picking holes
in the sky
35. David and Goliath
In major wars among opponents with
one at least ten times bigger than
another, David won 71 percent times
over Goliath
36. Flying into the arms of future
clinging to a straw in the wind
rpwcedences are aprison in which medicres trap themsleves
Precedences are the prison in which mediocre trap themselves