Frugal Company
Transmuting Constraints into Creative possibilities
Learn to reframe constraint into opportunities for innovation
Frugal Company has created and curated exclusive tools for frugal changemakers to transmute constraints into impactful solutions. Unlike other approaches, this training brings together entrepreneurs, executives, consultants, and creators who want to learn how to leverage ingenuity to make an impact. It’s not a traditional education—it’s a transformative learning experience.
Frugal Company is Abhinav Agarwal’s transformation playground to experiment and practice resourceful innovation for eco-sufficiency and change.
Abhinav works with organizations, teams, and individuals empowering them to embrace change and foster innovation by leveraging constraints and inner resources. He wears the hats of a trainer, coach, change management consultant and product owner.
He has created and curated exclusive tools for changemakers to transmute constraints into impactful solutions.
Unlike other approaches his unique approach to sustainable leadership is inspired from the Indian philosophy, grassroot practices to create a group alchemy for authentic conversations and foster change. He helps organizations achieve sustainable growth through value based practices and a transformative learning experience.
Values
TRANSFORMATION
SIMPLICITY
CREATIVITY
COMPASSION
COMMUNITY
Adaptive navigation with Frugal Management
1Identify your problems and constraints
2Transmute your problems into an inspiring objective
3Map resources and onboard allies to access abundance
4Brainstorm activities and solutions
5Plan feedback rituals
6Make an impact
Download the Frugal management Canvas
The Frugal Management Canvas is a strategic framework to provide a one-page, constraint-based strategy document for solving operational and strategic problems by leveraging available resources and finding creative and efficient solutions using effectual thinking, polarity mapping and OKR.
This is an effectual approach that I use for change management and building innovation capabilities for intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs.
What can we do together ?
Key notes, seminars, workshops and consulting
- Key notes
Key notes to inspire creativity, frugal innovation and entrepreneurship for innovating under constraints in uncertain times for a better world. I can speak in French and English on a variety of subjects from frugal innovation applied to Industry 5.0, changement management, Geopolitics of energy between france and India and other topics...Check out the media section on the different subjects on which I can speak but not limited to.
- Workshops on frugal management / Frugal innovation
- Changing your perspective on constraints and complexity
- Using reframing tools used by innovators to change the perceived problem
- Understanding transformation cycles to understand change
- Adopting entrepreneurial decision making under Knightian uncertainty, Marchian goal ambiguity, and Weickian sensemaking
- Understanding the value of intangible assets
- Understand the strength of personal and shared values for navigating under uncertainty
- Putting it all together: Doing more with what you have and who you are for more impact
Why do organizations fail implementing change initiatives
- Too difficult to read organizational complexity
- Biases, habits, urgency and constraints can create tunnel vision
- Scalability of change initiatives due to cultural debt fail to embark a collective effort
- Difficulty in reframing problems when you part of the problem if you don't have the right tools and mindset
- Difficulty in correctly formulating problems instead of looking for solutions
- No time to step back for introspection or to take a birds eye view
- Difficult to identify hidden or dormant resources due to functional fixedness
- Low awareness of the value of intangibles assets
- Lack of courage and bold moves
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5 years of transdiciplinary research in the form of a philosophical essay exploring the notion of transformation of matter, of individuals and a society !
Comment transformer une baguette rassie en baguette magique ?
What we can do together
Keynote, training, consulting,
Key notes
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Key notes to inspire creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship for innovating under constraints in uncertain times for a better world.
Custom workshops
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Training to build learning organizations and build internal innovation capabilities based on frugal innovation and entrepreneruship to leverage the organizations intangible assets.
Consulting and change management
Coaching and training workshop
Implementation of a frugal innovation culture and projects for organizations, cities, NGO's, foundations and startups.
10 Principles of frugal innovation
1. Focus on available, affordable and accessible resources
2. Find new ways to add value to existing resources
3. Understanding the problem is important, feeling it is better
4. If you are sure about something, challenge it
5. Embrace constraints to generate new solutions
6. Combine knowledge and perspectives from two or more domains
7. Focus on responsible value creation, not extraction
8. Identify opportunities for co-creation
9. Strive for simplicity
10. Test, Transform, Thrive
Annual Frugal Innovation Day: 14th March 2019
Exploring the various facettes of frugal innovation
1 day seminar
One day seminar to explore the various concepts associated with frugal innovation as applied by companies, startups and NGOS. More info on the last edition here: www.frugalinnovationday.com
To be a speaker, sponsor partner for the next FID2020, feel free to get in touch !
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Resources
Latest online resources
Media
Pubications, videos and podcast
Le management frugal pour les territoires
Capsule video pour la semaine de l'innovation publique avec le CNFPT
A podcast in french on frugal innovation
Podcast sur Innovecteursur les principes de l'innovation frugale et +
Coverage on DW International German Channel on Jugaad
Jugaad - - the Indian concept inspiring France
Les grandes entreprises touchées par « l’innovation frugale »
Gazette de la Défense covering the Frugal Innovation Day
Innover pour réconcilier économie et écologie
A roundtable organized by Expertise France on Frugal Innovation with other experts
Le « jugaad » : comment innover avec des ressources limitées
An article in French News Paper les Echos
Utopias of sharing life, caring community in Paris
An article in DNAINDIA by Prof. Gupta and his visit to Paris
Innovation Tarot - Mindset behind the method for solving problems !
The "Innovation Tarot" is a problem solving deck to facilitate collective intelligence and group discussions by asking powerful & "facilitative questions" to answer all questions in the face of uncertainty and constraints.
The method has been inspired from various approaches and synthesize complexe mental models through simple questions.
It can be used for self-coaching, for innovation and design thinking workshops for co-dev and in various ways as described here!
Our constellation of partners
We've got top notch partners !
Grassroot network
Spreading word about grassroot innovations pioneere by Prof. Anil Gupta
Get in touch
Get in touch for your consulting needs or if you want to organise workshops, executive coaching or have any ideas for co-innovation !
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