• Frugal Company

    Your innovation partner to play with constraints

  • Play with constraints

    My name is Abhinav Agarwal and Frugal Company is my arena—where constraints aren't limits, they're catalysts. I dare you to enter, to innovate, and to turn LESS into LIMITLESS
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    I work with public and private sector, startups and NGO's empowering them to embrace change and foster innovation by leveraging constraints. I wears multiple hats, as entrepreneur, trainer, coach, change management consultant, author, speaker, advisor, data product owner, cross-border technology broker, game master & Alchemist. I always say YES to wearing new hats.

    I design immersive experiences for a transformative change. My unique approach to sustainable leadership inspired from Indian philosophy, grassroot practices, psychology help me create a group alchemy for authentic conversations and creative desctruction.
  • Enter my arena

    Keynotes, seminars, workshops, consulting, venture building, improv...

    Innovation, Consulting, Teaching

    I choose to work with my clients, if the project is fun, challenging and pays well. I always have new tricks up my sleeves and never get bored. Dare to knock if you have a problem!

  • L'éloge du Pain Perdu

    5 years of transdisciplinary research in the form of a philosophical essay exploring the notion of transformation of matter, of individuals and a society, through the metaphor of bread!

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    Comment transformer une baguette rassie en baguette magique ?
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    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.
  • Resources

    Online resources

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    Custom GPT with my frugal innovation recipe
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    Medium publications

    Latest ramblings on innovation & creativity
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    Whatsapp community

    Rejoignez la communauté whatsapp sur l'innovation et le management frugal
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    Connaissez vous votre archetyes d'innovation ?
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    Frugal Innovation channel with talks with experts in diverse fields
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    Collaborative notes taken by 30 add people during the frugal innovation day
  • Media

    Pubications, videos and podcast

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    Key note on Industry 5.0

    Key note at SIDO Paris on Industry 5.0 - December 2023

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    Dossier - Sobriété, croissance, quel équilibre ?

    Contribution to an article published in DAF-MAG (French magazine for CFOs)

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    Faire mieux sans dépenser plus

    Article in Gazette des communes on experimenting with frugal innovation for cities

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    Le management frugal pour les territoires

    Capsule video pour la semaine de l'innovation publique avec le CNFPT

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    A podcast in french on frugal innovation

    Podcast sur Innovecteursur les principes de l'innovation frugale et +

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    Resilient cities

    An interview on frugal and resilient cities in French & German

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    A 2 day online event on frugal innovation

    Organized by Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

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    Coverage on DW International German Channel on Jugaad

    Jugaad - - the Indian concept inspiring France

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    Les grandes entreprises touchées par « l’innovation frugale »

    Gazette de la Défense covering the Frugal Innovation Day

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    Innover pour réconcilier économie et écologie

    A roundtable organized by Expertise France on Frugal Innovation with other experts

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    Le « jugaad » : comment innover avec des ressources limitées

    An article in French News Paper les Echos

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    Utopias of sharing life, caring community in Paris

    An article in DNAINDIA by Prof. Gupta and his visit to Paris

  • 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 !