SIMPLICITY
CREATIVITY
KINDNESS
CURIOSITY
COMMUNITY
Frugal Company
Upgrade your mental OS to build a better world
Our Mission
Inspire change
Inspire individual and collective transformation with the magic of simplicity and resourcefulness!
Our Values
SIMPLICITY
CREATIVITY
KINDNESS
CURIOSITY
COMMUNITY
Our offerings
Training, coaching, consulting
Frugal innovation management
Build Innovation Communities of Practice
Custom training program for training change agents, managers and C-level executives with the tools for making impactful change in organizations using a grassroot approach. This unique approach includes the following non-exhaustive list of tools, methods, frameworks:
- Frugal management as a constraint based strategy framework
- Theory of change for making lasting impact
- OKR (project management the google way) to track and implement change through a bottom-up approach
- Tools for re-framing and creative problem solving
-Sensemaking tools to manage complexity
- Strategies for simplifying and identifying technical, cultural and ecological debt
Green IT, Tech for Good
Innovation
Training for product managers, innovation and sustainability departments for making the right choices in their digital transformation strategies for a sovereign future (concepts around platform design, modularity, interoperability, open architecture, cybersecurity)..
Open innovation
Europe - India network
We help companies, startups, universities and NGOs leverage the power of open innovation to access knowledge and resources through our partner network in Europe and India for joint initiatives.
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
Download the Frugal Strategy Canvas
A one page template to ask yourself important questions for developing a "frugal value chain" to innovating with your ecosystem by leveraging constraints and answering unmet needs !
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!
Media
Reference in the media
A podcast in french on frugal innovation
Podcast sur Innovecteursur les principes de l'innovation frugale et +
Les grandes entreprises touchées par « l’innovation frugale »
Gazette de la Défense covering the first 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
Resources
Latest online resources
Our web of partners
Grassroot network
Spreading word about grassroot innovations pioneere by Prof. Anil Gupta
Plateform for identifying social innovations
Association Innovation Citoyenne et Développement Durable
Consulting in sustainable finance
Assists financial institutions in their journey towards sustainable finance
Contact us
Get in touch if you want to organise workshops, lectures or collaborate.
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