TRANSFORMATION
TRANSFORMATION
SIMPLICITY
SIMPLICITY
CREATIVITY
CREATIVITY
COMPASSION
COMPASSION
COMMUNITY
The Mission
Inspire change
Frugal Company is Abhinav Agarwal’s transformation playground to experiment and practice resourceful innovation for eco-sufficiency and AI transformation challenges.
Abhinav works with organizations, teams, and individuals empowering them to embrace change and foster innovation by leveraging constraints. He wears the hat of a trainer, coach, change management consultant and product owner.
His unique approach to leadership is inspired from the Indian philosophy, grassroot practices to create a group alchemy for authentic conversations. He helps your organization achieve sustainable growth through innovative practices.
Services
Keynote, training, coaching, consulting
Frugal innovation management
Build Innovation Communities of Practice
Custom workshops to find creative solutions to your operational and strategic problems with available resources and competencies in the most efficient way by unleashing the hidden potential.
Green IT, Tech for Good
Innovation
Training for product managers, IT departments and sustainability departments for making the right choices in their digital transformation strategies for a sovereign future to reduce scope three emissions and build a culture for green practices.
Leadership coaching based on Indian Philospphy
Coaching and training workshop
Learn and practice impact-oriented ethical leadership principles based on ancient wisdom from Indian philosophy that can help mindful decision-making in complex environments.
American, Japanese and French models of management practices that the world has adopted to foster innovation, entrepreneurship, are performance-based, ego-centric, or socio-centric while the Indian model is based on ethics, impact, and work (Karma Yoga).
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.
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 !
Media
Pubications, videos and podcast
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
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!
Resources
Latest online resources
Gallery
Photos from my workshops
Our constellation of partners
We've got top notch partners !
SharingValue
Audit and consulting
Valuation for your company's intangibles assets
Grassroot network
Spreading word about grassroot innovations pioneere by Prof. Anil Gupta
SENS+
Think and Do Tank
Sustaining impact projects
