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Frugal Company
Your think tank to fix the world
Our Mission
Be a change catalysts
Be a change catalyst for businesses to inspire solutions for the common good !
Our Values
INTEGRITY
EXCELLENCE
EMPATHY
ADVENTURE
FREEDOM
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!
Our offerings
Conference & workshops
Training, coaching & consulting
Build Innovation Communities of Practice
1 day workshops for creating awareness around "frugal innovation" and responsible innovation for innovating creatively with constraints "the indian way" ! Inspiration from regenerative dialogue, Art of Hosting, Theory U, Adaptive governance, and innovation methodologies.
E-learning
Customized E-learning in SCORM format
Get in touch if you want a 1 hour introductory course on frugal innovation in ENG/ FR personalised for your industry . This course can be useful in bringing about awareness for achieveing the 9th SDG for building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation. This course is equally useful for companies trying to put in place an agile culture at scale.
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.
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 has 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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