Rethinking the framework of project management While talking to a very large community of project management professionals in Bangalore recently, it became obvious that the project management framework needs a thorough rethink. The effects of the project, I had argued in 1981, start manifesting right from the stage of its conceptualisation, to its announcement, grounding…
FPM Course: 2013, Term II-III Institution Building for Sustainable Development Course Instructor – Prof. Anil K. Gupta (Wing 13, Extension Number – 4927) Introduction With the passage of time, the organizations have to renew their mandate, recharge their vision and enhance their capacity to govern themselves. In the process, the organizational members have to increase…
Aesthetics of alienation Recently when the film Ship of Theseus drew full house, the philosophical root of the question behind its story somehow did not get discussed enough in society. Anand Gandhi has dared to ask some very fundamental issues about life, its transitivity, its mutation through organ transplants and then where does the original identity reside, in the part, or the donor or the receiver. Apart from outstanding photography and beautiful…
Anjani Mashelkar Inclusive Innovation AwardAnjani Mashelkar, Dr R.A. Mashelkar´s mother, brought him up facing all the odds that a poor widowed uneducated mother moving to Mumbai with her only child – a six year old boy – would face. And this she did with courage and dignity. Her own circumstances never brought her down –…
Towards a new social contract: police and the society Recently while talking to around 150 probationers at National Police Academy, Hyderabad, several interesting issues emerged in the context of rising expectations of society and declining autonomy of police forces. It seems that all of us want police to keep villages and city safe, but…
Circular economy is booming when ‘take, make, faink’ is slowing down This is for the first time in the history of industrial economic development, green business ( blue economy) which looks at both biological and non biological feedback systems to be sustainable (cradle to cradle approach compatible with industrial ecology framework) seems to be…
Who is an authentic professional: responsibility of a professional in a public project intervention Recently while debating the design, location, and erection of flyover, a leading architect who had designed the new campus of IIMA and who is also a dear friend, Bimal Patel, said, “AMC just wanted my company to design the flyover…
A paradox of modern times is that as our awareness about new knowledge is increasing, our ability to develop a feel for the problems around us is decreasing. It seems we are getting immunised by an ever expanding exposure and awareness. Thus while we develop feel for only a very small part of our daily knowledge, we take even lesser initiatives for…
will we forget the lessons of this disaster too? Devastating floods in uttrakhand once again draw our attention to the persistent negligence towards lessons of such past tragedies( even if none had a scale of this order may be). Would we not forget about it in a week’s time when newspapers will have…
Devastating floods in uttrakhand once again draw our attention to the gross negligence we commit towards preparing better to deal with such tragedies. The state administration must be complimented for evacuating more than fifty thousand people already to safer places. They need all the support. But we must also learn from such disasters to prevent…