Foundation Fortnight - Neev 2015 (Welingkar, Bengaluru)
Foundation Fortnight, Neev 2015 at
Welingkar Bengaluru
Theme - 'Responsible leaders...passionately curious'
remains at the core of all deliberations.
DAY 8 (04 July) - Neev 2015 (Welingkar,
Bengaluru)
Innovation is
Just an Idea, without Action
 Half-way through the fortnight, the focus had shifted from
rounds of introduction and orientation walks to some
serious academic-sessions in business and management. The
new batch had classroom sessions, possibly the first one,
on Business Analytics and Principles of Management. The
sessions were by the Welingkar faculty.
Prof Shekar Prabhakar
explained the working of Assessment Centre and Development
Centre. The Centre assesses the students on key managerial
competencies by external industry practitioners and helps
them realize the gap between their own self-mage and how
the external world perceives them. Also this enables them
to identify their strengths and two key areas to develop
in. Prof. Shekar Prabhakar guiding them in the process,
stressed the importance of developing these areas to a
minimum acceptable level through the Development Centre
with the help of faculty mentors assigned to them. The
Development Centre also caters to their career concerns.
 The panel discussion
of the day pegged on the theme - Curiosity to Innovation.
Experts included Prashant Subhedar, Director-Bang Design,
Huda Jaffer- Lead Designer-SELCO Labs, Sonia Manchandana -
Co-founder and Creative Chief-Idiom and. Gayathri
Tirthapura - MD, Kutoohala.
The panelists felt
that questioning is an important tool for satisfying
curiosity. Creative curiosity is not an option but is
mandatory. Responding to the question on new learning in a
new real world the panelists felt that learning is a
continuous process. One should not confine learning to
domains nor should set limiting goals; one must learn from
everything they see around them. For eg. Sport is a great
teacher. The experts underlined, equally important is to
learn coping with failure. As far as innovation was
concerned the panelists felt that innovation is only an
idea without action. Making ideas work is a necessary
corollary of innovation. One has to be empathically
curious.
The Hands-on session was devoted to creating models with
the help of lego blocks. The session basically tested the
creativity quotient of the students. The session
progressed under the supportive supervision of Ms Gayathri
Tirthapura, MD, Kutoohala.
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