Standing Ovation at IBM

Sukumar trigged a discussion on Standing Ovationon twitter today and hence this brief post .
If I have seen this far, it is on the shoulder of Giants ( IBM) 

It’s a well acknowledged fact that we in India seldom give standing ovations. By contrast Americans are significantly more generous with their standing ovations. Any hypotheses on why this is so?

— Sukumar Rajagopal (@rsukumar) September 18, 2019

 

I have received Standing Ovation twice in India ! Yayy Yayy :)
Sukumar, Do a simple Twitter poll. Indians don't give standing ovation as much as Americans

— Ruchi 🏳️‍🌈🌈 (@rucsb) September 18, 2019

  

Super Ruchi. Can you please do a post on what you did in that speech that might have contributed to the standing ovations?

— Sukumar Rajagopal (@rsukumar) September 18, 2019

 

First time, I received Standing Ovation from Pavan Vaish, CEO and  SLT Senior Leadership Team at IBM Daksh in 2009 for Implementing IBM BlueIQ Program as Country Lead in India.
I was awarded Most Valuable Ambassador award for my contributions .
I got opportunity to work and collaborate with Luis Suarez who is a friend till date . Yayy to 10 years of Friendship . Luis lives in Gran Canaria Isaland , Spain and travels world over for talks and Public Speaking 

Second time, I received Standing Ovation by New Hires for conducting Training session for new IBMers at Noida location where i trained them on IBM Collboration tools and Communities which are hotbeds of Innovation at IBM  . 
I was leading Enterprise wide Social Media Adoption Program as Country Lead for IBM India at that time. This role was over and above my day job as WorkForce Partner ( HR) at IBM in voluntary capacity as Stretch Assignment :-)

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Wicked Problems for Policy Making

We learnt about Wicked Problems in Design Thinking class.

Complex problems like Education and Healthcare are good examples of Wicked problems.
Wicked problems are inherently complex , requires multi disciplinary approach and has 10 distinct characteristics 

Climate crisis will also fall under the category of wicked problem because the articulation is not straightforward and there can't be one simple or final solution.

I love this quote by Albert Einstein -

It's not that I'am so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.  - Albert Einstein

I have been researching ,speaking, articulating, lending voice  and stayed with few problems since many years . One of them is the problem of Gender Equality. 

108 Years: Wait for Gender Equality Gets Longer as Women’s Share of Workforce, Politics Drops

Networks are suggested as a resource for tackling wicked problems in this Nonprofit Quarterly reprint. 

What are common wicked problems? How are wicked problems different from other problems?

In their original work, Rittel and Webber suggested that wicked problems are typically those pertaining to governmental, social, or policy planning. Examples of wicked problems that have been addressed in scholarly literature include poverty, urban renewal, school curriculum design, education, environmental and natural resources policy.

In the Digital World that we live in, Regulatory Framework by Governments around Data privacy would also be categorised as  wicked problem

It's an open secret that FAANG companies ( Facebook , Apple, Amazon , Netflix, Google) are collecting lot of our personal data. We need Govt intervention for robust #Privacy policies regarding our Personal #data to prevent misuse. #PublicPolicy #India @GoI_MeitY

— Ruchi 🏳️‍🌈🌈 (@rucsb) August 10, 2019

Read Bill and Melinda Gate Annual letter 2019 to understand some wicked problems 

I discovered Trillion Dollar Coach fm Bill Gates tweets.His #books reccos r superb.For people who ponder & care deeply abt solving world's complex problems , Open Annual Letter by Bill & Melinda Gates is just the right Food for Thought #ProblemSolvers https://t.co/1t4qeYR0EX

— Ruchi 🏳️‍🌈🌈 (@rucsb) August 10, 2019

What wicked problems you are working on ? Who are the stakeholders involved ? 

How do you go about identifying the problem ? What are the solutions proposed ? 

Who are the sponsors ? 

Would love to hear your views on Wicked Problems in India. 

Future Ready WorkForce

Future Ready Workforce will constitute Individuals who are LifeLongLearners, who have the ability to learn, unlearn, relearn and reinvent themselves. Who are agile, and make  investment in self education and acquiring new skills.

Future ready workforce also mean networked and collaborative workforce. They know how to collaborate, create trust in virtual environment, reach out to experts across borders and locate expertise quickly at the tip of fingertips to create value for clients. 

Future ready workforce means individual employees may not have all the answers to client problems however have the skills to find the answers and reach out to experts.

Who knows what , who knows whom and who knows what you know  becomes utmost important , hence the value of networks.

Future ready workforce know how to manage work & get work done in a borderless economy.

Learning Organization

Peter Senge must be very happy with the growth and proliferation of Social Media and social networking platforms. After all , the gentleman pioneered the concept of Learning Organization decades back in 1994

Let me take this concept of Learning organization to next level.

To my mind, in future the word organization would be replaced by word "Networks ".Let me highlight Key characteristics of Learning networks

1. Mashup of people with diverse skills, experience, competencies and capabilities
2. Woven into a matrix to solve key business issues / challenges on real time basis.
3. Real time Flow of information & valuable content embedded in context.
4. Co creating and consuming value together to achieve aligned business goals and objectives
5. Enabling participation and contribution and transparency on solid foundation of systems thinking.
6. Powered by Analytics for meaningful callouts, opportunity areas, insights to make it an iterative process.