Elephantversity Institute of Innovation along with Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries & Agriculture(MCCIA) organized a day long workshop on 'Business Innovation for MSME's" on 9th September in Pune.

The workshop was aimed specially towards Micro Small & Mediaum Enterprises (MSME's). It covered MSME's, those who are supplying to other businesses (OEM's) & also to those who make their own products. The challenge for  the workshop focused on the issue 'how Industry could Innovate in a turbulent economy'.

Ashish Deshpande, Partho Guha, (Founder Director of Elephant Strategy+Design) along with Hrridaysh Deshpande (Director, Elephantversity Institute of Innovation) shared several strategies & tools for developing new user centric product from strategy to prototype to relevant Business model. Anna Muoio (Principle Social Innovation, Continuum, USA) also briefed participants about Innovation & Design thinking.

The issues covered in the workshop included innovation framework, understanding users, interactive ideation & prototyping and business model & strategy development.

Ashish Deshpande holding the session
 

Partho Guha briefing the Participants about the exercise

Participants Prototyping

Participants explaining their concepts

The participating entrepreneurs & managers of MSME's equipped themselves with necessary knowledge, tools & the confidence to Innovate. As we at Elephant Strategy + Design & Elephantversity believes ‘Everyone Can Innovate’.