Kaustubh is Design Thinker, an 'Innovation & Strategy' evangelist, with unconventional lenses of looking at companies strategically for avenues for diversification & reinventing their business models. He has a Ph.D in 'Design Thinking & Corporate Innovation' Specialties: Need Finding across sectors to spot opportunities- help people ideate, help young students spin-off companies from campus, Unique biz models. - Designing automation technology for assembly-lines He has been an invited speaker at two TEDx events till date ( http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Entrepreneurship-Kaustubh-Dharg) His focus area is analyzing Consumer discomforts & spotting opportunities since he strongly believes, "Today's Pain Points are tomorrow's Opportunities". His work in this field has been acknowledged by The Wharton School of Business, which awarded him the runner-up award in their global 'Wharton Innovation Tournament' in 2010 for his app for mining Consumer Pain Points. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/wipro/innovation.cfm He contributes his views to Knowledge@Wharton, a publication of the Wharton School of Business. In March, 2015, Kaustubh was awarded the 'Entrepreneurship Educator & Mentor' Award by the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship-Govt. of India, , INTEL, British Council, NEN, EDII. In Nov 2015, his proposal on clean energy integration with electric vehicles was adjudged as the top seven in the world at the Smart City World Expo Congress held in Barcelona, Spain. http://www.smartcityexpo.com/en/awards-2015 Currently, heading the Innovation lab @ Welingkar institute of Management Development & Research, he has undertaken multiple research initiatives aimed at mining consumer insights and helping create new products and offerings. Mentoring start-ups is a passion, he is associated with various startup platforms as a mentor . His earlier ventures have been in the field of automation technology(focused on productivity enhancement through automation)

Company: IIM-A & WeSchool

  Position: Mentor & Professor

Experience13 Year 0 Months

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaustubh-dhargalkar-458a238

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