Connecting minds to transform a billion lives in 5475 days

The only thing necessary for the unfortunate to get

worse... is for the fortunate to do nothing!

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 Social Change - Where’s the bottleneck?

Social Problems are dynamically complex problems

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Great Ideas, as they transform
wishes into real possibilities,
are the most empowering!
The Real Bottleneck

Social Change
ValueChain
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 What’s needed?

If social problems are multi-dimensional, the solution

infrastructure should be multi-disciplinary
With members from the community, Academia and Industry, the solution infrastructure
should be able to:

Connect relevant knowledge to where it is needed the most!

A dynamic flux of diverse talents - Bonding, disintegrating, re-orienting and re-aligning,
forming a relevant new team for each social problem identified.

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 Example - The Millennium Villages

An initiative lead by Earth Institute (Columbia University)!

Earth Institute - Takes scientific advances to remote villages in Africa!

The Millennium Village effort is explicitly linked to achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Interventions include food production, nutrition, education, health services, roads, energy,
communications, water, sanitation, enterprise diversification and environmental
management.
Access to the most recent science-based technologies
Agroforestry, Insecticide-treated malaria bed nets, antiretroviral drugs, the Internet,
remote sensing, and geographic information systems.
It focuses on participatory community decision-making.
Community members and Scientific teams - Developing, Implementing & Managing
Throughout the continent, more than 400,000 people are part of this bold initiative

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 Connecting minds to transform a billion lives in 5475 days

Developing a systemic understanding of

the socio-economic challenges and
figuring the way out of them

A by-invitation-only network of highly

accomplished individuals representing
diverse knowledge streams - United by
the common urge to ensure a better world

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 Connecting minds to transform a billion lives in 5475 days

InteGreater empowers NGOs and Social entrepreneurs with

access to knowledge, expertise, means and methodologies that
were hitherto exclusive to business organizations

NGOs (& Social Entrepreneurs) Experts

NGOs will have access to accomplished experts,
who are willing to contribute their knowledge and
expertise
NGOs can network amongst themselves and share
best-practices across areas of work
Being able to know quickly, what’s needed to be
known, what’s needed to be done and how, is
“empowering”
Experts can see how their knowledge makes THE
difference in a multitude of social contexts
They can network with accomplished peers from
within and across domains
They can share and nurture knowledge, through
blogs, Q&A, web-conferences etc
Knowing that your knowledge is transforming
lives, is an incredible feeling!

A journey together through a billion lives, in 5475 days!

Become an InteGreater! Let’s make history!
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 Connecting minds to transform a billion lives in 5475 days

The intellectual infrastructure in its complete form

Alchemists

Domains Management Engineering Science Arts & Humanities

HR Society Mech Engg Society Archaeology Society Economics Society

Streams Sales Society

Strategy Society
CSE Society
Strategy Society
Psychology Society
Strategy Society
Law Society
Strategy Society
Finance Society Finance Society Finance Society Finance Society
Others (Mgmt Domain) Others (Mgmt Domain) Others (Mgmt Domain) Others (Mgmt Domain)

Experts are organized into “Virtual Societies” based on their respective streams of
specialization. Example, An expert in HR is organized into HR society
Each Stream society will have academicians, senior professionals and entrepreneurs as
members.
One academic institution per domain as a Principal Academic Partner, and at least one
academic institution (besides relevant companies) per Stream as a Knowledge Partner
The Alchemists - Board of Advisors - Popularly knowledgeable, Extra-ordinary achievers
with exemplary commitment towards social development and Innovation!

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 Connecting minds to transform a billion lives in 5475 days

Example of a Stream Society: HR Society

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Academicians B-school driven Business Network

Senior HR Professionals An Initiative of

Members ABC B-school
(by Invitation only)
Select representatives from Our Principal Academic Partner (PAP) in the
Business Management Domain
the HR vendor eco-system

Support select social causes with Intellectual capital

What Share and nurture Knowledge The Bottom line
Members Blogs, Q&A, Forums
Web conferences, Webinars, Webcasts
The place for the
smartest minds in the HR
get to Do! Collaborative Authoring stream to share
Network with Accomplished peers knowledge
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 Connecting minds to transform a billion lives in 5475 days

As InteGreater evolves, the contribution of Experts to NGOs and social

entrepreneurs evolves from simple Projects, to complex Causes
Projects
Who’s it for: Existing NGOs and Social
Entrepreneurs
Projects’ Focus: Streamlining & Scaling-up
People (HR)
Efficiency - Systems and Processes
Scaling up
Marketing (Branding, Communication etc)
Finance management etc
“Connecting” gets us there faster!
Connecting relevant NGOs, within and across
areas of work, and advising on leveraging
synergies
Connecting relevant businesses to NGOs
Connecting select NGOs and social
entrepreneurs to Funding agencies
Initiatives
Who’s it for: New & Potential NGOs
and Social Entrepreneurs
Initiatives’ Focus: Support
Infrastructure and Replication
Replicating successful models
Building the information infrastructure - To
ensure the measurability of Impact
Building the support infrastructure for
potential social entrepreneurs & NGOs
Promoting Social entrepreneurship
Events
The urge to do good is inherent,
and viral... Initiatives will beat the
resistance and make it easy!
Causes
Who’s it for: Governments,
NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs
Causes’ Focus: Frameworks for
solving complex problems
Systemic understanding of problems,
appreciating the inter-relationships
between the pieces
Ready-to-implement solution frameworks
Aggressive implementation, measuring
impact, bridging the gap
Ensuring there are no cracks or
leaks, as we run the last lap to
the finish-line!

Complexity
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 Pilot Interdependence Day
{100 Days} 15/08/2010
15/08/2009 HR related projects The first InteGreater Event
Countdown Begins Capacity building in Alchemists Speak of the 365 days

5475 Days other mgmt. disciplines and the next 635 days
InteGreater Awards to Experts &
NGOs(and Social Entrepreneurs)

Phase-1
{265 Days}
Run-up to
Countdown Projects: Streamlining & Scaling up
Cross-functional projects
{108 Days} Projects for a wide spectrum of NGOs
Projects in every Mgmt. function
100 NGOs Capacity building in other domains
Capacity building in HR Stream (Engineering, Science, Arts & Humanities)
Preparing for the Pilot! Planning & Preparation for Initiatives!

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 Connecting minds to transform a billion lives in 5475 days

Socially conscious, Accomplished, and Willing to share

knowledge
Driven by a desperate desire to ensure a better world for
the future generations!

If these describe you,You are an InteGreater!

InteGreater doesn’t need a great number of people... It just

needs Great people!

You still ask WHY?

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 Connecting minds to transform a billion lives in 5475 days

It took millions of failed experiments

Amoeba over millions of years, to perfect
‘Self-Replication”
Millions of years later, the planet
could see, hear and feel
Humans popped up millions of years later
as the “Intelligent” species with a
“Conscience”
It took us just a few thousand years to
“almost” bring down the house!

The planet awaits the promised “Intelligence” and “Conscience”, with an increasing desperation

In our hands, we carry the destiny of the next million generations! Do we still ask WHY?

Participate Propagate Accelerate

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