When we talk about social responsibility and how companies can do it, we should keep in mind that enabling people to do the next steps on their own is key. In whatever sector we are and how we engage – in every program digital access should be part of it. Do you support housing programs?…
Category: change
Just wondering why we follow old processes instead of trying new pathways to combine business and social needs
Sometimes I just wonder how the world can look if we connect business and social in a more natural way, if we do not separate it into two different worlds, if we ask how to do business in a way that in every business activity we do we consider and include the social impact, too….
When people ask how business can benefit from social activities – learnings in India
Often I’m asked: How was it in India? What did you experience? Is it safe? There must have been a lot of poverty?! Do you go back again? Working with a NGO as a business representative ?A lot of questions and I could tell many stories, describe places, summarize events … I might be wrong,…
Do Not do things just better, but differently
“Over time, markets change so much that it’s not enough to be better at what you do. You need to do something differently.” That’s what I stumbled across in one of the articles on business innovation and what does not go out of my mind. What if we apply it not just in traditional business…
India: what stigmatized patients need – besides medical treatment
Understanding patients’ needs, care that goes beyond medical treatment and technical aid – we all have heard about it, but what it really means to be and to conduct a meaningful life as a stigmatized patient is often still not researched enough and definitely underestimated. I had a chance to learn about a special training…
Is India normal? A day in Delhi – a day of contrasts
I’ve come to Delhi for a business meeting. While walking from the hotel in Oklah, an industrial zone in Delhi, to the company I’m meeting with, I see a lot of people living in very small houses. Houses? A kind of building, houses is exaggerated… Obviously, the people staying here have a very low income….
Digital knowledge for kindergarten teachers in rural India
It was an amazing 2 days learning experience to all of us when the kindergarten teachers from the rural area in Kerala and Tamil Nadu (South India/ATTAPPADI) started the devices, learned how to handle it, how to write emails and got access to Internet for the first time in their life. Probably one of those…
When a cow is grown by sisters …
The story has been published yesterday on a local newspaper and the sisters proudly show me the article when I visit them. “The story started two years back when I went for a meeting to a priest’s house who besides being a priest is taking care of some cows, too. I really like cows and…
DELHI, where are you going?
I had read about it even in Europe, several times: The bad smog in Delhi. Even got some advice via email before leaving that the air pollution has reached high levels after Diwali and even before. I do not want to explain the mixture of adverse weather, farmers burning leftover paddy straw, Diwali and subsequent…
Understanding Social entrepreneurship – overcoming traditional barriers
Have you heard about social entrepreneurship? You still wonder what it is all about? There might be different interpretations and understanding on what it is, different ways of emphazing more the social or the entrepreneurial aspect in it. However, thinking in social and business worlds, making our business activities and social engagment two completely separated…
Go India, go future! 