Few takeaways from the 3rd NEP Conclave

3rd National NEP Meet, Delhi: Holistic Education, Academia & Industry Connect - Few Pointers I gathered from Immersive Panel Session Chaired by Dr Anunaya Chaubey and from the talks by other panellists:

• Pedagogy vs Heutagogy 
• Continuous Up-Skilling
• New Job Roles & Profiles
• Domain knowledge
• Middle Path (Madhya Marg) approach to Generalist vs Specialist
• Industry Academia to Co-lab in areas of future value creation
• System understanding and thinking (connecting the dots, relationships, empathy and creative action)
• Education for Living or/and for Earning! Or overall well being!
• Social Science workers and their professional inclusiveness in industry
• Enabling MSMEs to attract talent 

Is the industry agile enough in mindset and action to adapt and adopt this!

Is the Academia getting tailored to this paradigm shift !

Who will be the first mover to design this product, the future worker!

The MOE and Industry have set the stage to initiate way forward.

While the profiles of Industry and Edu institutions and persona is diverse and individual intent different in terms of wealth creation and knowledge creation, 

the common conscience needs to be value creation which shall spread vertically across the pyramid. 

Ravishankar Vallabhajosyula, 30th July 2023

Few Pointers on Sustainable Packaging

The concept of modern-day packaging has boomed with the advent of the large consumer purchasing power, multiple brands with diverse competing SKUs in retail shelves and FMCG manufacturing companies besides advertising collaterals. While purpose of packaging is primarily functional that of protection, storage and for shipment, its commercial need in the context of design to attract, shelf throw and pick up to convert the product to sale is its predominant attribute practised by commerce.

The issue is Systemic in nature involving multiple stakeholders primarily business houses including the end consumer responsible to solve and resolve the design, generation and disposal of non-degradable packaging materials and its management. A wicked problem.

The approach conceptually and strategically may be to:

·       Identify the bulk of products which generate waste along with institutional of both public and private consumption and apply the 3Es principle (educate, engineer, enforce)

·       Create by design centric businesses which produce bio degradable packaging systems and solutions housed in MSMEs and which have the economies of scale to replace the existing solutions using natural materials, innovative additives and processes

·       Promote sustainability indices in packaging and incentivise the manufacturers and most importantly the marketeers.

·       Create a value proposition for sustainable packaging which becomes the next game changer amongst brands in retail both above and below the line advertising and marketing

·       Design and develop well-engineered solutions for packaging life cycle management both at enterprise and end consumer level which start-up’s can take up as business opportunities across urban and upcountry markets.

·       Innovations in brick and mortar retail formats and design models which minimise packaged products creating new buying behaviour among consumers.

 

Ravishankar Aug 2022 Notes