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SUMMARY:CONNEXIONS - Webinar 05 | Design of Business
DESCRIPTION:Mr. Shashank Deshpande | Managing Partner, Pentathlon Ventures Co-Founder/C
 BO, Cubyts.com\nDesigning products & services that are desirable, usabl
 e & viable is a daunting challenge faced by most companies. Attracting 
 new customers and retaining them requires significant thinking & planni
 ng by the organization in various areas of user-centric innovation & bu
 siness strategies. Increasingly organizations are turning towards understan
 ding the user and customer-driven mindsets to ensure competitive advantage,
  stay profitable and improved satisfaction of the product or the service. D
 esign of business approaches this problem by bridging the customer desirabi
 lity and business-model viability phases. It’s important that every product
  manager in the organization understands and applies design thinking couple
 d with business viability to digitally transform and disrupt the business. 
 This talk aims to understand the role of the business designer to apply:\n1
 ) Design thinking to discover customer insights \n2) Product thinking to de
 sign innovative products or services, and \n3) Business thinking to deliver
  business value\nSpeaker Profile\nShashank has 30+ years of experience in c
 rafting user-centric digital transformations, with a unique combination of 
 business understanding, technical acumen, and design thinking. Currently, h
 e is the Managing Partner at Pentathlon Ventures - a boutique venture capit
 al company helping early-stage technology companies scale their business wi
 th expertise, eco-system & capital. Prior to Pentathlon Ventures, Shash
 ank was the Chief Design Officer - Asia at Globant. He co-founded Clarice T
 echnologies in 2008 - a niche consulting company focused on User-Centered D
 esign and technology development services to product companies which was ac
 quired by Globant Inc. in May 2015.\nShashank started his career by setting
  up a consulting company - Quipus Design that was acqui-hired by Frontier S
 oftware/Veritas.\nHe is a regular speaker at usability conferences and teac
 hes at design schools across India. He is co-Founder of HCI Professionals A
 ssociation of India, Chartered member of TiE & Member of ACM & SIGC
 HI. Shashank has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Indust
 rial Design from National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad.\n Register 
  (https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4216333189815/WN_Hvs3sxZ7QPa_so-
 slpKPZQ)\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<div class="row" style="margin: 0 -16px; padding: 0;"><div class="col-md-10
 "><p class="webinar-spek"><strong>Mr. Shashank Deshpande | Managing Partner
 , Pentathlon Ventures Co-Founder/CBO, Cubyts.com</strong></p><p class="webi
 nar-spek">Designing products &amp; services that are desirable, usable &amp
 ; viable is a daunting challenge faced by most companies. Attracting new cu
 stomers and retaining them requires significant thinking &amp; planning by 
 the organization in various areas of user-centric innovation &amp; business
  strategies. Increasingly organizations are turning towards understanding t
 he user and customer-driven mindsets to ensure competitive advantage, stay 
 profitable and improved satisfaction of the product or the service. Design 
 of business approaches this problem by bridging the customer desirability a
 nd business-model viability phases. It’s important that every product manag
 er in the organization understands and applies design thinking coupled with
  business viability to digitally transform and disrupt the business. This t
 alk aims to understand the role of the business designer to apply:<br />1) 
 Design thinking to discover customer insights <br />2) Product thinking to 
 design innovative products or services, and <br />3) Business thinking to d
 eliver business value</p><div class="web-desc"><p><strong>Speaker Profile</
 strong></p><p>Shashank has 30+ years of experience in crafting user-centric
  digital transformations, with a unique combination of business understandi
 ng, technical acumen, and design thinking. Currently, he is the Managing Pa
 rtner at Pentathlon Ventures - a boutique venture capital company helping e
 arly-stage technology companies scale their business with expertise, eco-sy
 stem &amp; capital. Prior to Pentathlon Ventures, Shashank was the Chief De
 sign Officer - Asia at Globant. He co-founded Clarice Technologies in 2008 
 - a niche consulting company focused on User-Centered Design and technology
  development services to product companies which was acquired by Globant In
 c. in May 2015.</p><p>Shashank started his career by setting up a consultin
 g company - Quipus Design that was acqui-hired by Frontier Software/Veritas
 .</p><p>He is a regular speaker at usability conferences and teaches at des
 ign schools across India. He is co-Founder of HCI Professionals Association
  of India, Chartered member of TiE &amp; Member of ACM &amp; SIGCHI. Shasha
 nk has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Industrial Desig
 n from National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad.</p><p><a class="butto
 n subbutton btn btn-default presenation" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webi
 nar/register/4216333189815/WN_Hvs3sxZ7QPa_so-slpKPZQ" target="_blank" rel="
 noopener noreferrer"> Register </a></p></div></div><div class="col-md-2"><i
 mg class="img-speak" style="border-radius: 50%;" src="images/webinars/conne
 xions/Shashank-Deshpande.jpg" width="500" height="500" /></div></div>
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