The new Innovation Council for 2014-2015, will consist of the following members :
Sumant Sood
Suparna Mitra
K. S. Ghai
Saumen Bhaumik
Rajeshwari Shrinivasan
Rajnarayan
Vellingiri P.
N. E. Sridhar
Santhosh S.
B. Manimaran
Bidyut Nath
C. Panneer Selvam
Suparna Mitra
K. S. Ghai
Saumen Bhaumik
Rajeshwari Shrinivasan
Rajnarayan
Vellingiri P.
N. E. Sridhar
Santhosh S.
B. Manimaran
Bidyut Nath
C. Panneer Selvam
In order to to reinforce innovation culture in Titan, the Titan Innovation Council was formed in May 2010 with a strong 18 member CFT, covering the entire width and breadth of Titan businesses.
This Council, in the last two years, had done many “first of its kind” jobs to spread the culture of Innovation like :
a) Innovation Bazaar
b) Interweave
c) Innovation Challenge program
d) Innovation website
e) Launch of Innoverse in TITAN etc
b) Interweave
c) Innovation Challenge program
d) Innovation website
e) Launch of Innoverse in TITAN etc
These programs/events have definitely helped evince keen interest amongst all Titanians and has enabled keep the Innovation flag of TITAN flying high.
It is said that diversity, and the newness that comes with diversity is one of the key ingredients to innovation. Keeping this in mind, and to bring in fresh perspective and ideas, to continue our innovations efforts, it is felt that the time has come to hand over the baton to a new set of Innovation Council Members.
Before I announce the names of the new TIC members, please join me in congratulating the TIC members (May 2010 to May 2012) who have brought many laurels to TITAN with their efforts !!
Congratulations M/s Biju Alexander, Ganesh V, Manimaran B (Jew-QA), Minor G ( HR ), Nirmal Lobo (Corporate), Palani Kumar A, Prakash B S (BE Group), Rajeshwari Srinivasan, Ramesh C S (Systems), Revathi Kant, Saumen Bhaumik, Somprabh, Srinivasan A R, Vellingiri P, Nagaraj B.V
The new Innovation Council for 2012-2013, will consist of the following members
Geo Heads : Saumen, Ghai K S, Suparna Mitra, Ganesh
Jewellery : Santhosh, Manimaran, Bhuwan Gaurav, C Panneer Selvam
Watches : Vellingiri, C. Chandrasekar
Eyewear : Sharad, Bidyut
Fastrack : Simeran Bhasin
Shared services: Sumant Sood, NE Sridhar, Chidanand AC
PED : Sathish, Sridhar N P
HR : Raj Narayan
Jewellery : Santhosh, Manimaran, Bhuwan Gaurav, C Panneer Selvam
Watches : Vellingiri, C. Chandrasekar
Eyewear : Sharad, Bidyut
Fastrack : Simeran Bhasin
Shared services: Sumant Sood, NE Sridhar, Chidanand AC
PED : Sathish, Sridhar N P
HR : Raj Narayan
Please join me in congratulating the new TIC members, and look forward to many more exciting initiatives from them.
Bhaskar Bhat
July 2012
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The Titan Innovation Council was formed in April 2010 with Bhaskar Bhat as the Chairman and 18 members from across the Company, led by Mr L R Natrajan.
The Titan Innovation Council (TIC) has been mandated to reinforce the innovation culture at Titan, and over a period of time, ensure that innovation gets integrated into business strategy.
The 5 actionable areas towards which the TIC is working are:
1. Innovation enablers
2. Enhance capability to innovate
3. Idea generation & selection
4. Rewards & recognition
5. Measurement on innovation
1. Innovation enablers
2. Enhance capability to innovate
3. Idea generation & selection
4. Rewards & recognition
5. Measurement on innovation
Under each of these, activities are being planned:
1. Innovation enablers – The Innovation Bazaar in September 2010, the Product Innovation through Partnering, the daily mail on innovation, this Innovation E Newsletter are all Innovation enablers that have been completed. Inviting a series of guest speakers, visiting innovative companies and holding the Innovation bazaar @ North & West are plans for the year 2011-12.
2. Enhance capability to innovate – Structured training to improve the innovation capability within the Company which includes creating Innovation Champions, e- learning programs , conducting Innovation sharing sessions between divisions and Depts , the Innovation School of management, learning on TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving – a problem solving, analysis and forecasting tool derived from the study of patterns of invention) and the commencement of the Titan Innovation Centre.
3. Idea generation & selection – Creation of appropriate structured platforms for idea generation & selection. Tata Innoverse, Tata Innoverse for business associates and vendors, TGIF initiation and posting of a BIG idea are some of the initiatives.
4. Reward & recognition – The Innovation Bazaar, Tata Innoverse and Innovation school of management are platforms for recognizing innovation across the Company.
5. Measurement of innovation – The development of an Innovation Index, using the Tata Innometer for bench marking as the first step and then building on it.
