The Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur got the prestigious opportunity to host Mr Kumar Anshu, Founder & Chief Executive Officer – Bots’ n Brains for an engrossing guest lecture as a part of our flagship guest lecture series “Pratyaksh”. Mr Kumar is an Entrepreneur; IP Evangelist, and a Spokesperson for various platforms. An alumnus of IIT Bombay and IIM Lucknow along with work experience of over a decade in fields like market research, patent research, analytics and operations, Mr Kumar has well established himself as a stellar performer and adroitly balances it with his passion for designing and delivering fun filled training by running an education initiative.
The session commenced with the introduction of the fact that how the industry is delving into the maze of analytics and data science and how predominant it has become in any field of the industry today, which was followed by underlining the skill-sets of a modern data scientist, with mathematics, statistics, domain know-how, soft skills and visualization topping the list. He further went on discussing how the combination of the above-mentioned skills along with the intricate combination of Software Engineering and Data Communication in varying proportions leads to Data Engineering, Data Analysis, and Data Science.
The lecture then took a different track when Mr Kumar introduced the sutra Ekadhiken Purven (one more than previous) and TRIZ (Teoriya, Resheniya, Izobretatelskikh, Zadatch) which is the theory of inventive problem solving that brings to light the principle of Vedic mathematics and its implications. Moving forward, he also emphasized on the stages of solving a problem, which being identifying, solving and substantiating a concept, these were an important takeaway for the students. Mr Kumar then focussed the attention of the students on the contradiction matrix and 3 lenses (Segmentation, Blessing in Disguise and Colour Change) that aids in identifying the contradiction which is the nipping bud to the problem.
Towards the end of the session, Mr Kumar answered the queries of the mesmerized audience and asked all the students to identify their Ikagai (a Japanese phrase for “Reason of Being”) and through the brilliant experiment left the students amazed and motivated to follow their passion fearlessly and assist other people to do the same.
At last, he encouraged all the budding entrepreneurs to identify their north star and figure out what they love, their needs, what they can be paid for and what is the one thing that they are good at.
Ending the lecture on a note filled with positivity, he left the students with a zeal of passion to break through all barriers and do something for the betterment of society.