The Only Thing Necessary For The Unfortunate To Get Worse... Is For The Fortunate To Do Nothing!

Connecting minds to transform a billion lives in 5475 days
The only thing necessary for the unfortunate to get

worse... is for the fortunate to do nothing!
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Social Change - Where’s the bottleneck?
Social Problems are dynamically complex problems
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Great Ideas, as they transform
wishes into real possibilities,
are the most empowering!
The Real Bottleneck
Social Change
ValueChain
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What’s needed?
If social problems are multi-dimensional, the solution

infrastructure should be multi-disciplinary
With members from the community, Academia and Industry, the solution infrastructure
should be able to:
Connect relevant knowledge to where it is needed the most!

A dynamic flux of diverse talents - Bonding, disintegrating, re-orienting and re-aligning,
forming a relevant new team for each social problem identified.
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Example - The Millennium Villages
An initiative lead by Earth Institute (Columbia University)!

Earth Institute - Takes scientific advances to remote villages in Africa!
The Millennium Village effort is explicitly linked to achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Interventions include food production, nutrition, education, health services, roads, energy,
communications, water, sanitation, enterprise diversification and environmental
management.
Access to the most recent science-based technologies
Agroforestry, Insecticide-treated malaria bed nets, antiretroviral drugs, the Internet,
remote sensing, and geographic information systems.
It focuses on participatory community decision-making.
Community members and Scientific teams - Developing, Implementing & Managing
Throughout the continent, more than 400,000 people are part of this bold initiative
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Developing a systemic understanding of

the socio-economic challenges and
figuring the way out of them
A by-invitation-only network of highly

accomplished individuals representing
diverse knowledge streams - United by
the common urge to ensure a better world
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InteGreater empowers NGOs and Social entrepreneurs with

access to knowledge, expertise, means and methodologies that
were hitherto exclusive to business organizations
NGOs (& Social Entrepreneurs) Experts

Experts can see how their knowledge makes THE
NGOs will have access to accomplished experts,
difference in a multitude of social contexts
who are willing to contribute their knowledge and
expertise They can network with accomplished peers from
NGOs can network amongst themselves and share within and across domains
best-practices across areas of work They can share and nurture knowledge, through
Being able to know quickly, what’s needed to be blogs, Q&A, web-conferences etc
known, what’s needed to be done and how, is
Knowing that your knowledge is transforming
“empowering”
lives, is an incredible feeling!
A journey together through a billion lives, in 5475 days!

Become an InteGreater! Let’s make history!
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The intellectual infrastructure in its complete form

Alchemists
Domains Management Engineering Science Arts & Humanities
HR Society Mech Engg Society Archaeology Society Economics Society
Streams Sales Society

Strategy Society
CSE Society
Strategy Society
Psychology Society
Strategy Society
Law Society
Strategy Society
Finance Society Finance Society Finance Society Finance Society
Others (Mgmt Domain) Others (Mgmt Domain) Others (Mgmt Domain) Others (Mgmt Domain)
Experts are organized into “Virtual Societies” based on their respective streams of
specialization. Example, An expert in HR is organized into HR society
Each Stream society will have academicians, senior professionals and entrepreneurs as
members.
One academic institution per domain as a Principal Academic Partner, and at least one
academic institution (besides relevant companies) per Stream as a Knowledge Partner
The Alchemists - Board of Advisors - Popularly knowledgeable, Extra-ordinary achievers
with exemplary commitment towards social development and Innovation!
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Example of a Stream Society: HR Society
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Academicians B-school driven Business Network
Senior HR Professionals An Initiative of

Members ABC B-school
(by Invitation only)
Select representatives from Our Principal Academic Partner (PAP) in the
Business Management Domain
the HR vendor eco-system
Support select social causes with Intellectual capital

What Share and nurture Knowledge The Bottom line
Members Blogs, Q&A, Forums
Web conferences, Webinars, Webcasts
The place for the
smartest minds in the HR
get to Do! Collaborative Authoring stream to share
Network with Accomplished peers knowledge
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As InteGreater evolves, the contribution of Experts to NGOs and social

entrepreneurs evolves from simple Projects, to complex Causes
Projects Initiatives Causes
Who’s it for: Governments,
Who’s it for: New & Potential NGOs NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs
Who’s it for: Existing NGOs and Social and Social Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs Causes’ Focus: Frameworks for
Initiatives’ Focus: Support solving complex problems
Projects’ Focus: Streamlining & Scaling-up Infrastructure and Replication
People (HR) Systemic understanding of problems,
Efficiency - Systems and Processes Replicating successful models appreciating the inter-relationships
Scaling up Building the information infrastructure - To between the pieces
Marketing (Branding, Communication etc) ensure the measurability of Impact Ready-to-implement solution frameworks
Finance management etc Building the support infrastructure for Aggressive implementation, measuring
“Connecting” gets us there faster! potential social entrepreneurs & NGOs impact, bridging the gap
Connecting relevant NGOs, within and across Promoting Social entrepreneurship
areas of work, and advising on leveraging Events Ensuring there are no cracks or
synergies leaks, as we run the last lap to
The urge to do good is inherent,
Connecting relevant businesses to NGOs and viral... Initiatives will beat the the finish-line!
Connecting select NGOs and social resistance and make it easy!
entrepreneurs to Funding agencies
Complexity
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Pilot Interdependence Day
{100 Days} 15/08/2010
15/08/2009 HR related projects The first InteGreater Event
Countdown Begins Capacity building in Alchemists Speak of the 365 days
5475 Days other mgmt. disciplines and the next 635 days
InteGreater Awards to Experts &
NGOs(and Social Entrepreneurs)
Phase-1
{265 Days}
Run-up to
Countdown Projects: Streamlining & Scaling up
Cross-functional projects
{108 Days} Projects for a wide spectrum of NGOs
Projects in every Mgmt. function
100 NGOs Capacity building in other domains
Capacity building in HR Stream (Engineering, Science, Arts & Humanities)
Preparing for the Pilot! Planning & Preparation for Initiatives!
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Socially conscious, Accomplished, and Willing to share

knowledge
Driven by a desperate desire to ensure a better world for
the future generations!
If these describe you,You are an InteGreater!
InteGreater doesn’t need a great number of people... It just

needs Great people!
You still ask WHY?

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It took millions of failed experiments

Amoeba over millions of years, to perfect
‘Self-Replication”
Millions of years later, the planet
could see, hear and feel
Humans popped up millions of years later
as the “Intelligent” species with a
“Conscience”
It took us just a few thousand years to
“almost” bring down the house!
The planet awaits the promised “Intelligence” and “Conscience”, with an increasing desperation
In our hands, we carry the destiny of the next million generations! Do we still ask WHY?
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Connecting minds to transform a billion lives in 5475 days

The only thing necessary for the unfortunate to get

Social Problems are dynamically complex problems

If social problems are multi-dimensional, the solution

Connect relevant knowledge to where it is needed the most!

An initiative lead by Earth Institute (Columbia University)!

Developing a systemic understanding of

A by-invitation-only network of highly

InteGreater empowers NGOs and Social entrepreneurs with

NGOs (& Social Entrepreneurs) Experts

A journey together through a billion lives, in 5475 days!

The intellectual infrastructure in its complete form

Domains Management Engineering Science Arts & Humanities

HR Society Mech Engg Society Archaeology Society Economics Society

Streams Sales Society

Example of a Stream Society: HR Society

Senior HR Professionals An Initiative of

Support select social causes with Intellectual capital

As InteGreater evolves, the contribution of Experts to NGOs and social

Socially conscious, Accomplished, and Willing to share

If these describe you,You are an InteGreater!

InteGreater doesn’t need a great number of people... It just

You still ask WHY?

It took millions of failed experiments

Participate Propagate Accelerate

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