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Covid is a calamity--- Potential time to innovate

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Mohan Kulkarni PM Specialist| MBK Consultants Pune, Maharashtra State. India, India
Covid is calamity and life is pushed against wall. struggle for survival--will it hold potential to innovate? How much ? Any calamity is a big trigger for innovations.
It will be big trigger for innovative thinking. What can be the probable areas where those innovative projects .if undertaken would better and make the life affordable for millions of downtrodden poor people across the world who suffered terribly during covid?
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
It's not a given that any innovation that arises out of this pandemic situation will benefit the "downtrodden".

I expect that governmental administrations will see the greatest innovation. This is because the pandemic has a way to show gaps and cracks in public services. Take for example Singapore who saw an increase in COVID-19 cases through the migrant workforce.
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May 14, 2020 11:02 AM
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Dear Stephanne
I agree with you.
Further I feel there will be innovations in town planning concepts and planning and equally in the area of industrial planning at government level to minimse the risk due to large spreads of cities and industries. Also there will be innovation in city transportaion systems, banking services where literacy is very low and health care areas --based on the gaps found in public services and governments sluggish functioning.
Hope this happens in the hand s of governments as their prime duty for those poor guys to be served better.
Thanks for your inputs
Warm regards
Mohan
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Mohan Kulkarni PM Specialist| MBK Consultants Pune, Maharashtra State. India, India
May 14, 2020 10:40 AM
Replying to Stéphane Parent
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It's not a given that any innovation that arises out of this pandemic situation will benefit the "downtrodden".

I expect that governmental administrations will see the greatest innovation. This is because the pandemic has a way to show gaps and cracks in public services. Take for example Singapore who saw an increase in COVID-19 cases through the migrant workforce.
Dear Stephanne
I agree with you.
Further I feel there will be innovations in town planning concepts and planning and equally in the area of industrial planning at government level to minimse the risk due to large spreads of cities and industries. Also there will be innovation in city transportaion systems, banking services where literacy is very low and health care areas --based on the gaps found in public services and governments sluggish functioning.
Hope this happens in the hand s of governments as their prime duty for those poor guys to be served better.
Thanks for your inputs
Warm regards
Mohan
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Keith Novak Tukwila, Wa, United States
I agree with Stéphane.

Two old sayings come to mind:

Necessity is the mother of invention (Laziness being the father. :-)
Never let a crisis go to waste.

If you look at the 9/11 attacks as a case study, I worked at the aircraft manufacturer on that day and all work ground to a halt for several days as everyone tried to come up with ways to prevent a future attack. The result was somewhat of a PM miracle. A ballistic flight deck door was designed, manufactured, tested, certified, and retrofitted throughout the fleet in an astonishing time.

Meanwhile, other interests used the crisis as an opportunity to capitalize on peoples fears to reduce liberties for the sake of power and profit in the name of safety.

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