Govindappa Venkataswamy

RAKESH MAHAJAN Student Number- M00470967 HRM 1004 MANAGING ORGANISATIONS MODULE LEADER- Dr Sara CALVO MODULE TUTOR- Dr PARISA DASHTIPOUR WHAT ARE THE LESSONS ON LEADERSHIP THAT ARAVIND HOSPITAL CASE BRINGS FORWARD FOR YOU? HOW DID ARAVIND BOOST ITS EFFICIENCY FROM TWO TO SEVEN TIMES (MCDONALDIZATION) ARAVIND EYE CARE HOSPITAL-McDONALDIZATION INTRODUCTION: In the present scenario achieving effective and efficient health care services is an acute issue that needs an

late 1980s.’(Mehta and Shenoy, (2011). The hospital has achieved spectacular success due to their focused aims and working hard towards achieving their goals, to cure needless blindness in India, even if it was free of charge for the poor. Dr. Venkataswamy made his hospital well known all over the world and achieved a lot of respect for his contribution towards the

the clever application and adaptation of these plans, all under one roof by a single organization in multiple areas such as leadership, strategy development, design thinking, customer care/ service and operations. The brainchild of Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy, Aravind Eye Hospital was shockingly created with zero capital, no business plan or any kind of strategy in place. Services were simply made available in any form to cater to the needs of every patients, having one goal in mind, “To give Sight

Task Your task is to present organizations assigned to your group, discuss them from the perspective of topics addressed in the Frugal Innovation report, and to discuss what, if anything, can be transferred and used in the developed countries. Alternatively, you may brainstorm about the possibilities how some business from the developed countries could work with and help these organizations. Introduction About 40 million people in the world are blind and India is home to 1/3 of the world’s

Introduction In 1976 Dr Govindappa Venkataswamy (Dr V), a retired Indian ophthalmologist founded The Aravind Eye Clinic bringing about much needed innovative change for the treatment of cataracts in India. Inspiration was sought from watching the processes of others, learning from them, applying the systematic change and the successful of mobilisation of key resources in the most cost-effective manner. Dr V 's entrepreneurial drive and passion have brought huge sustainable social value to communities

William Duran Aravind Case Study Introduction In a country plagued by curable and needless blindness, 58 year-old surgeon Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy recognized upon retirement that his 100,000 sight-restoring surgeries were not enough of an impact to fight blindness in India and cure the 12 million people affected by it. With a big dream, but no money, no business plan, and no safety net, he embarked on a journey to start an organization with a single purpose in mind: to give sight for all. Starting

In 1978, China started its economic reform, which opened the door for entrepreneurs to venture in the rural and agricultural sectors (Naughton, 1995). This decision has led hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and can be considered one of the most significant events in poverty reduction in the twentieth century (Urban & Springerlink, 2010). Through the newly created firms, jobs were created and people were able to access a range of products and services which eventually effected the total