Focus India
Focus India is a flagship project within the bachelor degree program of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). Organized by students for students in their final year, it allows them to apply and enhance the skills learned in school. Through the close collaboration with industrial partners, Focus India will be in its 18th consecutive successful year.
Our Mission
Our aim is to unleash potential with purpose in three main areas. Through a hands-on approach, we want to learn from each other, selected guest speakers, partners, Swiss and Indian organisations. We want to learn how to foster innovation, facilitate digital transformation and empower different generations to create a purpose-driven and future-ready society.
Our Vision
Unleashing potential with our 3E-Approach
The 19th edition of FOCUS INDIA continues to foster the synergy between Switzerland’s business environment and India’s fast-growing economy. This year, we are seeking to learn how companies can align their mission, values and goals with a broader purpose beyond mere profit making by embracing purpose-led strategies with our three E approach: Enhancing Innovation and Creativity, enabling Digital Transformation, and empowering different generations.
Our 3 E Approach
Empowering Different Generations
Fostering an intergenerational connection is an investment in continuous expertise.
In today’s diverse workforce, individuals from various generations bring in their unique expectations, communication styles and work preferences. By empowering people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, we can significantly enhance collaboration and mutual learning. Empowering different generations means adopting new ways of working, new ways of being healthy and new ways of growing together for a prosperous future.
Enhancing Innovation &Creativity
Creativity is the key to sustainable growth and long-term success.
Albert Einstein had already understood this when he said “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”. How can companies foster creativity and innovation to come up with successful solutions? With our seminar, we will provide students with perspectives on many of the challenges stemming from globalization as well as digital transformation. We will achieve this by bringing together multiple faculties and nationalities so we can assure an interdisciplinary approach.
Enabling Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is the intersection of polarizing dynamics:
Process efficiency and employee wellbeing, technological optimization and individual empowerment. By deploying KPls, organisations can quantitatively measure progress, ensure the transformation journey stays on track, improve data-driven decision making, and foster long-term organisational resilience. But how to ensure motivation and the development of the relevant skills to use the new technologies? And how can the organisations gain a competitive advantage through digital transformation? Focus India will provide a holistic answer to this question.