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Masrura Oishi is an over-thinker and procaffeinator. In her free time, she pretends to be a philosopher and does some development work for BRAC Social Innovation Lab. She invests her insulin pumped energy into reading, writing, traveling and living!

Blog series: SIL Habit Experiment 2018

Masrura Oishi
Team culture isn’t organic. It’s made of you, me and us.    There are so many great things about this team, that we don’t want to lose.  And so many things we want to introduce. (... Read More

Find out who made it to Round 2 of bracX!

Masrura Oishi
This has been a wonderful ride, working with all of our intrapreneurs through weekdays and weekends- seeing the passion, the search for teammates, the long brainstorming meetings, the late night submi... Read More

So we’ve launched bracX, now what?

Masrura Oishi
We weren’t sure how many people would join the launch, given it’s the month of Ramadan, and not many knew what it was about.   Then we started the morning, picking phone calls from 8.... Read More

Do Simple Ideas Interest You? Here’s One We’ll Try This Year

Apurba Mahboob and Masrura Oishi
We all have a pre-set idea of communication channels that work for different socio-economic groups. But what about a target audience, as busy as urban life could make them, flooded with texts, posters... Read More

May Innovation Forum: The FAQs for digitising your data collection!

Masrura Oishi
Are you planning to digitise your data collection method? Here is a list of questions you need to be ready for whether you are going to pitch it to your senior management, the frontline staff or your ... Read More

What kept us going through the hectic AoP/IoP sprints!

Masrura Oishi
Just a heads up on what SIL has been reading and sharing this month! Every year, mostly during Jan/Feb, we lose a valuable amount of time in hectic meeting schedules, specially when we are busy writin... Read More

Thinking of writing an Innovation Pitch? Break the myths with these wise words from Sir Ken Robinson

Masrura Oishi
If you are thinking of writing an innovation pitch, or preparing one in your head, there is one thing that deserves your attention. You should very well expect few people in the audience (or more) who... Read More

February Innovation Forum: Exploring the Base of the Pyramid with Jack Sim

Masrura Oishi
This February we had Jack Sim, the founder of BoP Hub and World Toilet Organisation visiting BRAC. We snatched the first opportunity we could find to talk to his team and hence we brought them over fo... Read More

January Innovation Forum: How to Tell Your BRAC Story…

Masrura Oishi
We wanted to start the first Innovation Forum of year 2017 on a grand note. We wanted to talk about something that touches everyone at the organisation, in both their personal and professional life. A... Read More

The One Habit that Transformed an Organisation: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Masrura Oishi
Book Review: The Power of Habit “I want to talk to you about worker safety” What CEO in the world starts his very first speech right on point? Unlike any other CEO in the history of the co... Read More
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