Juggaar

Jugaad (alternatively Juggaar) is a colloquial Hindi (Devanagiri: जुगाड़, Latin: Jugāṛ), Urdu (Urdu alphabet: جگاڑ, Latin: Jugāṛ) and Punjabi word, which has various meanings depending on the situation. Roughly translated, jugaad is a "hack". It could also refer to an innovative fix or a simple work-around, a solution that bends the rules, or a resource that can be used in such a way. It is also often used to signify creativity—to make existing things work, or to create new things with meager resources.

Jugaad is increasingly accepted as a management technique and is recognized all over the world as an acceptable form of frugal engineering at peak in India. Companies in India are adopting Jugaad as a practise to reduce research and development costs. Jugaad also applies to any kind of creative and out-of-the-box thinking or life hacking that maximizes resources for a company and its stakeholders.

According to experts at the University of Cambridge, jugaad is an "important way out of the current economic crisis in developed economies and also holds important lessons for emerging economies".

Pronounced the same in Hindi and Urdu, it is pronounced as "jugaard" or "jugaardh", while in Punjabi it is spelled as jagaard. Urdu transcriptions spell it as "jugaar" because the last letter in the Urdu word is closer to R than D (ṛē).

Jugaad roughly corresponds to do-it-yourself (DIY) in the US, hacking in the UK, zìzhǔ chuàngxīn (自主创新) in China, Trick 17 in Germany, gambiarra in Brazil, système D. in France, or jua kali in Kenya; in addition, equivalent words within South Africa are ’n boer maak ’n plan in Afrikaans, izenzele in Zulu, iketsetse in Sotho and itirele in Tswana.

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