[ZOO-PSC] off-topic

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2012/09/20 21:25, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> I enjoyed this little email so I am forwarding to the monkeys.
Frugal Innovation, often referred to as Jugaad in India.
Some interesting reading below
http://www.amazon.com/Jugaad-Innovation-Flexible-Generate-Breakthrough/dp/1118249747
http://jugaadinnovation.com/

Venka

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> -jeff
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>      Subject: PLAN B
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>      Issue 01.
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>      When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they discovered
>      that ballpoint pens would not work without gravity (or zero
>      gravity), then the ink would not go down to the surface on which it
>      is desired to write.
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>      Solution A) Solve this problem, it took six years and $ 12 million.
>      They developed a pen that worked: zero gravity, upside down,
>      underwater, in practically any
>      including glass surface and in a range of temperatures ranging from
>      below freezing to over 300 degrees Celsius.
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>      Solution B) And what did the Russians? The Russians used a pencil!
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>      Issue 02.
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>      One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was
>      the case of the empty soap box, which happened in one of the largest
>      cosmetics companies in Japan. The company received a complaint from
>      a consumer who bought a soap box and empty. Immediately the
>      authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which
>      transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery
>      department. For some reason, one soap box went empty for the
>      assembly line. The officials asked his engineers to find a
>      good and fast solution.
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>      Solution A) Immediately, the engineers set out to work to devise an
>      X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors and handled by two
>      people and monitor all soap boxes that pass through the line to make
>      sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and fast.
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>      Solution B) When a common employee in a small company was posed the
>      same problem, did not enter into complications of X-rays, robots,
>      computers or complicated; instead suggested another solution: He
>      bought a strong industrial fan and pointed towards the assembly. He
>      turned on the fan, and while each box passed the fan, which were
>      empty just flew out of the production line.
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>      Problem 03.
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>      A hotel magnate Hindi traveled to a city for a second time a year
>      away from his first voyage, at the counter of a star hotel in the
>      bottom of the chain, the employee smiles and greets him saying:
>      Welcome back sir, Good to see you back in our hotel; greatly
>      surprised because despite being such an important person, he likes
>      the anonymity and hard the employee would have such a good memory to
>      know who was there a year before, wanted to impose the same system
>      in its chain of hotels as this simple gesture made him feel good. On
>      his return immediately set to work on this issue to their employees
>      to find a solution to your request.
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>      Solution A) The solution was to find the best face recognition
>      software, database, special cameras, response time
>      in micro seconds, employee training, etc.. Etc. With a cost of
>      approximately $ 2.5 million.
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>      Solution B) magnate chose to travel again and bribe the employee of
>      that hotel to reveal the technology applied. The employee does not
>      accept any bribes, but humbly told the tycoon as they did, he said:
>      "Look, sir, we have an arrangement with the taxi drivers who brought
>      him up here, they ask if you have stayed at the hotel to which it is
>      bringing, and if yes, then when you leave your luggage at the
>      counter here, makes us a sign, and thus earn a dollar. "
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>      Moral: Do not complicate your work! Conceive the simplest solution
>      to the problem. Learn to focus on solutions and not on problems.
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>      THERE'S ALWAYS A PLAN B.
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