March 28, 2006

Where is UR focus???


Hi friends,

Here I have a masterpiece to think before u act.

Focus on Problem Vs Focus on Solution.

We all meet lot of problems all over the day. It’s our task to go through it. I feel the following will help us.

There are two methods to solve a problem,

  1. Focus on problem
  2. Focus on Solution

Many of us Focus on problem, it’s also a way to solve it. But there is another way focus on solution.

Here is an example for it.

Example 1:

When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.

And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil.

Example 2:

One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was 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 soapbox went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty.
No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee
amount to do so.
But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral : Always look for simple solutions.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Gansak,

U have updated your blog with a very useful info...the examples r really interesting....keep going with such wonderful stuff!!

Regards,
Latha