1. Should women have children after 35?
No, 35 children are more than enough!
2. No one has ever complained of a parachute not opening.
3. Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes annual free trip
around the Sun.
4. Your future depends on your dreams, So go to sleep.
5. Alcohol kills slowly. So what? Who is in a hurry?
6. Work fascinates me. I can look at it for hours!
7. God made relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends!
8. Can you do anything that other people can't? Sure, I can read my
handwriting!
9. Do you know of an Indian who parked his car in front of a board
which said: FINE FOR PARKING ?
10. A drunk was hauled into court. "Mister," the judge began,"you've
been brought here for drinking." "Great," the drunk
exclaimed
11. Whom are you working for? Same people. My wife and four kids.
12. I heard you have a cat that can say her own name.Yes , Meow.
13. Divorce has become so common that my wife and I are staying married
just to be different.
14. When a wife was asked,"What book do you like best?" she answers:"My
husband's cheque book."
15. Girlfriend:"And are you sure you love me and noone else?"
Boyfriend: "Dead sure! I checked the whole list again yesterday."
16. Waiter: Would you like your coffee black?
Customer: What other colours do you have?
17. My father is so old that when he was in school, history was called
current affairs.
18. Teacher: Now children, if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped
him, what virtue would I be showing?
Student: Brotherly love!
19. Teacher: Now, Sam, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before
eating?
Sam : No, sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.
20. Dad: Son, what do you want for your birthday?
Son : Not much, Dad, just a radio with a sports car around it!
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Problem vs Solution
Case 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.
Case 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.
Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems.
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.
Case 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.
Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems.
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