Second example:-
One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was
the
case
of the empty soap box, which happened in one of Japan's biggest
cosmetics
companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had
bought
a soap box 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 soap
box 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 soap boxes that
passed
through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt,
they
worked hard and they worked fast but they spent whoopee amount to
do so. But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was
posed with the same problem, 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 soap box
passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the
line.
Moral of the story: KISS (Keep It Simple,Stupid) i.e. always look
for
simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves
the
problem :
So, learn to focus on solutions not on problems
Hahaha sometime we just like to complicate things around cause we
thought we know the problem...
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
"If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have
anything"
"If you look at what you have in life, you have everything"
who else.., The Solution Man