Focus on Problems vs. Focus on Solution

DanIno

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 manning 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 :



Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that

solves the problem..


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). In order to solve this problem,

it took them one decade and $12 million.. They develoed 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 Russians do....................??

The Russians used a PENCIL !!!


So, learn to focus on solutions not on problems

"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"



I read it here : http://www.scribd.com/doc/179392/Focus-on-Problems-vs-Focus-on-Solution

my-alja

heheheh gud one....

but i bet the fan that they used to blow up the box doesn't blow up other things as well

ajinomotonosuga

i think this topic fall into 'lateral thinking' categori

misal edward de bono proposed the use of word Po

kita selalu cakap cuma YES or No , cuba biasakan guna perkataan Po

so it trains the mind to focus on the Possibility

seribulan

Possibility is good thinking...if it is not possible...move on..there's so much more red carpetting in front of your life..why hamper yourself...