Keep It Simple Stupid!
A professor in a university talked about the case of the "Empty Soap", which happened in one of the biggest Cosmetic Company.
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 a fortune doing so.
What happened to the small company when they faced the same problem?
The Smart Solution : When this same problem was posed by a small company, they did not get into complications of X-rays, etc but they bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan no, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.
The professor continued talking about the case that 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 develop 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........................????
Guest it !!
The Russians used a Pencil !!!
The professor continued talking about the case when he had to visit a mental asylum, the professor asked the Director how to determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.
"Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub."
"Oh. I understand," said the professor "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."
"No," said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?"
People tend to ramble, never getting to the point. They focus more on showing what they know, rather than on what needs to be achieved. They focus on problems more than the solutions.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
A professor in a university talked about the case of the "Empty Soap", which happened in one of the biggest Cosmetic Company.
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 a fortune doing so.
What happened to the small company when they faced the same problem?
The Smart Solution : When this same problem was posed by a small company, they did not get into complications of X-rays, etc but they bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan no, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.
The professor continued talking about the case that 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 develop 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........................????
Guest it !!
The Russians used a Pencil !!!
The professor continued talking about the case when he had to visit a mental asylum, the professor asked the Director how to determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.
"Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub."
"Oh. I understand," said the professor "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."
"No," said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?"
People tend to ramble, never getting to the point. They focus more on showing what they know, rather than on what needs to be achieved. They focus on problems more than the solutions.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
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