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<blockquote data-quote="rith" data-source="post: 5356920" data-attributes="member: 21277"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue">Case # 1 : When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens would not work at zero gravity (ink will not flow down to the writing surface). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Red">Solution # 1 </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Red">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.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Purple"><strong>Solution # 2 </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Purple"><strong>And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue">Case # 2 </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue">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. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue">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.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Red">Solution # 1 </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Red">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. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Red">No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee amount to do so. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Purple">Solution # 2 </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Purple">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. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Purple">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. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Green"><strong><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /></strong></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="color: Black"><strong><p style="text-align: center">Moral</p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="color: Black"><strong>· Always look for simple solutions.</p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="color: Black"><strong>· Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems.</p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="color: Black"><strong>· Always focus on solutions & not on problems. </p><p></strong></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rith, post: 5356920, member: 21277"] [SIZE="5"][COLOR="Blue"]Case # 1 : When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens would not work at zero gravity (ink will not flow down to the writing surface). [/COLOR] [COLOR="Red"]Solution # 1 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.[/COLOR] [COLOR="Purple"][B]Solution # 2 And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil. [/B][/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]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.[/COLOR] [COLOR="Red"]Solution # 1 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. [/COLOR] [COLOR="Purple"]Solution # 2 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. [/COLOR] [COLOR="Green"][B]:yes:[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE="6"][COLOR="Black"][B][CENTER]Moral · Always look for simple solutions. · Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems. · Always focus on solutions & not on problems. [/CENTER][/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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