Do not complicate matters. Simplicity is beautiful as enumerated from the two incidents below….
When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens would not work at zero gravity given the fact that ink does not flow down to the writing surface.
To solve this 'difficult' problem, it took them a decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in virtually any surface (including crystal) and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.
The Russians came up with a simple solution.
They used a Pencil!!!
One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was an empty soap box case, which happened in one of Japan’s biggest cosmetics companies. One day a consumer complained of a purchase of an empty soap box.
The Authorities decided to take the matter seriously and isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For an unknown reason, a soap box went through the assembly line emptied.
The engineers were designated to look into the 'serious' problem immediately. They worked tirelessly 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 no empty boxes. The solution seemed good but huge amount was expended.
In another smallish company, when a rank-and-file employee was posed with the same problem, he did not use sophisticated method but came out with a simple solution instead.
When a strong industrial electric fan pointing at the assembly line was installed, all the soap boxes have to passed through it and any empty one would be blown 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.
“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”
KEEP LIFE SIMPLE AND YOU CAN BE THE HAPPIEST PERSON AROUND!
The Russians came up with a simple solution.
They used a Pencil!!!
One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was an empty soap box case, which happened in one of Japan’s biggest cosmetics companies. One day a consumer complained of a purchase of an empty soap box.
The Authorities decided to take the matter seriously and isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For an unknown reason, a soap box went through the assembly line emptied.
The engineers were designated to look into the 'serious' problem immediately. They worked tirelessly 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 no empty boxes. The solution seemed good but huge amount was expended.
When a strong industrial electric fan pointing at the assembly line was installed, all the soap boxes have to passed through it and any empty one would be blown 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.
“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”
KEEP LIFE SIMPLE AND YOU CAN BE THE HAPPIEST PERSON AROUND!
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