Monday, May 13, 2013

Replacing crossings with bridges

We see many accidents taking place on road crossings. Roads are getting broader to facilitate growing traffic.. Therefore crossings do indeed get longer..risking people's lives..it's something always suggested gov't agents to replace road crossings with bridges. This will reduce the traffic congestions while reducing possibilities for accidents.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Life goes on...

We born...
We live...
And
We die..

What is this all about...

Thursday, December 8, 2011

10 Important Qualities/Practices for our lives from Japanese


At the event of the Massive earthquake on 11th March 2011 in Japan, if you observed them, they adhered set of Good Practices.. Following 10 are few of them, which we can adopt to make our lives better.

1. THE CALM

Not a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief. Sorrow itself has been elevated.

2. THE DIGNITY

Disciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough word or a crude gesture.

3. THE ABILITY

The incredible architects. For instance, buildings swayed but didn't fall.

4. THE GRACE

People bought only what they needed for the present, so everybody could get something.

5. THE ORDER

No looting in shops. No honking and no overtaking on the roads. Just understanding.

6. THE SACRIFICE

Fifty workers stayed back to pump sea water in the N-reactors. How will they ever be repaid?

7. THE TENDERNESS

Restaurants cut prices. An unguarded ATM is left alone. The strong cared for the weak.

8. THE TRAINING

The old and the children, everyone knew exactly what to do. And they did just that.

9. THE MEDIA

They showed magnificent restraint in the bulletins. No sensationalizing. Only calm reportage.

10. THE CONSCIENCE

When the power went off in a supermarket, people put things back on the shelves and left quietly.




Note: Above images are not mine and linked to their locations just to convey the message... :)

Monday, November 1, 2010

What is LEAN and how it can help an Organization to grow?

The main objective behind the LEAN is Maximizing Customer Value while Minimizing the Waste. In other words create more customer value with lesser resources.

A LEAN Organization understands customer value and mainly focus on increasing the value by changing the existing key processes, ideally by reducing the wastage to zero or near zero, and making the processes to their optimal stage continuously.

How does an Organization become LEAN?

Changes towards the key Processes: By changing the traditional ways of doing things, it can make a difference. For an example,

Considering the Motivation factor in an organization, it would be better to rather than giving annual bonuses, give bonuses based on performance of people, and urging them on achieving bonuses.

Count Every Single Improvement: Should not neglect even small saving, even saving 10 seconds could help a big difference. For a simple example just imagine the value of couple of milliseconds at the Olympic.

S/W Innovation: Go for free and open source software, which could enhance the organization processes. For typical examples I would say Tweeter, Dropbox, Skype, Skydrive, Gmail, RSS feeds, etc.

Improving Job Satisfaction: Is a Key for a perfect business helping people to help the organization. The contract of employee and the employer is the trust which is strengthen by favor of them, Organization should help and emphasize it comparative to others in the competition, so their mindsets will be ready and bound to the company as a lifetime partner than just a company.

Simple Solutions: Should kill the Complexity, go for simplicity. For example we don’t need huge ERPs if we can manage something with EXCEL in a small company.

Improving the Communication: It’s always the matter that affects the growth, lack of communication leads to many failures, thus it’s better to initiate best mediums of communication by,

1. Automating messaging with freely available tools

2. Color codes

3. Audible signals with less cost, etc.

Reusable Resources: Always attempt to make things reusable, from the concept itself, everything an organization is better to calculate the return of investment for reusable resources comparing to what it owns currently and decide on change.

Process Orientation: Make everything process oriented than people oriented, so the quality of the delivery will stay at its top.

Make use of Natural Resources to Max: While using solar power, wind power as power sources up to certain extent Collected rain water can do cleaning like jobs saving paid purified water supplies for only human use.

LEAN is not a program or short term cost reduction program, but the way the company operates. The word transformation or lean transformation is often used to characterize a company moving from an old way of thinking to lean thinking. It requires a complete transformation on how a company conducts the business. It takes a long-term perspective.

LEAN is all about improving…and NOT cutting the Employee benefits…