Story- Common sense is uncommon…
A soap factory had a problem: Due to the way the production line
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⛓ was set up, sometimes empty boxes were shipped without the soap inside.
⚙⛓ was set up, sometimes empty boxes were shipped without the soap inside.Understanding how important that was, the CEO of the soap factory gathered the top people in the company together. Since their own engineering department was already stretched too thin, they decided to hire an external engineering company to solve their empty boxes problem.
The project followed the usual process: budget and project sponsor allocated, RFP (request for proposal), third-parties selected, and six months (and $8 million) later a fantastic solution was delivered on time, on a budget, high quality and everyone in the project had a great time. The problem was solved by using high-tech precision scales
⚖ that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a soapbox would weigh less than it should. The line would stop, and someone had to walk over and yank the defective box off the line, then press another button to re-start the line.
⚖ that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a soapbox would weigh less than it should. The line would stop, and someone had to walk over and yank the defective box off the line, then press another button to re-start the line.A short time later, the CEO decided to have a look at the ROI (return on investment) of the project: amazing results! No empty boxes ever shipped out of the factory after the scales were put in place. There were very few customer complaints and they were gaining market share. “That was some money well spent!” he said, before looking closely at the other statistics in the report.
The number of defects picked up by the scales was 0 after three weeks of production use. How could that be? It should have been picking up at least a dozen a day, so maybe there was something wrong with the report. He filed a bug against it, and after some investigation, the engineers indicated the statistics were indeed correct. The scales were NOT picking up any defects, because all boxes that got to that point in the conveyor belt were good.
Perplexed, the CEO travelled down to the factory and walked up to the part of the line where the precision scales were installed. A few feet before the scale, a $20 Table fan was blowing any empty boxes off the belt and into a bin. Puzzled, the CEO turned to one of the workers who stated, “Oh, that…One of the guys put it there ’cause he was tired of walking over every time the bell rang!”
$8 million vs $20 *What’s the worth of common sense.?
Learning from the story
1. Life is simple, we tend to complicate it.
2. Most of the times simple commonsensical solutions are available for problems; our job is to try and find simple solutions.
Questions to ask ourselves
What are the business challenges I am facing now?
How can find simple solutions to my challenge at hand?
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