Continual improvement - a most recurrent word in today's corporate world...
Every morning on my way to office, I see a banana vendor on street with his cart standing right at the point from where Industrial Belt starts. He comes much early might be around 7.30 am. Everyday somehow I see at his cart. Few days back I found a new person selling bananas on the cart. Workmen going to work either buy bananas and take with them to their work place and many stand there itself and eat bananas as their breakfast.
This new boy realized that people throw banana skins on road next to his cart. So he placed a small polythene bag besides his cart so that people eating bananas at cart can throw skins in the plastic bag. But I am sure that wouldn't have worked well as people have a tendency to hurriedly throw away once eating is done.
Next day I found him keeping a plastic sheet spread on road next to his cart. But surely that would have looked shabby and will attract lot of flies. Then I was on leave for a week's period.
And today morning the banana vendor surprised me when I saw that he had kept a used laundry basket which he must have bought from scrap...
Nothing to a small plastic bag to a plastic sheet and then to a scrapped laudry basket!!
Isn't it a wonderful experience of continual process improvement.
Every morning on my way to office, I see a banana vendor on street with his cart standing right at the point from where Industrial Belt starts. He comes much early might be around 7.30 am. Everyday somehow I see at his cart. Few days back I found a new person selling bananas on the cart. Workmen going to work either buy bananas and take with them to their work place and many stand there itself and eat bananas as their breakfast.
This new boy realized that people throw banana skins on road next to his cart. So he placed a small polythene bag besides his cart so that people eating bananas at cart can throw skins in the plastic bag. But I am sure that wouldn't have worked well as people have a tendency to hurriedly throw away once eating is done.
Next day I found him keeping a plastic sheet spread on road next to his cart. But surely that would have looked shabby and will attract lot of flies. Then I was on leave for a week's period.
And today morning the banana vendor surprised me when I saw that he had kept a used laundry basket which he must have bought from scrap...
Nothing to a small plastic bag to a plastic sheet and then to a scrapped laudry basket!!
Isn't it a wonderful experience of continual process improvement.
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