Couple of days back, I thought of sending a mail to colleague about some task.
Since the team is virtually located across the globe, sometimes it matters to send a email
before the COB, so that I'll get the reply from the person across the globe (say in US) and
start my next day activity. But, Unfortunately I forgot to send that mail.
In the sleep, I got a dream that I typed the email with better facts.
As usual, When I woke up, I forgot what was the thought that i drafted in the email.
So...., I was thinking it would be very gratefull to have some kind of Email composer driven by brain thoughts.
On the otherhand, It may cause some disaster sometimes.
Say If I had a long arguement with my boss and was not satisfied with the boss decision and
it was some kind of fight, I may end up sending some email in my un-consious mind.
As we always workaround for the issues..., we can configure the so called "Brain-driven Email Editor" to save all the mails in the draft :)
So that we can capture the dream thoughts and we can review in the morning, scrap some mails, edit some mails, and send it...
What do you think...
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Who is the other person?
I read the book "The Google story" recently.
If you look at few companies who started with small footprint and
succeeded to become a billion revenue company, Each of those companies
was started by only 2 people.
So....., I am just waiting for the other person.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Appliacations for mostly populated/crowded countries
Normally I travel in train under un-reserved compartments. I usually go an hour early to the Railway station, buy a ticket, try to get the seat in the train, and travel. On that day, I reached the railway station little late. There was a huge queue to buy the ticket. Although there are almost 10 counters in Bangalore majestic station to issue the tickets, the counters are not enough for the crowd that travels. Usually it is normal in highly populated countries like India. This might be the same in counties such as China.
It is not possible to find a solution through operation research by optimizing the counters and the process considering the crowd. It cannot be solved just by increasing the counters.
Few people are trying to solve this problem, but in the wrong direction. I saw a ticket vending kiosk in the railway station, which accepts the credit card and issues tickets between important stations. Issues still persist with this solution:
1) It is similar to adding one more counter, which divides the crowd just by another provider.
2) This is not efficient as the person in the ticket counter, almost all first timers try twice or thrice to know the flow and get a ticket.
3) That Kiosk support only credit cards issued by restricted banks.
4) It is not so reliable, sometimes it does not work.
I was thinking while I was moving in the queue . I had enough time to think, it took 25 minutes to go near to the counter. Since everyone have the mobile phones nowadays and still the mobile phone density is increasing in India, why don't we develop applications in mobile platform and tie-up with Railways, etc. No one have to stand in queue :) . People can pay the money directly from their bank through the mobile phone and get the ticket in a minute instead of 25 minutes.
It is like providing a Kiosk to each one...
Similar solutions can be developed wherever their is a huge queue that cannot be handled just by increasing the providers/counters.
It is not possible to find a solution through operation research by optimizing the counters and the process considering the crowd. It cannot be solved just by increasing the counters.
Few people are trying to solve this problem, but in the wrong direction. I saw a ticket vending kiosk in the railway station, which accepts the credit card and issues tickets between important stations. Issues still persist with this solution:
1) It is similar to adding one more counter, which divides the crowd just by another provider.
2) This is not efficient as the person in the ticket counter, almost all first timers try twice or thrice to know the flow and get a ticket.
3) That Kiosk support only credit cards issued by restricted banks.
4) It is not so reliable, sometimes it does not work.
I was thinking while I was moving in the queue . I had enough time to think, it took 25 minutes to go near to the counter. Since everyone have the mobile phones nowadays and still the mobile phone density is increasing in India, why don't we develop applications in mobile platform and tie-up with Railways, etc. No one have to stand in queue :) . People can pay the money directly from their bank through the mobile phone and get the ticket in a minute instead of 25 minutes.
It is like providing a Kiosk to each one...
Similar solutions can be developed wherever their is a huge queue that cannot be handled just by increasing the providers/counters.
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