Innovation is a Continous Process..!!!

As always, in our POM class we learn things differently, the last session was no mere different. Well i would say it was  much more interesting than earlier ones. We were asked to watch a video of 3 monks ...

                                       

 I suggest to watch the video as it a story of 3 monks which teaches a lesson about responsibility in a humorous ways. 3 monks allowed personal pride to interfere with the performance of the daily tasks, each believing that the other two should be the ones to go to downhill and fetch water. When a fire breaks out, however, they understands how silly they have been and worked together to save the temple. Also when they worked together they came up with good ideas so as the minimal efforts were required to fetch the water from the downhill. This shows how working in a group increases the overall potential ability of an individual or an organisation or groups to be more successful or productive as a result of a merger.

Analyzing the various working methods : 

Event	Output [no of buckets carried]	Input [Worker energy unit]	Productivity  = Output / Input
Single Monk carrying two buckets	2	2	1
Two Monk carrying one bucket	1	0.5	2

From the table we conclude that when work is share the productivity increases. This is how in corporate world the work is distributed in a such a way that each individual put lesser effort but the overall productivity is high. 

If we consider the 3rd scenario in the story we can find that the Third Method was even much better than the second one where they make use of pulley to fetch the water .This shows how the innovation evolves and its not a one time process. 

If i try to map this example to my own experience in corporate world i would say that its almost similar what we learn in our world environment.

for eg : In my project initially we were asked to divide the work among ourselves since the deadline was far away and quantity of work was not that big. Our seniors like TL and TA didn't take any kind of work but distribute everything to the juniors. As a result there was a dissatisfaction among the juniors .Since they lack experience  the work amount which was looking quite less initially  increased tremendously on the juniors. As a result overall productivity goes down. So after one week when the work done was analysed it was merely 10% where as PM was expecting to be around 40%. Looking at the worse performance , PM himself delegates the work to each member with a deadline to meet. since the responsibilities were clear and the deadline, the tasks was automatically happen to be simpler than the previous case. Here the management plays an important role as in stating the each process and methods clearly to each individual to carry on. 

QUOTE : It is through co-operation rather than conflicts that your greatest success would be derived.

Thanks For Reading...!!!