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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Innovation at Omron

Every generation needs a revolution - an entrepreneurial revolution

Rizal Philippines
January 29, 2017

The Future of People and Machines
 - Yoshihito Yamada


The President of Omron Yoshihito Yamada spoke at NHK on the two things that propelled Omron, the maker of sensors and other innovative devices that changed the world we live in like cash counters, cash dispensers, ATM machine, portable BP devices automated ticket machine and many many more.

Yoshihito Yamada CEO of Omron at NHK at Direct Talk

They are innovation, and commercialization of those innovation

What do you think of this game changing ideas in a business?

The President used to be in sales and his project was the BP measurement devices.  They made a campaign to get people to use the device:  people should measure their BP to avoid heart attacks and strokes.   And their sales of portable aneroid sphygmo shot up.  Innovation is risky, and they had many failures too

Monday, January 23, 2017

China's strategy to jump start economy

Every generation needs a revolution - an entrepreneurial revolution

Rizal Philippines
January 23, 2017

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From Bloomberg - rebalancing Chinas economy

NHK recently featured China's strategy to jump start economy.  It is moving development to 3rd tier cities relocating many migrant farmers from 2nd tier cities.  It is called hukou.  I t will help soak the excess housing in the 3rd and fourth tier cities, and create more consumer driven economy
How we wish we could do that as we legislate in creating cities, we should invite give incentives  to industries and developers to move to this cities.  Thus decongesting MM and evenly spreading  progress at the country side.  Some cities like Sto Tomas, Tanauan  Bacoor fall into this mold;  but others do not. (natural ;progression because of MM spill over?)

China has finally encouraged labor mobility following years of restrictions

But the documentary says that such move, sound as they may from macro economic point of view has dire consequences in the lives of the farmers.   Many simply can not adopt to the changes. The farmers former businesses are demolished and they are forcibly forced to move out.   There is lack of consultation with the those affected parties and lack of safety net to those affected. It would have been perfect.

We lack the thoroughness in the country to plan this way, and to give the same support to spread development and entrepreneurship across the nation

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Building and sustaining learning organization

Every generation needs a revolution - an entrepreneurial revolution

Rizal Philippines
January 22, 2017

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This post, entrepreneur, business executive has long implemented learning as one of its values (beliefs) in the organization that he has founded for more than 30 years.  He has believed that its all about getting better.

Thus he was not surprised when Peter Senge came out with the book From Slideshare - Fifth Discipline PPt  What is the fifth discipline?  Shared learning.   It is a process by which an organization encourages its members to learn, so that the organization continuously transforms itself.   Learning is defined as the steps by which an organization acquires new skills and knowledge to innovate and compete and catch with the times. Stability and administration of a on going business is yielding to change and innovation.  What is new gets old,  the present becomes the past

The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge

What have done so far to encourage our people in the organization:

1.  Performance evaluation to require staff to :   submit 1 book report a month, 3 blog comments a month on its community blog (so that the staff know what is going on);  to require everyone to have a have a learning log (and to have at least 60 entries a quarter)

2.  To require all staff to undergo orientation and pass the exams .  No additional allowance shall be given unless this is fulfilled.

3.  To promote staff via merit for following:  with following steps

     1.  40 book reports   1 step

     2.  MBA  2 steps

    3. PRC license     1 step

   4.  Creating a manual, a software program  - 1 step

We can learn a lot.  WE cant be crazy. by learning    Right now we are using only 7%  of our brain power.  When we were growing up that was at 30%.  We can memorize the Bible or encyclopedia if we dedicate our passion and efforts to do so.  Our brain has 1 trillion neurons that can store bits of information and that can be interconnected in an infinite number of ways  more than quadrillion possibilities.  That is why humans have invented so many things to improve upgrade our standard of living.

Somebody said can we learn while working.  Kaya nga sinabi, the secret of success is hard work.  We cant improve in our work we cant improve ourselves if we do not additional inputs from the world:   internet, books seminars.

There was story about two brothers who were being chased by a flash flood.  One said run, the other said run.  The elder said:   Ok let us pray while we run.  We can learn while we work.

Those who lead read

This brings us back to the story about an exec, a senior exec at a major drug company who asked his subordinates as to what is the primary responsibility of a subordinate?  Some say it is meeting the required targets and outputs;  some say its about following the rules and regulations of the company; some say its about being loyal to the boss.

To which he said they are all ok but not quite.

THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY OF AN EMPLOYEE IS TO IMPROVE HIMSELF.  How can he do that?  By learning new skills and knowledge to develop himself and his skills in his job so that he will grow.

We can only improve our production and output if we improve ourselves and learn new things.   If we keep on doing old things expecting different results, it is INSANITY  (Albert Einstein)