NU 12 #3 by JC - optimum elevator service in condos

Entrepreneurship
MBAH H04
NU 12 #3: What pisses you off at the neighborhood? What do you suggest?
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Living in a condominium seems to be appealing to those who are after convenience and security reasons. For the single ones or for those with small family size, a one-bedroom unit is just enough space to make oneself comfortable. However, there are some drawbacks to this type of lifestyle. The most unpleasant part of it is the elevator services which I believe is the most crucial service a condominium developer needs to address and prioritize since this is the main access to the different parts of the condominium. In the usual 30 level-condominium, with an average of 20 units per level and 3 tenants per unit, an estimated 1,800 tenants need the elevator daily excluding guests, personnel and security people. The usual number of elevator is only 4 so that each one services about 400-500 people a day. Hence, a broken elevator will just piss you off with the long waiting line and eventually a crowded space inside the elevator.

The most probable solution to this problem is good maintenance of the units which starts with getting the right company to service your building. Some condominium developers provide more number of elevators and others allocate their elevators to specific floors only. The efficiency of the service provider is critical to the quality of service provided by condominium developers. Thus, keeping the elevators in good condition equals satisfaction to owners, tenants, guests and everyone using them. 3

Nu6 by JC - Solution to Double Parking

"Innovate or DIE" "New ideas create more and better new products and services; create more wealth."

Double Parking

By: JC

I live in a baranggay very near to Makati Central Business District.  The upside is that we are near the fire stations, police stations and hospitals.  However our location is also strategic such that the storage houses of restaurants are also conveniently located here.  Right beside where I live is the warehouse of one popular restaurant in Metro Manila.  Aside from their fine dining restaurants located in the malls, this food business also caters during weddings and birthdays.  Our resto neighbor has 3 big trucks which transports tents, tables and chairs for large catering contracts, they have 3 smaller trucks for food delivery to their restaurants and 5 motorcycles which I assume serves as runners for urgent restaurant needs.  All these trucks and motorcycles then park in our street because thir warehouse parking space is only enough for one truck. 

These parked trucks and motorcycles obviously create severe street congestion inside our baranggay.  The traffic annoys the car drivers passing our street, and this often makes them honk their horns mercilessly keeping me awake all night.  In order to solve this recurring noise barrage in our street at night, I suggest that the restaurant stops parking their trucks on both side of our street.  Every time I hear the horns of the car outside, I force my self to think of the solution that I can present to our neighbor-owner.  My goal is to create a solution that will minimize his investment and is very simple to implement.  I have came up with solutions such as parking on the street near the church in our baranggay.  But I know he wont allow it since it would be too far and his security guard can no longer watch over his trucks.

Here is the best solution I have thought of.  We are given 3 big trucks, 3 small trucks, 5 motorcycles, one parking for big truck and a two-lane street.  I will now assume that the owner of the restaurant does not want to lease an extra parking space.  So, my suggestion is to utilize his own trucks as his parking space.

           

Since we are only left with 3 big trucks to think about, 1 truck will go to the garage and only the remaining 2 will be parked on our streets.  I know that it is illegal to park in the streets in the first place.  But since it appears that the restaurant has the backing of the baranggay and nobody bothered them for 10 years,  minimizing the nuisance these trucks are making in our Baranggay will be more than welcome.  I have made some visual estimate of the car sizes and I know my solution will work.  This proposal is very simple, workable and will employ very minimal investment from the restaurant owner.  I am planning to talk to the owner about this in a very casual way.  I hope I'll see him soon. 4

NU6 by JC What Pisses you off at the Mall

I don't know what's going on in the mind of these perfume sellers at the malls, but they have a really unrespectful and annoying habit of spraying the perfume they are selling on you without your permission.  For some customers, it can be a simple mall nuisance that they usually shrug off.  But for me, its a health issue.  Whenever these marketers/sellers in Rustans or Watsons decide to spray perfume on me (regardless of distance and fragrance type) my allergic rhinitis is triggered.  So it goes without saying that I usually spend the rest of my shopping day sneezing or drowzy (if i decide to take my anti-allergy medicine).

How can I prevent them from doing that?  I came up an idea of making "statements shirts" specifically designed for these annoying marketing people at the malls.

Right now, we have statement shirts in the market that shows off nationalism,  latest internet fads, sarcasmic or witty statements and school affiliations:

     




The idea is to create a shirt that will make you off limits to some annoying marketers at the malls or in the streets.

Example of my proposed statement shirts.


   


This shirts are fun to wear and will save you the time and effort shooing the persistent marketers or sales people away. ( Another spoof?) 4

JC 1st NU6 paper Leon's Mangoes-

New product improvement (process improvement)

Leon Mangoes

I came from a town in Iloilo called Leon.  We are 28 kilometers from the City.  Our area is mostly mountainous or hilly.  Our town grows a variety of agricultural crops and we are popular in Iloilo as the town the produces the best and sweetest mango.

Department of Agriculture and the Western Visayas Integrated Agricultural Research Center (DA-WESVIARC) research show that our mango has a higher sucrose content than that of Guimaras, meaning- sweeter.  The quality of our mangoes is superior and are proven to be very marketable abroad.  Despite the known quality, our mango farmers subsist on minimal margin on their produce compared to to the mangoes farmers of Guimaras.  Why are Guimaras mangoes more popular?  Magnolia even launched a new limited edition "Guimaras Mango" flavored ice cream recently.  That opportunity should have been ours. My aim in this NU6 is to present a new idea on how we can generate more income from the quality mangoes that we have in our town. 

My idea is to form a cartel of Leon Mango growers.  I used the word "Cartel" because the rules within the organization I'm visualizing will be stricter that the ordinary farming cooperative.  To illustrate my idea, here are the basic steps i'm thinking:

1)  Get hold of a government or private grant that will support the research and development of creating the best quality mango possible.

2) Form a cartel / cooperative.  Recruit Mango farmers in the town. Highlight the yield they will get using your new mango growing technique and the price protection the cartel will offer.

3) Apply for a loan in Landbank,  Use the money to finance the first roll-out of the new technique

4)  Share the new technique to the cartel members and ensure that they follow the procedures.

5)  When harvest time comes,  the farmers will sell their produce to the cartel at a predetermined price.  This is where the price protection comes in.

6)  Cartel will obtain contracts from big companies (Nestle, Robinsons Supermarket, SM Supermarket, San Miguel Corporation etc.) by capitalizing on their ability to deliver the agreed quantity and the quality of the mangoes.

6)  Once they receive payments from these clients, they will use the revenues to pay up the loan in step 3,  pay the succeeding cost of produce of farmers in step 5, and pay for further research and development in step 1.  The remainder (net income) of the cartel will be distributed among the cartel members as dividends.

Graphical representation of these steps are shown in the attached file.

The general idea of this NU6 paper is to find a way of creating synergy among the mango farmers to allow them to get higher returns for their produce.  By creating a cartel, I am trying to create a structure that will market the product, acquire the needed knowledge and support from both private and public sectors, protect that knowledge, maintain quality of the produce and at the same time create unity and cooperation among the farmers.

To protect the cartel, if a farmer decides to sell his produce outside the cartel, he will automatically be kicked out of the organization thus denying him of the dividends, price protection and the further knowledge and developments on mango farming.