9 Websites That Will Make You Smarter

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An excellent resource for learning new things—whether you set aside 15 minutes during lunch or an hour before work.

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Check out these nine websites that will make you Smarter :

1. Clipped  
With the flood of information coming at every businessperson daily, this website can really help you save time. It extracts the most important information from articles and documents into a series of bullet points for quick and easy reading.

2. Coursera
Many entrepreneurs can’t afford to spend their resources on paid education. This site partners with top universities and other well-known organizations around the world to offer online classes for free. They help the user master the material through lectures, interactive exercises and tests. Topics range from humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences, mathematics, business and technology. Khan Academy is another outstanding alternative resource in this area.

3. TED 

For many years, it was too expensive for many small-business owners to attend this groundbreaking conference. Now, a catalog of thousands of Ted talks can be seen free on the Web. Most of them are less than 20 minutes in length and can be watched at lunch time. (Check out this favorite: Dan Pink’s Puzzle of Motivation.)

4. Lifehacker
This offbeat site has answers to all your daily dilemmas, and gives you the answers you need. 

5.  Good Is
Many small-business owners learn better through visual graphics. This is a site that answers many business questions through a popular tool known as infographics.

6. MemriseIn social media, memes are all the rage. Now, this site allows anyone to learn a new language using these types of images so the brain can remember the word more easily. Users can also compete with their friends by earning points for learning. Alternately for more advanced learners, Lang-8 can have blog posts written in other languages critiqued by native speakers. 

7. CodeAcademy
Entrepreneurs always need to learn a bit more Web coding than they would like. This site makes it easier for anyone based on a very interactive formula. It becomes very helpful in email and Web marketing.

8. Quora 
Get your questions answered by experts in the field. It’s an incredible Q&A site curated by well known users. 

9. Mental Floss
While this site may not make you smarter, it will make you better at all those trivia games. For example, what does a porcupine sound like?

DABBAWALAS' UNIQUE SUPPLY CHAIN MODEL

Guys this is a very interesting article by Veda Kisara and Kopal Garg from NMIMS

Unique Supply Chain which does not uses any software for operating

Millions in Mumbai commute everyday to earn a living. Banks, colleges, hospitals, government offices, private offices, factories and ports are all spread across different parts of the city. In a country where hot and freshly cooked home food is the most preferred for consumption, carrying of lunch boxes is a big burden for the working populace. However, this problem is unheard of in this metro city thanks to the presence of the 100 year old organization of “Dabbawalas”.

The Dabbawala community has about 5000 people working with them. These Dabbawalas deliver lunch boxes for about 2 lakh people at their work places on time. The work doesn’t end here. They also carry the empty lunch boxes back to the homes of the customers. The unbelievable part is they make only one mistake in sixteen million transactions and have been consistently good at it for all the time of their operations. This credibility earned them a six sigma designation by the Forbes magazine and ISO 9001 accreditation.  The three main reasons for their success are as follows.

1. Supply Chain Management

Surprisingly there is no use of Information systems or technology for their Supply chain side. A rigorous level of practice over the years has led to the unwritten steps to follow for accurate supply chain management and time precision. There are about 40000 transactions (delivery and return) of lunch boxes taking place daily.

The figure below shows their Supply chain model.

* Dabbawalas use cycles or go by foot to every household. The waiting time to collect a lunch box is maximum 2 minutes.
* Every Dabbawala has to assemble at his/her reported collection point at sharp 9. 30 am.
* From these collection points they assemble at the nearest railway station which is the Aggregation point.
* The next mode of transport is the trains where the carriers containing lunch boxes are transported to the destination railway stations.
* From every Destination station the dabbas are carried over carts, cycles and carriers to the destination zones which are given a specific number.
* From these zones, the lunch boxes are carried to the offices or workplaces which reach by lunchtime
* From here the reverse process of delivering the empty lunch boxes back to homes starts
* All through the above process, there is no slack at any point of time
* Traffic Jams, pedestrians, delays in train and signals do not stop the functioning. The trademark white cap wore by these Dabbawalas are known to everyone including the police who don’t interfere in their process

2. Coding System

Coding System is meticulously followed in order to avoid any mistakes involving interchange of lunch boxes, that is, wrong Tiffin box reaching the customer.

As given in the above Diagram, the Coding system can be explained as follows:

* BVI: Borivali, a suburb in Mumbai. This denotes the residential station

* 9 RC 14: Code for Dabbawalas at destination. This user code is different for each customer

* RC: Raheja Chambers, name of a building or office

* 14: Floor Number

* E: Code for Dabbawala at Destination station. For example, E is a code for Nariman Point, Churchgate

* Jain: Name/Surname of the customer

3. Employees

All the employees or Dabbawalas are the stakeholders in this organization. This is the source of their motivation. Most of the employees are illiterate and rest is school dropouts. However they are literate enough to understand the codes and comprehend which lunch box belongs where. They are given basic idea about writing the alphabets and numbers on the boxes on joining the organization. Every Dabbawala takes about 3 hours for completing his assignment and has to cover 60-70 km on foot, carts, cycles and carriers combined. Alcohol consumption is strictly avoided during work hours. The employees’ monthly salary is about Rs.6000 per month.

Key Features of the Dabbawalas organization: 

* Organization Turnover is about Thirty Six Crores annually

* Uninterrupted and on time service delivered even in occasions of bad weather and transportation/traffic problems

* Dabbawalas are well used to the local areas where they are functioning and make use of short cuts to save time

* No error inspite of lunch boxes changing hands six times

* During the working hours, they do not take a break or rest and thus no slack is present in the system

* They do not use vehicles which require fuel which makes them 0% Fuel reliant

* They do not use any modern technology for carrying out the logistics

* There are no disputes between the employees and no presence of any union

* Unique organization with Six Sigma designation and 99.99% rate of performance

* Cost of Service per lunch box = Rs. 450 per month and is standard price for all

* Customer Satisfaction accounts 100% with utmost trust

This article has been authored by Veda Kisara and Kopal Garg from NMIMS

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