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Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Thursday 15 March 2018

One to One translation ?





As it happens quite often, when a Management decides to “ go digital / computerize “ existing manual systems , it ends up simply translating existing manual processes and convert these into ZEROes and ONEs  !



No one says :


We may not get another opportunity to simplify and increase the productivity of the process, for another 5 / 10 / 20 years


So why not “ re-think “ the very objective of the current manual process and “ re-design “ it in such a way that it serves many more purposes ?


Can we “ re-design “ it in a manner that it yields far greater “ insights “ into our operations ?





A recent example ( of such “ one-to-one “ thinking ) is the introduction of a biometric attendance system in BMC ( Bombay Municipal Corporation )


A Times of India report





reads :



The civic administration said resistance to the system was no excuse as they have only made the MANUAL muster ELECTRONIC


Following are other news reports on the same subject :


DNA ( 08 March )





DNA  (  22  Sept  2017 )

Thanks to biometric attendance, 1,200 civic staffers face pay cut






What can be a “ re-designed “ attendance system ?


In my blog ( From BAD toMAD / 01 June 2016 ) , I had proposed following :


https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/06/from-bad-to-mad.html

 

 

*  All smart phones to evolve as Bio-metric Attendance Devices , with built-in
    Bio-metric Recorders , GPS , a mobile attendance App ( called MAD ? )


*  App to have 2 buttons ( Green = IN  /  Red = OUT )


*  Employee to touch IN upon reaching his work-station and touch OUT ,
    while leaving work place , at the end of work-shift . That's all  !


*  Being GPS enabled , buttons will get activated ONLY when the employee
    has reached the work place ( not while he is on his way ! )

 



But imagine if the government could motivate / cajole / coerce, all the establishment in the country to implement  MAD ( Mobile Attendance Device  ) , over a period of next 5 years


If that happens, we would get following “ insights “ into our economy :





*   For employees , no need to file a separate annual Income Tax Return


*   Direct deposit of PF / TDS amounts into bank accounts of Govt Depts


*   Direct Benefit Transfer ( DBT ) to every Employer for Stipend Subsidy ,
     based on number of total trainees / apprentices employed


*   Total number of employees in India ( category / region / industry )


*   Employment Density ( Industry wise / Region wise / Skill wise etc )


*   Net Employment Growth Rate ( weekly - monthly / Industry-wise )


*   Co-relation with no of persons graduating at various levels


*   Data about those Unemployed ( " Graduating " less " Employed " )


*   Overtime Statistics ( Use / Abuse )


*   Work-hour Analysis ( Ave hours / week - month )


*   Wage / Salary Rates ( Rs per hour ) - Industry wise / Region wise


     ( of great interest to Foreign Investors looking to bring down
       manufacturing costs , by outsourcing to India / manufacturing in India )


*   Compliance with labour laws / tax laws / Apprentice Act etc


*   Job Market Forecasts through BIG DATA ANALYTIC ( region / industry )


*   Demographic  Profiles of employees  ( Rural to Urban migration )


*   Per Capita Income Growth for persons using MAD app  ( MOM / YOY )


*   Changing composition between Blue Collar and White Collar employees






Agree , BMC may not have got all of the above-listed “ insights “ , by introducing MAD , but it would have succeeded in convincing the government ( to begin with , Maharashtra Government ) , to extend MAD to other public establishments



It is still , not too late  !



For those with lingering doubts , please look up :



From BAD toMAD  [  01  June  2016  ]


https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/06/from-bad-to-mad.html

 





16  March  2018





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