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
( BMC
catches 30K latecomers with new system / 15 March ) ,
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
www.hemenparekh.in
/ blogs
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