I really appreciate the use of wit and humor to get your point across. This is especially true in academics. My professor was trying to teach us the other aspects of having a variety of assortments.Sensing that ours is a generation which wants variety in almost everything, this is what he said:
“…But then there are some associated troubles with variety. Sometimes there is just too many variety. Look at the toothpastes for instance. Gel, white, blue, red and there is a green one too! Its a whole fruit salad out there. I will use a personal example to illustrate the point.
There is an orange colored toothpaste (winces visibly) in my home and I am perpetually confused by it. I believe it has an identity crisis. It can’t decide whether to be a toothpaste or an orange candy. Whenever I brush with it I feel I just had an orange squash…which defeats the purpose of brushing, if you see my point.”
September 21, 2009
Too many variety
ECPH test
This week I leaned a very cool test to categorize various options or plans. It consists of the 4 tests
1. Easy,
2. Cost of implementation,
3. priority/criticality
4. Human resources requirements
Based on the 4 test the relevant section of square is given the green, yellow or the red color. So in a beautiful color coding we can summarize the salient points of the options and make the presentation/report beautiful brief and yet meaningful.
PS: I am not sure who invented this pictorial representation.
Ankur Aggarwal
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Sandip Chaudhuri
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shobhendrasrivastava
