Chapter 132 The Essence of Business Saves Time
The next day, Yang Wendong arrived at the company early in the morning and found a pile of mops at the door.
“You bought so many?” Yang Wendong was a little surprised.
Wei Zetao, who had just seen his boss coming, rushed over and said, "Yang Sheng, these are all types of mops in the 8 nearby department stores. There are 52 types in total, and they are basically all different."
"Yeah" Yang Wendong nodded and said, "I may have underestimated the types of mops around and bought a little too much."
Wei Zetao smiled and said: "It's okay, our factory is not small, and mopping the floor consumes mops very quickly. If you replace them diligently, they will be used up in a few months."
< br>"Yeah." Yang Wendong didn't care and didn't have much money.
It would be even more uneconomical to ask him to go to a few grocery stores to check it out, because his time is more valuable.
Wei Zetao then asked: "What does Yang Sheng want these mops for?"
Yang Wendong said: "You ask Lao Hong to come over and let's take a look together. In addition, let someone put these mops Move the mop to the conference room, where we will discuss things.”
"Okay." Wei Zetao agreed immediately.
In fact, under normal circumstances, if the boss asks to buy something, it is usually delivered to the door of the boss's office or to the conference room; but this mop is a large item, and I don't know what it is used for. It was not good to go to the conference room, so I left it at the door.
Afterwards, Wei Zetao called two people over to move the mop, while he went to call someone nearby. In fact, the place was not far away, and everyone's office was at the entrance of the factory.
After a while, all the mops were moved to the conference room, and Hong Xuefei also came: "Yang Sheng, do you have anything to do with me?"
"Sit down first." Yang Wendong smiled. He smiled and did not answer directly, and then continued to touch the mop on the ground with his hand.
Seeing that the boss's behavior was a bit strange, Wei Zetao suddenly had a ridiculous idea in his heart and asked: "Yang Sheng, don't you want to make a mop?"
Yang Wendong smiled, shook his head and said : "Of course not. Yesterday when I was at my new home, I found that it was very difficult to squeeze the mop dry, so I was wondering if there is any way to quickly remove the water from the mop."
"Quickly remove the mop. "Water?" Hong Xuefei didn't understand, and asked, "Isn't it just a matter of squeezing and waiting?"
Yang Wendong shook his head and said. These methods are laborious or time-consuming. In modern society, especially in places with good economic conditions, these two things are very precious, and it is not cost-effective to do so.”
“Yang Sheng’s. "What do you mean?" Wei Zetao paused and asked, "We want to solve this problem?"
"I have this idea." Yang Wendong nodded and suddenly asked: "What do you think is the essence of the product?"
"Essence?" Wei Zetao and Hong Xuefei didn't quite understand what the boss meant.
Yang Wendong explained with a smile: “There are many essences of goods, but I think the most valuable essence is to save time.
For example, the essence of cars is to reduce people’s travel time. , The purpose of washing machines is to reduce the time people spend on housework, the purpose of dryers is to reduce the time it takes to dry clothes, and the purpose of elevators is to save people the time of climbing stairs, right?"
After listening, Wei Zetao nodded. The head said: "What Yang Sheng said makes sense. Our sticky notes actually indirectly increase the work efficiency of office staff, and can also be said to save the company's time."
"This angle is right." Yang Wendong also agreed: "In short, any product or service that can reduce some inconvenience in people's lives is definitely a good product.
This concept can also be used in the future. Become Deli’s R&D concept, Lao Hong. When you design new products in the future, you must consider this direction. What kind of things can save time for consumers will definitely succeed.”
Actually, Many Internet giants in later generations also relied on this logic to succeed.
For example, online shopping saves users time to go shopping; takeout saves people time to go out to eat;
Didi saves people time waiting for taxis; search engines reduce people’s time to go out to eat. The time it takes to look up information; social networks reduce the time it takes people to obtain information.
It can be said that the business essence of most of the Internet is to save time.
“A good idea, the purpose of the product is to reduce the user’s time.” Wei Zetao thought it made sense, and then asked: “What Yang Sheng means is that we want to make a product that can reduce the time of squeezing the mop. Something that can save time or effort?” "Basically, it's time." Yang Wendong said: "Household hygiene should still be dominated by women globally, and they basically don't use too much effort."
< br>"Yes." Wei Zetao nodded and said.
Hong Xuefei next to him asked: "Yang Sheng, what kind of thing can quickly squeeze out a mop?"
"We need to learn the principles of the washing machine." Yang Wendong added: "Can't the washing machine spin dry clothes? If you can spin the mop like this, the mop can be easily dried?"
"Electrical appliances?" Wei Zetao He looked a little hesitant and said, "Yang Sheng wants to make an electrical appliance?" '
"Of course not, how can we have this ability now." Yang Wendong took out a piece of paper with a sketch on it, and then said: "What I want to do is a structure, put the mop inside, and then By manually pressing down, the structure in contact with the mop head below will rotate. Can't this imitate a washing machine?
It's just that the washing machine relies on motors, while ours relies on human power, but it's more like a washing machine. The force of pressing down is very simple. A woman can easily press down dozens of kilograms of force. This is much more convenient than squeezing the mop head dry."
"If it can be realized, this is really a good method. ." After Wei Zetao understood what Yang Wendong meant, he almost fell silent.
If this thing comes true, it will probably become a hit product again.
Yang Wendong looked at Hong Xuefei and asked: "Can this thing be designed structurally?"
Hong Xuefei looked at the rough structure on the white paper and replied: "It should be possible. Yes, this is actually a structure that converts linear motion into rotational motion;
In many devices, such conversion is very common, but most of it is the other way around. What is common is that rotational motion is converted into linear motion. Because the input source of power is the motor, which rotates. "
"Okay." Yang Wendong nodded and said, "Then we will start trying to design this rotating mop. The company will start a project immediately and get all the information. , all need to be kept; in addition, some core information needs to be archived in the personnel administration.”
This is the advice given by lawyer Zhang Weida. When a company is preparing to develop a product, it needs to consider whether its idea will be known by rival companies as soon as it is proposed and speed up research and development to imitate it.
This kind of thing may not be common, but there are so many companies around the world. When there are more people, there are all kinds of birds, and the same is true for companies, so legal issues have to be considered in advance.
The best way is to keep all the information from the time of project establishment. If something goes wrong, this will be evidence later.
"Okay, I will prepare the relevant information right now." Hong Xuefei nodded and agreed.
Yang Wendong asked again: "Your R&D department shouldn't have anything important on hand recently, right?"
"We are also helping the laboratory to study the viscosity test of the glue behind the sticky hook." Hong Xuefei replied.
Yang Wendong said: "The glue test for sticky hooks is not complicated to do. It does not require so many people. Since your team is relatively empty now, let's study this."
Although in the future The production of sticky notes will make the company very busy for a period of time, but that is busy production and has nothing to do with the R&D department.
Except for the sticky hooks that are being tested, all the creative products I proposed before are now in production. The R&D department is in reverse order with production and is very idle.
After all, as a provider of ideas, I also deliberately come up with very simple products. This is just the right time for them to develop something new.
"Okay." Hong Xuefei said.
Yang Wendong added: 'This product is called a spin mop, and the name of the project is also the same. Give me the most basic project member group information today, and I will arrange financial funding for this R&D project later. . '
"No problem." Hong Xuefei said: "If there is nothing else, then I will go and implement this matter first."
"Okay, go ahead" Yang Wendong nodded.
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