Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

But its worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. Steve Jobs, 1955 2011

The emerging markets in Central Asia create opportunities in industrial design Accommodate developing manufacturing and professional environments resulting from continuing globalized economic interests Transition Asian Market demographic information into a defining Needs Statement and CONOPS for Product Development Chinese Urbanization Efforts Workforce Profiles

A major Chinese electronics manufacturing interest intends to focus on the urbanization of the in-land rural China provinces leveraging the human resource capital available to industry as a result of globalized economic influences To mitigate its current labor relation challenges in Wuhan and Shenzhen, the firm intends to strengthen initiatives to develop and maintain the wellbeing of the workforce to sustain productivity goals The firm will build a new worker friendly facility deep in the Hubei province The facility design will account for local cultural traditions and regional identity while promoting the urbanization of local industries to support provincial community role in an expanding globalized economy The firm intends on upholding new Chinese initiatives to contain potential migration to, and overpopulation of, existing mega urban centers through provincial urbanization support

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Worker profile for the scenario encompasses: High school educated line worker Workday typically lasts 12 to 16 Hours per day with cases up to 35 hours per day Subject to cramped dormitory living with up to 6 people sharing a dorm room White Collar Aspirations Rise to management through continued vocational training Joining the emerging ranks of the consumer driven middle class Shedding the inherent class attributes of rural hukou identification

Retention of Worker Cultural Identity: Maintains a sense of identity and communal pride with the rise of urban villages within the megacity infrastructure Ironically has no wish to return home Lack of opportunities at home Mystique of being identified as an urban citizen despite the social differences between the migrant working class and the white collar class Corporate culture Maintaining productivity Satisfying demand Mitigate conflict that will impede productivity and satisfaction of demand Government Concerns Overpopulation Competition for resources Mitigation of Dissent

Job satisfaction as a product for the worker: Livable wage Reasonable hours Work/Life Balance Corporate needs Output of product Revenue Government Concerns Increased investment Flow of revenue

The Need is outlined in items 2 through 5 of the established Scenario encompassing: A Capability Gap in the Worker Work/Life Balance need as identified Scenario Item 2 The Corporate Requirement is to maintain worker productivity and sustain output Government requirement to develop rural areas to mitigate megacity infrastructure issues 3-tiered Work Space Design Concept Production Process Paradigm shift Work Cell Design Leveraging the rural Host Environment for Facility Design

Assemble unique work team cultures along end customer identification lines: Apple, Dell, HP, Microsoft Teams as an example Promote competitive productivity targets mirroring end customer market strategic needs Requires an end customer account executive to set a team vision Flow down team targets and goals Institute Periodic rewards and incentives Leverage the raw low cost per unit of the end customer product, promote a give away contest for exceptional output as an indirect marketing opportunity Use a relay cross-trained team cell approach to production Rotate team members though each function within a cell Allows for team member growth Production Process increases the communal sense of purpose Permits rotation of personnel on a predetermined 8 hour shift schedule while maintaining production tempo

Isolated linear single task completion

Scalable Cross Functional Team Relay Work Cell End Product Completion
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Cross-Training & Communication

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Product Flow

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Isolated linear single task completion

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Traditional Workbench chair and table Configuration

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Cross-Training & Communication Product Flow

Source: http://modern-arki.blogspot.com/2009/02/very-chineseexperiment.html

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