Big Idea #2
Business ideas are based on creating new ways of offering services to customers. These ideas offered have varied benefits to the customers. These ideas may be taken from one culture and applied in another. This paper will focus on ideas of reinvention and recycling of businesses. The business ideas offer new ways of enhancing, through this manner, the old services are reinvented and clients are maintained for lengthier times and high selling are accrued.
This lays more on innovation and invention which greatly changes the market and the anticipations by clients (Macbride, 2011). Through assessing familiar operations and products and elevating it, there is a probability of changing the model of the business while maintaining the main aspects of the initial appeal.
Reinventing
In the present service stations, idea of creating service stations that are friendly to the environment, sensual food and an appealing design (Macbride, 2011). This offers a shift from the initial road side service stations that polluted the environment, and offered greasy food, to a fresh look and focused on a bigger client base, it is maintaining the main aspects of business model: acquiring a road side location that offers refreshment and fuel.
Another project is the redesigning the toothbrush to Miswak. Miswak is a tooth cleaning twig by tradition used in the Middle East. While in use, the stick is bitten off to show the soft bristles. The twig comes from Salvadora persica tree. The twig is known to have beneficial effects and can be packaged for shipping in the contemporary market. The product has not been designed yet but has received good recommendation from the WHO.
Reinventing the print media with the help of digital methods can helped to create the print to be a flexible and interactive channel. This involves the use of new apps that can offer a more immersive virtual aspect that is different from the page like Twitter and Facebook (Macbride, 2011). Different from the paper print media, the web offers brands and publishers an ability to have a super-global and fragmented focus. Additionally, digital technology enables and creates cultures. It is basically in the region of sharing and offering valuable experiences.
The starting of the bagged ice brand involves the making and selling bagged ice. This process is great to the environment, clean and offers quality and clear ice. This will involve machines that make the ice at no human contact. The idea is beneficial to clients that need the ice in their homes.
With the technology advancement, newspapers are slowly dying out. Newspapers have a great chance to reinvent themselves. This entails getting back to what they did initially and create new forms of media that were not there initially. This will offer newspapers an ability to own their stories.
In relation to technology, retail stores can be reinvented to use touch screens and voice input technology to enables customers to choose what they need and know which stores offer them at the most affordable prices. This will make work easier and faster for them to transact business.
Recycling
Saudi Arabia is a country that has strict morals and is different from the United States in varied ways. The business of recycling corks from wine bottles could be of great help in the bathrooms. These corks can be used to make mats that will need about 175 corks. The mats are easy to make with the use of the knitting skills of the Saudi Arabian women. The method is cheap and easy to make.
The radiator vase is a beautiful vase and can be sold in stores. This is easy to make with the help of leftovers from home modelling. This can be made through use of perforated metal sheets from radiator cover and changed them to stylish pieces (Macbride, 2011). This is made more effective with the help of flat plier and nontoxic paint. From this, something that appears as trash could be made to be great dinner tables and other left overs to be used as outdoor lanterns for parties or celebrations considering the strict Saudi cultures.
The issue of recycling in Saudi Arabia has acquire a different opinion. Advertisement regarding recycling has been met by massive resistance and ridicule. It does not go down well with the locals. A common product that is used by everybody is water and after use it is regarded as waste and done away with. Water used in washing utensils, clothes and other cleaning can be used in the farms as irrigation. This helps in growing of plants. This can be done through letting the solid waste to settle and using the water for irrigation.
Reference
Macbride, S. (2011). Recycling Reconsidered: The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States. Massachusetts: MIT Press.
