Idea Center: Surviving the Economic Crisis for the Small Business

Almost every company or organization in this time of the year has started cost cutting measures.

This means

Saving Electric Power

By Powering down Air conditioners
Switching off Lights in unused areas
Not using Projectors but Televisions in Meeting Rooms

Reducing Utility Cost

By Reducing Paper Usage for Documentation
Limiting Coffee Cups and Plates at the Cafeteria
Ensuring strict 9 hour operating times and closing utilities thereafter
Limiting bandwidth usage to avoid ISP overbilling

However, the sad part is that most of these IT, SaaS, IT-ES, Hi-Tech companies just don't use technology to do this job.

The problem with this "sudden" approach is simple.

They forgot to

Build or Lease a Building that let in enough sunlight but didn't "heat" up the office.
Have an alternate ventilation system other than a single air conditioning system.
Have a system to measure actual costs of Paper used for printing.
Install measures to calculate actual bandwidth utilization
Optimize fuel costs by finding the most optimum routes for employee pick-up
Empower people to work from home whenever they could to save heavily on utilities.

So, here's a new business model for building an online web 2.0 tool that can

Study the burn rate of an office or organisation or company vis a vis their area of operation.
Provide them with a realtime analysis that can show them areas which can be worked on for cost reduction.
Use a 3D Model of the company and geographical co-ordinates to advise them on best spending for buying window blinds, optimal Air Conditioning usage and revising seating arrangement to reduce Climate control costs.
Calculate travel routes and work out travel plans online.
Provide pass-through proxy configuration utilities that calculate bandwidth usage and throttle to use ISP services better.
Require people to buy credits for printing on paper, losing credits each time they use a specific quantum of paper. CUPS already comes with an online tool.
Use time spent by employees at office to offer them incentives to work from home. An employee clocking 36 hours a week, gets two work-from-home days (or any policy acceptable by the company.)

The big challenge would be to put the above and possibly related ideas into one solution and helping companies to get their costs reduced.

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