BPOs and all....

A strange trend appears to have surfaced in our office after the holiday period where people went to see families and friends around the world.

Out of 12 people who went abroad either to see family or friends in their home country or otherwise on a holiday, 10 have gotten a haircut. So our otherwise shabby office is full of neat men and pretty women with their fancy and not quite so fancy haircuts.

On a business level, I see an opportunity here: 83% of people got a haircut when they went abroad. This is a Business Process (BP of the abbreviation in the title) which is already being Outsourced (and the 'O' above) without a direction from the corporates but from the individual. There's a real chance here, I tell thee.

And, belonging to a country where more than half of the rising middle class depends on the BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) for their livelihoods, I think I am better placed than your average joe to take this opportunity and turn into multimillion Rupess business success.

So, after much deliberation on how this idea could be materialized I have come to the conclusion that whilst sending your head to India for a haircut is the most efficient and cost effective way of driving this business but it probably is a leeetle impractical. And therefore, my idea is that it could be implemented by the creative kinds - the kind of people who draw pictures for Threadless!. I am sure there are many budding hair cut artists, several many who can't really make it to the Tony and Guy and the kinds.

We take these budding hair dressers, and give them your photo - possibly a 3D one so they can get the feel of your hair - may be even a strand of your hair could be asked from those who don't believe in Vodoo. A description of what you would like to be done to your hair, and then voila! they could give you step by step instructions on cutting your own hair!
Although I realise it might be slightly difficult to cut your own hair, may be you could get a friend to cut your hair? It could even become a facebook application where you could rate how each of your friends cut hair?

Ok, so may be for the first few times you friend might screw up and you might look stupid but hey it's hair and they are a renewable source of beauty!

Isn't this idea excellent? Given my laziness, I doubt that I'd actually follow this idea through but in a few years, when you read about a multimillion website called www.DIYhair.com then you'd know who to give credit to.