Opportunity 1: Provide Incentives to save
The gentleman in this article is hoping that electric companies will provide the resources and incentives that people want to hopefully reduce the effects of global warming. This gentleman does not believe that an electric company should be run like a business of selling more electricity to keep shareholders happy. He also thinks that electric companies should provide services to make a profit, not electricity.
The problem in this story is that no electric company is truly providing incentives for customers that save energy. Also, not many electric companies provide services. I think is an opportunity for someone to start a business that tends to these needs.
The customers for the electric company are the people who are having this problem. When they are trying to conserve energy, they are not getting any incentives. This is a big problem for a lot of people.
Opportunity 2: New apartments key to push for housing
Tampa has a lack of affordable housing. Many people are homeless and living out of motels or vehicles. The big reason why they don’t have much affordable housing is because of land and construction costs. There are residents in neighborhoods that don’t want any new development. The city is trying to entice developers with tax incentives. There is also an issue that if many of these affordable housing units are built in one place, it essentially becomes segregation.
The problem in the story is that there isn’t enough affordable housing in the Tampa area. This presents a big opportunity for developers since the city may be offering tax incentives to the developers.
The people who are having the problem in this story is the people in the lower class who can’t afford housing.
Opportunity 3: Nurse sues over hospital staffing
A former nurse for St. Joseph’s Hospital is suing her former employer for dangerous working conditions. She includes dangerously low staffing as one of her main reasons. She feels that the nurses were over scheduled which lead to exhaustion. She raised her concerns while she was working there but nothing was done about it, so she quit.
The problem presented in this story is that this one hospital did not have enough staff. This presents an opportunity for a need for more nurses.
The people who have the problem are the nurses. They are over worked and understaffed. The hospital also has a problem because they can’t hire enough nurses to fill the shortage. The people in the hospital are also impacted because if the nurses are tired, they might not make correct judgement calls.
Opportunity 4: Gun Stolen from Rural King in Ocala recovered by police in Muncie, Indiana
A gun that was stolen from Rural King in Ocala was found in Indiana. 3 people were charged in connection with the robbery at Rural King. 12 guns were stolen from that Rural King and only 2 have been found.
The problem is that only 2 of the 12 guns stolen have been found. This presents the opportunity for some tracking device that can’t be removed unless you have a specific key for it. Kind of like the electronic tags that are on expensive clothes.
Rural King is the organization having the problem. When items are stolen from their store, that means lost revenue.
Opportunity 5: What is ‘flesh-eating’ bacteria and how to avoid it
There is this bacteria going around that can cause a breakdown of tissue. People can get it if they have an open wound and go into water with the bacteria. All it takes is one little cut and the bacteria can get in there. The article suggests using a waterproof band aid over any cuts that you may have if you are planning on going swimming.
The problem in this article is that people aren’t taking proper precautions to prevent this infection from happening. People may also not remember to bring waterproof band aids. If they are already out on the beach, they probably won’t leave the beach to go get a band aid. This presents the opportunity for some type of vending machine for waterproof band aids near the beach.
The people who have this problem is anyone who goes to the beach and has any sort of open wound.
Hello Riley,
ReplyDeleteGreat post! I found the opportunity regarding tracking devices for guns to be interesting. That would be a great opportunity especially since guns are stolen daily. This could also be an opportunity for Rural King to find better means of security and share that among other businesses since every store deals with stolen items one way or another. The one critique I would give you is to make your post a little more organized just with headings to better separate each point.
There are a lot going on in the five articles, but what I could say is the most interesting is the flesh-eating. Though gun-case did ended arrests, it didn't had had more of an interesting affect for all my attention. Which brings me up to the fact of what causes our attention in the news or newsworthy. Is it something that's has more consequences or involves more of us. Like there could be a bombing in Santa Fe college, but a cop shot a kid on campus.
ReplyDeleteI found the article you included about the stolen guns really interesting. With all the talk of regulation and bans, I think that being able to track and monitor where guns are would be a good start. I think the idea you posed about tracking devices is definitely something that could provide a solution to that problem or even create a market of devices that lead to more responsible gun ownership.
ReplyDeleteI have heard about this flesh-eating bacteria story before. It is really frightening to think that we can be severely injured or even killed by something we can’t even see coming. There have been several accounts in South Florida where individuals have gone swimming in lakes and are laying in a hospital a week later because of a bacteria they caught. I don’t know what could be a valid solution to this problem because there will always be things in nature which can harm us.
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