Faizan Usmani
Faizan Usmani is a cofounder and chief editor of Go4ideas.com. Writing as a freelance writer for numerous English publications, Faizan Usmani is a writer, creative thinker as well as a theorist. While most of his write-ups seem to be discussing economic issues, creativity and creative thinking are his favorite topics. Mainly related with writing and research pursuits throughout his life and having all capability to think within the box and out of the box, Faizan Usmani is a ‘man of ideas’. He is basically not a critical but a Creative Thinker and has conducted numerous workshops and delivered lectures on business creativity, design and innovations and creative thinking. Faizan Usmani can be contacted at faizanusmani@go4ideas.com
Homepage: http://www.faizanusmani.com
Posts by Faizan Usmani
‘Scratcher’: A New Invention for Companies that Offer Prepaid Services
December 8, 2011 - 12:01 am
Tags: new invention ideas, PINs, prepaid cards, prepaid services, scratch cards, telephone calling cards
Posted in Business Ideas, Mobile & Telecommunications, Products | No comments
The Idea: Scratch cards have become frequently-used items in our daily lives and many service providers, belonging to different trading sectors, offer payment options through scratchcards. For example, a majority of prepaid customers using telecommunication services are served through scratchcards of different denominations for mandatory balance upload. Usually, these scratchcards are manually scratched by using [...]
Turn ATM Machines into Automatic Money Changers: A Revolutionary Idea for the Banking Sector!
December 4, 2011 - 4:01 am
Tags: ATM card, ATM machine, ATMs, automated teller machines, banking institutions, banks, finance ministry, financial product, foreign currency exchange, Forex, international business standards, international currency, money changers, State Bank, State Bank of Pakistan
Posted in Banking and Finance, Business Ideas, Electronics & Electrical Appliances, Good Governance, Products, Science & Technology, World Economy | 1 comment
Here Faizan Usmani proposes smart and intelligent integration of foreign currency exchange with automated teller machines (ATMs). ATM machines are installed everywhere and visited by hundreds and thousands of customers each day for an immediate transaction of money but only in a single local currency. Now after integrating the very function of transacting international currencies through a single ATM, we will see a rather advanced version of ATM cum money-changing machine (MCM), offering money not only in local currency but in a number of international currencies as required.
Become a Tailor for Baby Diapers: A New Business Idea!
March 15, 2011 - 1:06 am
Tags: baby products ideas, design ideas, fashion ideas, tailoring ideas
Posted in Business Ideas, Fashion, Products, small business ideas | No comments
The Problem: Usually, baby diapers are available in all sizes as required as per their growing age. But despite availability of most popular diaper brands, none of them has yet offered 100% convenience to mothers because these diapers are not fully customized or tailor made. These branded baby diapers are made according to well-defined standard [...]
Meat Distribution Services: An Excellent Service Idea for Courier Companies
October 25, 2010 - 5:39 am
Tags: courier ideas, ideas for courier companies, parcel delivery ideas, parcel ideas, service ideas
Posted in Business Ideas, Islamic Products | No comments
The Problem: Muslims, all over the world, sacrifice animals on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha (Eid ul Azha), After sacrifice, they distribute the meat among the poor and needy. To celebrate this Holy occasion with a sense of brotherhood and belonging, Muslims also share sacrificial meat with their own relatives, neighbours, and friends etc. The distribution [...]
A Premium Idea for Companies/Manufacturers of Musical Instruments
October 18, 2010 - 12:59 am
Tags: companies of musical instruments, manufacturing idea, music instruments idea, musical device ideas, musical instruments ideas
Posted in Business Ideas, Ideas For Sale, Premium Ideas, Products | No comments
The Idea: This is an idea about making a musical instrument. This type of musical instrument has not been invented yet. The cost of making the proposed musical instrument will be bare minimum as compared to any type of musical instrument. This musical instrument is well-fitted with all forms of music and will be cordially [...]
Medicine in the Teabag: A Revolutionary Idea in the Pharmaceutical World!
October 6, 2010 - 8:14 am
Tags: drugs manufacturing ideas, health ideas, ideas for pharmaceuticals, medicine ideas, medicine manufacturing ideas, pharmaceutical ideas
Posted in Business Ideas, Health & Fitness, Products | No comments
The Idea: There are many medicines that are prescribed to be taken with hot water by physicians and doctors. These medicines mostly include Joshanda (herbal tea), syrups and some pills etc. Pharmaceutical companies can do wonder if they introduce these Medicines in a Teabag. “Medicine in the Teabags” could offer more health benefits as compared [...]
Be My Guest but Pay for the Rest: Home Restaurant (Part 2)
October 5, 2010 - 12:19 am
Tags: additional income ideas, additional money making ideas, entrepreneurship ideas, home restaurant ideas, hospitality business, hospitality ideas, hotel ideas, restaurant ideas, small business ideas, women entrepreneurs ideas
Posted in Business Ideas, Food World, home, Hotels & Restaurants | No comments
Note: This is second part of the idea presented under the heading “Turn Your Home into a Part-time Home Restaurant: An Excellent Business Idea to Generate Additional Income” on the following link: http://www.go4ideas.com/2010/10/01/turn-your-home-into-a-part-time-home-restaurant-an-excellent-business-idea-to-generate-additional-income/ The Problem: In a modern period which is greatly hit by increasing ration of inflation, it’s not easy to entertain your guests. [...]
Turn Your Home into a Part-time Home Restaurant: An Excellent Business Idea to Generate Additional Income (Part 1)
October 1, 2010 - 3:55 am
Tags: additional income ideas, additional money making ideas, entrepreneurship ideas, home restaurant ideas, hospitality ideas, hotel ideas, restaurant ideas, small business ideas, women entrepreneurs ideas
Posted in Business Ideas, Food World, home, Hotels & Restaurants | No comments
The Idea: The idea is to utilize your home as means of generating additional income for yourself. Just turn your home into a Home Restaurant by designating all or some parts of your home for the incoming gusts who will now pay you the money for all the foods and services you provide during their [...]
Capital Change: The Two-in-One Formula for Rapid Growth and Development in Backward Areas of Developing and Underdeveloped Countries
September 13, 2010 - 4:47 am
Tags: developing countries, development ideas, ideas for development, political ideas, regional isolation
Posted in Good Governance, Human Development, International Politics, Law & Order, Welfare Ideas, World Economy | No comments
The idea: The idea is to periodically change the national and provincial capitals of the country. In other words, we must shift the designated capital cities (both national and provincial) of country recurrently to new locations. To summarize the proposed idea in a few words, I have named it as “The Idea of Capital Change”. [...]
Tube of Shaving Cream vs. Toothpaste Tube: Design that Differentiates the Products!
September 10, 2010 - 10:32 pm
Tags: design ideas, design making ideas, product ideas, product manufacturing ideas
Posted in Business Ideas, Food World, Products, Research | No comments
The Problem: What’s a difference between a shaving cream tube and a tube of toothpaste? Both are definitely dissimilar because of the thick liquefied material stored within these tubes but shape and structure of both tubes remains same all the time. Thus, it becomes so difficult to make a difference between a shaving cream tube [...]
Multi-Shaped & Newly-Designed Staples and Stapler Pins
August 27, 2010 - 11:12 pm
Tags: new product ideas, official products, small business ideas, small devices ideas, stapler ideas, Stationary ideas
Posted in Business Ideas, Products, Stationary | No comments
The Problem: Easily available in the markets, various sizes and designs of staple machines are there. Out of such a huge variety of staplers and staple machines, the shape of staples and staple pins always remains the same without any sort of modification or new design offered by their manufacturers yet. Staple pins are being [...]
Manual Water Drainage Pump: A New Product Idea
August 25, 2010 - 2:45 am
Tags: Drainage ideas, drainage machine ideas, product ideas, water drainage ideas
Posted in Bathroom Accessories, Business Ideas, Electronics & Electrical Appliances, Products, Science & Technology | No comments
The Problem: In many of the underdeveloped and developing countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, India etc., drainage system required to pump out the needless water is not that much efficient. That’s why, a huge amount of water, during rainy seasons, is gathered in the basement, courtyard and other areas of the home, which causes water to [...]
Powdered Biscuit as an Exclusive Product
August 18, 2010 - 4:26 am
Tags: baking ideas, new product ideas
Posted in Business Ideas, Food World, Hotels & Restaurants, Products | No comments
Titled as Powdered Biscuit, this new product may attract lots of potential buyers and customers. While proposed product seems to be exploited mostly by the B2B traders, Powdered Biscuit has got so much potential being a favorite food item for children particularly. Companies may introduce this totally new product in the consumer market, which will [...]
Residence of Retired Army Personnel amidst Public Housing
July 5, 2010 - 5:37 am
Tags: home ideas, living ideas, residence ideas, Welfare Ideas
Posted in Good Governance, Human Development, Welfare Ideas | No comments
The Idea Retired army personnel of any rank should always live within public housing projects instead of residing away from the general public in their housing projects managed by respective cantonment boards. To narrow down this idea, at least one army personnel of major or colonel rank should live in a population of 10 thousand [...]
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