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The Dongle

15 September, 2010 by James Lawther 1 Comment

I am working away for a couple of days.

It is easy to do now that the dongle has been invented, that marvellous piece of equipment that links me to the internet and the world.  I can communicate with anybody.

“Dongles” are so good I have four of them, one for my personal lap top, one for my work lap top, my mobile phone and my work blackberry.

Why do I have four?  Because of security concerns at work (sensitive customer data) and the fact that I can’t plug my phone directly into my PC and use that as a connection.

The up shot of this, is that I walk around with 4 aerials (all of which are probably frying my brain) and the worlds heaviest brief case.

Isn’t technology amazing?

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Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: complexity, information technology, service design, waste

About the Author

James Lawther
James Lawther

James Lawther is a middle-aged, middle manager.

To reach this highly elevated position he has worked in numerous industries, from supermarket retailing to tax collecting.  He has had several operational roles, including running the night shift in a frozen pea packing factory and carrying out operational research for a credit card company.

As you can see from his C.V. he has either a wealth of experience or is incapable of holding down a job.  If the latter is true this post isn’t worth a minute of your attention.

Unfortunately, the only way to find out is to read it and decide for yourself.

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Comments

  1. Brian says

    17 August, 2011 at 7:41 am

    We add far to much complexity to our operations and daily lives. Using complexity reduction strategies to reduce this can have massive impacts on operating costs. I think you demonstrate that point really well

    Every where you look things are far to complicated. All sophisticated organisations should apply a good rationalisation approach and “cut the tail”

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