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How to Deal with Customer Complaints

10 August, 2011 by James Lawther 2 Comments

The Highways Agency (the people responsible for the state of the UK’s roads) have announced a plan to save money. You can read about it here. Currently if a member of the public complains about a pot hole on a major road the Highways Agency are duty bound to repair it (throw on a couple […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: best practice, customer complaints, customer focus, government, mitigating demand, poor service

Measure Anything the Sesame Street Way

6 August, 2011 by James Lawther 2 Comments

There are a lot of intangible things in life, things that affect the service that you are delivering and the business that you are running.   Things that you would love to know, but are frankly just impossible to find out.  How about these for a couple of examples: How effective are your managers? How […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: assumptions, decisions, key performance indicators, measurement, video

Clever Capital Investment or Shiny New Toy?

2 August, 2011 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Capital Investment Decision

If you have ever called a call centre, no doubt you have used an IVR (interactive voice response, press 1 to change your address…press 2 to…  you get the idea). The public is generally a little damming about them, to quote Wikipedia: “IVR is sometimes criticised as being unhelpful and difficult to use due to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: capability, capital investment, customer focus, information technology, interactive voice response

Clean Cold Running Water

30 July, 2011 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Employee needs and running water

Depending on who you listen to we want a number of things.  Maslow will tell you they can be categorised, starting with physiological needs and ending with self actualisation. I’m lucky, by most peoples standards I am a way up that particular triangle, but it is easy to forget what you have and assume everybody […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: empowerment, motivation, purpose, teamwork, training, trust

What Can a Lilo Teach You About Cost Control?

27 July, 2011 by James Lawther 1 Comment

Cost Control and Lilos

We all want to take cost out of our organisations The way we do it is by jumping up and down on the issue that is causing us most pain at the time. We jump on spending to reduce expenditure.  We jump on the finance budget, jump on the IT budget, jump on the postage […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: capability, cost saving

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