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It Will Never Catch On

12 July, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

The video below shows the electric sports car the Tesla It has a top speed of 125mph and does 0 to 60 in 3.9 secondsEach charge will propel it up to 200 miles and costs £3.50Unfortunately each car costs £92,000 but no doubt that will fall once they have made more than 10 of them. […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: capability, infrastructure, innovation, revenue generation, video

Blazing Saddles

12 July, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I found an interesting news clip from the BBC that shows a fire fighters motorcycle. The motorcycle is fitted with a hose and a couple of foam tanks.  The premise is that instead of sending a £200,000 fire engine full of fire fighters to a wheelie bin blaze, the fire brigade can now dispatch one […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: best practice, capability, innovation

Keep Your Eye on the Baton

12 July, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

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3 world records for you: 1.  400m: Michael Johnson, 1999, 43.18 seconds (10.80 seconds/100m) 2.  100m: Usain Bolt, 2009, 9.58 seconds (9.58 seconds/ 100m) 3.  4 x 100m relay: Jamaica, 2008, 37.10 seconds (9.28 seconds/100m) If you want to be fast, focus on the runner, buy the best shoes; and most of all focus on […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: best practice, purpose, teamwork, video

Congruence

12 July, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Have you ever walked in to a hotel room to find all the lights switched on, with the legend “Welcome to our hotel Mr Smith” writ large all over the gently humming TV. The intention is to give you a warm welcome, never mind all the wasted power. Yet the same hotel will ask you […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: clarity, mixed messages, purpose

Super Mario

12 July, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Mario Andretti is the only racing driver to have won the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500 and the Formula One world championship. He is quoted as saying “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” I don’t drive racing cars but I know that if you don’t overtake, you will never win. Should […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: decisions

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