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You Are Kidding Me, Right?

22 January, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

A BBC photographer has been stopped from taking pictures of St Paul’s Cathedral by the police. The PC did this because there was a risk that the photographer could have been an al Qaeda operative planning on blowing the building up.  You can see the BBC news clip here. I doubt very much that the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: bureaucracy, risk assessment

Just How Bad Could It Be?

21 January, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Yesterday I posted a comment about risk assessment and how it leads to some really stupid activity.  This is not to say that risk assessment is a waste of time, just the over zealous, avoid risk at all costs type. This leads to the question “what does good risk assessment look like?”  Rather than banging […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: risk assessment, video

Global Warming? Pah!

20 January, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I am sitting in my office, slowly turning blue, looking at a good 4 inches of snow.  I thought it was supposed to be getting warmer, the ice caps should be melting and half of East Anglia is going to be under water, yet here I am slowly freezing to death.  Clearly the scientists are […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: data presentation, global warming, point measure, process control

Are You Worth £150k?

19 January, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

A very interesting article today about how the government plans to cap the salaries of top earners.  The BBC was called out as a particular problem.  Apparently everybody with a salary of more than £150,000 who works in the Public Sector will have to explain to the government why they are worth so much.  In […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: bureaucracy, political intervention, salaries, tampering, trust

No Way In

18 January, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I found this picture on the “learning about lean” blog.  It made me smile. This is an obvious case of mixed messages, but it isn’t just a problem for sign posts.  Have you ever come across the same issue when you are filling in a form and wondered what on earth you are supposed to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Process Improvement Tagged With: error proofing, road sign

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