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How to Change Behaviour or Why Fish Don’t Ride Bicycles

15 May, 2012 by James Lawther 1 Comment

It is a big challenge, maybe the big challenge.  How do you sustain change?  How do you get people to do something different, to change their behaviour? Here is a model to frame the problem… There are 5 stages people have to pass through before they will change their behaviour for good: Awareness Want Know […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: cycling, political will, reinforcing behaviour, video

The Right Way to Present Information

12 May, 2012 by James Lawther 6 Comments

dribbling like a baby

I have a pet hate, in fact it is more than that, it is guaranteed to wind me up, start me stuttering, twitching and dribbling from the corner of my mouth.  My pet hate is people dressing up piles of numbers as “analytics” and leaving me blinking at a slide, blankly wondering “what exactly is your point?” There is […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: data is not information, data presentation

Do You Hold Morning Briefings Like a TV Star?

8 May, 2012 by James Lawther 4 Comments

If you are of a certain age you will have Hill Street Blues burned into your memory.  One of the biggest TV shows of the 80’s.  It was horribly schmaltzy.  Admit it, you watched it Now you might be wondering, what that has this got to do with running a service operation? At the start […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: accountability, communication, effective meetings, video

The Easy Way to Manage Complexity

5 May, 2012 by James Lawther 2 Comments

Simplicity Einstein Quote

There are two lines of thought in most businesses; one says: “give the customers what they want, innovate, create new products, give them choice” The other says: “rationalise, focus, strip it back, cut the tail, decomplexify” (not strictly the Queen’s English that one) The irresistible force and the immovable object.  On one hand flexibility drives […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: Amazon, complexity, McDonald's

The Worst Thing That Can Happen in a Call Centre

1 May, 2012 by James Lawther 2 Comments

How bad can a day in a service centre get? Let’s be honest, nobody is going to die, not unless they are spectacularly unlucky and trip over a trailing cable What does a bad day look like? A bad day looks like this: Your colleagues in Marketing or IT or Pricing do something stupid to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Tools & Techniques, Wild Cards Tagged With: abandon rate, average handle time, bullwhip effect, call centre, capacity planning, queue

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