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Why Service Operations are So Much Harder to Manage

9 June, 2012 by James Lawther 2 Comments

Factory

We can be a little elitist in the service industry.  We look down our noses at our manufacturing cousins.  We deal with intangibles, they deal with things, and let’s be honest, they tend to be dirty noisy things at that. But pride comes before a fall.  Here are a handful of prejudices about our uncouth […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: benchmarking, insight, manufacturing

10 Things You Really Should Know if You Run an Operation

6 June, 2012 by James Lawther 2 Comments

The Pamphlet

I am now a published author That is not strictly accurate, but why let the truth get in the way of a good story? Let me try again I have written an e-book; well it is more of an e-pamphlet It is available at all good book stores; well OK it is self published and is only […]

Filed Under: Blog, Tools & Techniques, Wild Cards Tagged With: clarity, communication, continuous improvement, cost saving, customer focus, error proofing, fessing up, measurement, purpose, waste

7 Ways to Make Your Own Luck

3 June, 2012 by James Lawther 2 Comments

Leprechaun

I am all for a bit of process improvement, it moves the world forward, but sometimes process improvement by itself isn’t enough.  As the man said: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses ~ Henry Ford If you really want a breakthrough there is a bit more to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Wild Cards Tagged With: innovation, insight, luck

Why Giving Away Your Profits Makes Financial Sense

28 May, 2012 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Here is an action packed game for you to play at home; it is called the ultimatum game, the rules are very simple: Two people are given £1,000 to split between them.  One of the players proposes how the money should be split and makes an offer.  The other player gets to accept or reject […]

Filed Under: Blog, Wild Cards Tagged With: cycling, trust, video

What is the One Thing Your Staff Won’t Tell You?

26 May, 2012 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Mad Scientist

Imagine that you saw a newspaper advert.  It said that the psychology department at your local university was running a “memory study” and that it wanted paid volunteers for an hour-long experiment You were having a slack morning so you decided to give it a go At the laboratory you met two men; one, the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: back to the floor, gemba

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