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Why Stereotyping Makes Issues Look Like a Wolves

15 March, 2012 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Stereotype

Your brain is amazing It has a rekmabrale kanck of tainkg in ltos of infotmraion, sitfing it and cnretaig mennaig from it.  It deos this by mtahcing pttaerns, lokoing for comnomality with tnihgs that it has seen in the psat, and tehn finlig taht infotmarion away.  That is why you are albe to mkae ssene […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: innovation, problem solving, stereotype

Customer Service the Virgin Atlantic Way

10 March, 2012 by James Lawther 12 Comments

Magic Touch 1

People love Virgin Atlantic.  If you Google “I love Virgin Atlantic” you’ll get 79,000 hits, try doing that for British Airways and the number is 50,000.  A number that isn’t too shocking until you realise that BA have ten times as many planes as Virgin. The “I hate” figures tell a very similar story. But […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: aviation, good service, make it so good they will want to come back and bring their friends

You Have to Collect the Dots Before You Join Them

6 March, 2012 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Insight is all about collecting the dots

To innovate you need insight You need to know stuff, how things work, how people think, what makes the world tick As you collect ideas, concepts, thoughts, insights in your head then gradually connections will start to form, you will start to see new possibilities and create new things, you will innovate A precursor to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: innovation, insight

Do You Test and Learn or Just Fail?

3 March, 2012 by James Lawther 2 Comments

Samuel Pierpont Langley dreamed of being the first man to fly an aeroplane. His approach was simple, build the most powerful engine he could.  Strap a couple of wings to it and watch it go. He was well funded.  He and a large staff focused all their attention on developing a big muscular engine, something […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: aviation, innovation, test and learn, video

How to Use Logic Trees and The Power of Leverage

28 February, 2012 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Logic Tree

The long list Whatever you do for a living there are lots of ways you could improve things.  If you were to sit down with a pen and paper for five minutes and start to write a list I have no doubt that it would be a long list, a long, long list. Getting to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: logic tree, problem solving, six sigma

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