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Are You Difficult to Work For?

13 November, 2015 by Annette Franz (Gleneicki) 3 Comments

Customer effort There’s a lot of talk about how much effort a customer is required to put forth to complete some task with an organization. Whether it’s to buy a product, to get an issue resolved, or to do something else. There’s even a way to measure this effort, using the customer effort score. If […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: bureaucracy, customer effort, employee performance measures, management style, waste

What is an Organisation?

8 November, 2015 by James Lawther 4 Comments

You can’t improve it if you don’t understand it You can’t improve your organisation if you don’t understand what an organisation is. So I googled organisation, this is what I found: Organisation: noun /ɔːɡ(ə)nʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ An organised group of people with a particular purpose. – “a research organisation” The action of organising something. – “the organisation of conferences” The quality […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: beliefs, point optimisation, systems thinking, video

5 Ways to Cultivate Evidence Based Management

31 October, 2015 by Oliver Cunningham 3 Comments

In my last post I argued for E.B.M. (evidence based management) as an approach that will help you: Make the best possible decisions As fast as possible At the lowest possible cost Here are some suggestion on how to promote E.B.M. in your own organisation. 1. Change your own mind Management deals with social problems, not mechanical […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: key performance indicators, objective setting, plan do check act, reinforcing behaviour

Short-Term Management

26 October, 2015 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Short Term Thinking

The curse of short-termism We focus on the immediate future:  The stock market obsesses about interim returns Politicians like to see instant results Managers must hit quarterly targets  We rarely look beyond the next 6 months. It is easy to hit a short-term target It doesn’t take too much talent or imagination: If you have to cut […]

Filed Under: Blog, Wild Cards Tagged With: management style, poor service, short term thinking, systems thinking, targets

The Ultimate Business Constraint

20 October, 2015 by James Lawther 5 Comments

Running a business is tough I used to run my own business. It was hard work. I have the utmost respect for anybody who does it. The constraint on my business wasn’t the lack of good ideas or cash — I have plenty of ideas and I could always find somebody to lend me money. […]

Filed Under: Blog, Wild Cards Tagged With: human nature, management style, trust

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