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The Great Process Improvement Secret

19 October, 2014 by James Lawther 8 Comments

How to be a Process Guru What is the one simple truth the Process Improvement Gurus know? Just flick through the SlideShare and I will spill the beans…  Full screen is best.   Unfortunately, if you are reading this via e-Mail you will have to visit SlideShare to find out.  In full Technicolor glory. If you enjoyed this […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: beliefs, lean thinking, management style, SlideShare

Are Sales Incentives a Good Thing?

11 October, 2014 by James Lawther 7 Comments

Saint Francis de Sales

Should you incentivise your sales staff? It is widely known that if you want to drive sales you need to incentivise your staff.  Sales men are a mercenary lot and they only respond to cash. Paying out large sales incentives is the default option. Yet a few companies that don’t believe in individual incentives.  Instead, they […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: beliefs, incentives, point optimisation, sales, teamwork

The “A” Team

4 October, 2014 by James Lawther 5 Comments

Mr T Fool

The escalation What do you do when things get out of hand?  When your staff are bombarded with queries that they can’t handle? There are two lines of thought… Management Model 1: First split your staff into two pools, the experienced people who know what they are doing and the less so (who presumably don’t) […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: beliefs, call centre, cheap and nasty, escalation, first call resolution, learning, mitigating demand, office productivity

The Sure Thing

28 September, 2014 by James Lawther 4 Comments

white elephant

Pain and despair Imagine you run a servicing centre. You have a staff of 100 who fill in forms to order things for customers. Maybe they process applications Maybe they fill in patient’s details Maybe they capture the details of car repairs You get the gist of it… Lots of people, lots of information and lots of screw […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: assumptions, capital investment, continuous improvement, devil is in the detail, information technology, listening, office productivity, root cause analysis, systems thinking

Books Won’t Make You Clever

21 September, 2014 by James Lawther 14 Comments

Children learning

Correlation does not imply causation There is an apocryphal tale about an inner city education department in the American Mid West. In their efforts to increase children’s performance they commissioned an extensive study of the socioeconomic environment their students were raised in, to see what impact it had on a child’s educational prospects.  The study delivered […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: beliefs, correlation, data is not information, global warming, root cause analysis, six sigma

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