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What do You Believe?

13 April, 2013 by James Lawther 9 Comments

Mermaid

Belief (noun): an acceptance that something is true, usually without proof a strongly held opinion, something accepted as real or true a religious conviction We all have beliefs, things that we hold to be true, it is our way of making sense of the world. Our beliefs are usually based on something we have seen […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: beliefs, innovation, stereotype, test and learn

Red Tape and the Duke of Wellington

12 April, 2013 by James Lawther 2 Comments

Central Spain, August 1812 A message to the British Foreign Office in London from the Duke of Wellington: Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the  approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by H.M. ship from London to Lisbon […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: bureaucracy, purpose

Old Wives Tales and Conventional Wisdom

12 April, 2013 by James Lawther 7 Comments

Girl with scarf

I spent Easter with my mother, siblings, their spouses and eight children. The weather was truly awful. I caught my daughter singing; “I’m dreaming of a white Easter”.  In the bleak North of England it snowed on Good Friday. There are few things as unpleasant as 8 children running around a house screaming.   So despite the weather […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: assumptions, dogmatism, test and learn

5 Easy Ways to Increase Employee Engagement

3 April, 2013 by Stan Phelps 4 Comments

Birthday Cake

This is a guest post by Stan Phelps After studying 1,001 examples of companies that give little unexpected extras to employees, here are 5 easy ways to increase engagement from the new book, “What’s Your Green Goldfish – Beyond Dollars: 15 Ways to Drive Employee Engagement and Reinforce Culture” 1. Onboarding You never get a […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: employee recognition, incentives

Should you Standardise?

31 March, 2013 by James Lawther 5 Comments

There is a line of thought that says standardise your processes. After all without standardisation you just have anarchy. But every customer is different There is another line of thought that every customer is different: So no customer wants a standard outcome. If you insist in giving cookie-cutter service all you will do is create […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: bad process, customer requirements, standardisation, variation

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