All processes have a bottle neck, a rate limiting step. Something that holds them back. There is always a bottleneck. Maybe it’s the neck of the bottle: Maybe it’s the speed of the pump: Maybe it’s the width of the falls: Maybe it’s even the lack of rain: But there is always a bottleneck or […]
How to Avoid Looking Stupid
We have all done it, jumped to the wrong conclusion, acted on it and then looked stupid. We are genetically designed to do it. There is even an explanation for it. It is called the “ladder of inference”. Here is how you climb it: The ladder of inference Step 1: Take in the facts, the […]
Making Life Difficult
In 2010 the H.B.R. published the article Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers. The big idea was that focusing on reducing “customer effort” is a far better way to improve customer loyalty than worrying about customer satisfaction “C.S.A.T.” or net promoter score “N.P.S.”. Now this was heresy and it provoked a mass of intellectual debate […]
How to Count
Apologies Before I start, I apologise for this post: For those of you of a six sigma nature I apologise, you might find this a bit Janet and John. For those of you of a non six sigma nature, I apologise for your six sigma brethren. They really ought to have told you this, it is quite important. In God we […]
T.C. Analysis
The Big Sell Possibly the most important process improvement tool of our age, T.C. Analysis allows you to: Capture process defects in the moment Identify critical improvement opportunities Perform simultaneous analyses of cause and effect Observe worker / manager interactions Capture customer feedback Undertake instantaneous trials Rapidly develop alternatives to test mechanisms that are sub-optimal Develop […]
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