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My Favourite Pub

6 January, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I went to a fascinating talk the other day about social media.  The presenter claimed that you could find a review about pretty much anything on-line. I thought I would give it a go, I Googled the name of my favourite pub and the 3rd item was a review site called beerintheevening.com.  Not only does […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: poor service, social media

Brain Scan

8 December, 2009 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Ambulance

Glasgow’s Western infirmary owns a £500,000 CT scanner (computerised tomography if you must know, though I am not much wiser).  Apparently it is used to scan patients’ brains if they are thought to have had a stroke. Unfortunately it has been idle for the past six months as the radiographer who operated it left the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: capacity, medicine, silo management, transportation waste

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