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Can’t Or Won’t?

12 January, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

The biggest complaint about administrative processes is the amount of red tape we have to deal with.   So what is red tape? “The mechanical and totally unnecessary adherence to regulations, needless duplication of records and the compilation of excessive amount of extraneous information resulting in prolonged delay or inaction.” I got that from The China […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: bureaucracy, trust

No Will? No Way!

7 January, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

The earthquake in Haiti has lead to the cutting of red tape allowing orphans to be adopted in both Holland and the USA.  They are not being forced to go through all the bureaucratic hurdles associated with visas, passports and adoption papers. I am not qualified to say if this is ethically the right thing […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: bureaucracy, political will

Running out of Doctors

4 December, 2009 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

The British Medical Association claims to have uncovered department of health data that shows that there was a shortfall of 3,000 junior doctors at the end of 2008.  Two factors are being blamed for this, changes to immigration legislation that prevents people from outside the EU coming to train as doctors and also the European […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: bureaucracy, capacity, capacity planning, medicine, recruitment

Is Bigger Better?

4 December, 2009 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

West Yorkshire council may start sharing services in a bid to cut costs.  Councillor Andrew Carter who is the Conservative deputy leader of Leeds City council has suggested that the councils of Leeds, Calderdale, Bradford, Kirklees and Wakefield could share services such as HR and payroll. There may be efficiencies to be had, but I […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: bureaucracy, economies of scale, local government, shared services

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