The Squawk Point

Organisational Mechanics

  • Home
  • Blog
    • People
    • Data
    • Process
    • Wild Cards
    • Index
  • Podcast
  • Book

How to Think Like an Auditor

16 July, 2012 by James Lawther 2 Comments

Auditor

On Friday I was audited If you live in a corporate world you will be familiar with the sensation.  I’d like to say I felt warm all over, but I would be lying (lying through my teeth). I was put through a “process audit” by an auditor in his mid 20’s, 6 foot 2 inches, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: auditors, business process management, customer requirements, measurement, process control, process mapping, risk assessment, roles and responsibilities

What is the Kano Model and Why Should You Care?

26 June, 2012 by James Lawther 5 Comments

Customers are selfish people. They want everything, they usually want it now, and worse still, what they say they want and what they really want are not necessarily the same thing.  Customers aren’t known for being clear. This is a bit of a problem. Fortunately in the 1980’s a very smart Japanese gentleman called Professor […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: customer requirements, East Midlands Trains, six sigma, video

Max your Meal

25 March, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Many if not most business processes have two parts to them. First make a decision: – Should I hire this person? – Is this an acceptable payment? – Can I give this employee access to the system? Second carry out the actions: – Send an offer letter. – Reject the payment. – Provide a password. […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: continuous improvement, customer requirements, error proofing, fast food, good service

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2

Explore

accountability assumptions beliefs best practice blame bureaucracy capability clarity command and control communication complexity continuous improvement cost saving culture customer focus data is not information decisions employee performance measures empowerment error proofing fessing up gemba human nature incentives information technology innovation key performance indicators learning management style measurement motivation performance management poor service process control purpose reinforcing behaviour service design silo management systems thinking targets teamwork test and learn trust video waste

Receive Posts by e-Mail

Get the next post delivered straight to your inbox

Creative Commons

This information from The Squawk Point is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Creative Commons Licence
Customer Experience Update

Try This:

  • Do Slogans Work for You?
  • The Pirate School of Management
  • How Netflix Reinvented H.R.
  • Go On, Trust Me

Connect

  • E-mail
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • YouTube
  • Cookies
  • Contact Me

Copyright © 2026 · Enterprise Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in