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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

Innovation Constraints and Lateral Thinking

29 September, 2012 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Innovation Constraints

In the third world, 4 million children die every year within a month of birth. It’s an avoidable tragedy If half of those children were simply kept warm and clean they would survive. In the developed world we have incubators that do exactly that.  I spent the first week of my life in one.  And […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: bitching and moaning, bottleneck, constraints, innovation, Toyota

The Best Way to Spend Friday Afternoon

28 August, 2012 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Hack Week

What is important to you at work?  What is the thing that you are really bothered about, the thing that needs fixing?  What is the one issue that you could work on that would really make things better? What is your big idea? If your boss gave you Friday afternoon to do whatever you wanted […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: fedex day, Google, hack day, innovation, twenty percent time, Twitter

Why Would You Want to Work for Google?

19 July, 2012 by James Lawther 2 Comments

Google Canteen

I have never visited Google (not strictly true, been there thousands of times but never in a physical sense) but I hear it is a fabulous place to work.  They have some of the most engaged employees in the world. When people talk about it one of the topics that quickly surfaces is the food.  […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: colleagues, Google, innovation

Brainstorm Like a… Like a erh… Professional Brainstormer

3 July, 2012 by James Lawther 6 Comments

Ideas man

I have worked with lots of companies (more than is strictly necessary).  They are all different: different people, different cultures and different ambitions.  But there are some things that are universal; and high on that list is the desire to innovate, to find the breakthrough that will make them the best, a household name, the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: brainstorm, innovation

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