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Do You Suffer From Too Much Information?

19 May, 2012 by James Lawther 2 Comments

Too Much Information

I have a new car to drive It is fantastic, it is the best type of car in the world, it is my wife’s company car Everybody should have one of these, I don’t need to buy petrol, check the oil, top it up with water. I don’t even have to buy insurance. (Which is […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: data is not information, data presentation, key performance indicators

Average Handle Time

6 December, 2011 by James Lawther 7 Comments

Call Centre

If you have ever done any operations analysis in a contact centre you will know all about average handle time, the average time it takes your agents to “handle” a customer call. It is a key performance indicator (measure is a shorter way of putting that) designed to instil the fear of god into any […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: average handle time, back to the floor, key performance indicators

Measuring Employee Performance (a Short Cut)

29 November, 2011 by James Lawther 3 Comments

An age old problem Your staff aren’t really working the way you want them to, results are at best average, engagement is low. The age old solution to the age old problem is measures: “give them real measures that mean something to them, it will motivate them to perform better” Will it? What does a […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: back to the floor, employee performance measures, key performance indicators

The Office Tour

8 November, 2011 by James Lawther 2 Comments

Office Tour

Whenever I visit somewhere new I am always given a tour of the offices.  I am not entirely sure why.  I have been in offices in Manchester, London, Glasgow and Swansea and they all look the same. More to the point I have been to Bangalore, Washington, Rotterdam and Sydney and to be honest they […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: key performance indicators, manufacturing, office productivity, visual management

Process Noise and Coffee Sticks

8 October, 2011 by James Lawther 6 Comments

I would like you to do something for me, next time you are in Starbucks go and steal twenty of those sticks that they have for stirring coffee.  Go on I dare you, be a little dangerous. Next I want you to snap them all in half using your two bare hands. Finally I want […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: key performance indicators, process control, process noise, six sigma, statistical process control

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