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Need Another Drink

24 March, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

E&J Gallo, the Californian winery has been caught in a scam, a 7 million euro scam. A group of wine producers from the Languedoc region have passed off 18 million bottles of plonk as Pinot Noir.  This has been bottled and sold  under Gallo’s “Red Bicyclette Pinot Noir Single Grape Wine” brand. The fraud came […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: accountability, error proofing, over-processing, process control, video

Politically Correct

12 February, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

In response to the political scandal about MP’s expense claims, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (ipsa) has been set up.  IPSA will consist of 80 members of staff and is expected to cost £6.5 million every year.  This is on top of the £1.5 million that has already been spent on audits and enquiries into […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: bureaucracy, government, over-processing, political intervention

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