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Live With It

22 March, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I have a friend who regularly catches a taxi from London to Heathrow and back, twice a week, without fail. He booked a cab with his normal firm, but on-line for the first time, the other night.  The web site didn’t work.  After processing his booking instead of getting a confirmation he got a broken […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: continuous improvement, poor service, purpose, revenue generation, video

How to Calculate the Cost of Poor Quality

4 March, 2010 by James Lawther 1 Comment

Coat of Quality

Do you ever have quality problems? Here is a technique to help you work through the cost of poor quality.  Get a group of people in a room and the ask them to estimate the answers to the following questions. How many customers do you treat badly each year? How many of them complain? When […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: cost of poor quality, cost saving, poor service, waste

Sheet Music

22 February, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

My daughter has just started music lessons.  She is so keen and enthusiastic it is hard not to like the god awful noise that she makes. I had to go to a classical music shop to buy her a special CD to listen to as part of her studies.  As I walked through the shop […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: customer focus, poor service, revenue generation, xylophone

KISS

1 February, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I bought a train ticket to London over the internet, it cost me £131.00.  I decided to pick it up at the station rather than pay to have it delivered. At 6:15 in the morning I entered my 8 digit code into the machine only to be told that I also needed to insert the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: East Midlands Trains, error proofing, information technology, poor service, video

My Favourite Pub

6 January, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I went to a fascinating talk the other day about social media.  The presenter claimed that you could find a review about pretty much anything on-line. I thought I would give it a go, I Googled the name of my favourite pub and the 3rd item was a review site called beerintheevening.com.  Not only does […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: poor service, social media

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