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Emotional Sub-Optimisation

1 April, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I received a flyer from an organic food company.  One of their selling points is that they keep packaging to a minimum.  Sounds sensible.  Less waste in the environment. When you look into it though it isn’t quite that easy.  According to the Advisory Committee on Packaging:–  1.5 grams of plastic extends the shelf life […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: clarity, communication, measurement, political will, silo management, waste

Pit Stop

29 March, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

The video shows a Formula One pit stop.  It fascinated me for a number of reasons. 1.  It is very clear what needs to be achieved. 2.  Everybody is sure what their role is and well trained. 3.  The people who are there are the people who need to be there.  Nobody else is milling […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: cost saving, purpose, roles and responsibilities, silo management, tampering, video

Don’t Trust Them

4 February, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

FBI

I found a fascinating article on Euronews about the state of America’s security agencies.  As well as the FBI and the CIA there are 14 other agencies, all of which report through to the “Director of National Intelligence”. Apparently what these 16 agencies don’t know between them isn’t worth knowing. The failings in US counter […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: bureaucracy, government, silo management, trust

Christmas Wishes?

24 December, 2009 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I was sent this, by my friend Scott.  It is funny, in a very sad sort of way.  It demonstrates quite nicely how we can absolutely miss the point of what we are doing and get completely side tracked. I wanted to send some sort of Festive greeting to my friends  and family, but it […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: Christmas, communication, complexity, jargon, purpose, silo management

Brain Scan

8 December, 2009 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Ambulance

Glasgow’s Western infirmary owns a £500,000 CT scanner (computerised tomography if you must know, though I am not much wiser).  Apparently it is used to scan patients’ brains if they are thought to have had a stroke. Unfortunately it has been idle for the past six months as the radiographer who operated it left the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: capacity, medicine, silo management, transportation waste

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