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Glory Lasts Forever

9 May, 2015 by James Lawther 7 Comments

I have a problem with motivational speeches I watched “The Replacements” last night.  I can’t urge you strongly enough to avoid it.  The plot went something like this (and I am not spoiling it, the director did that). Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves) flunks it as an Ohio State University quarterback. A national team “The Washington Sentinels” go […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: communication, motivation, rhetoric, systems thinking, video

Do You Understand the System?

24 April, 2015 by James Lawther 7 Comments

The pressure is on Your cost base is spiralling upwards, your boss is squealing, and his boss is squealing louder. Unless you get a firm grip of the situation you are going to get lots of “executive help”.  You need to do something and do it now. When caught like this it is easy — perhaps […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: complexity, root cause analysis, short term thinking, systems thinking, video

Management Beliefs

29 March, 2015 by James Lawther 7 Comments

Performance Management

The way we act is based on our beliefs Sometimes these beliefs are based on strong evidence and sometimes, well, less so. Of course this is as true in management as any other human endeavour. Are our management beliefs based on evidence? Have a look at the slideshare below and tell me what you think? […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: beliefs, performance management, SlideShare, systems thinking, targets

The Sure Thing

28 September, 2014 by James Lawther 4 Comments

white elephant

Pain and despair Imagine you run a servicing centre. You have a staff of 100 who fill in forms to order things for customers. Maybe they process applications Maybe they fill in patient’s details Maybe they capture the details of car repairs You get the gist of it… Lots of people, lots of information and lots of screw […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: assumptions, capital investment, continuous improvement, devil is in the detail, information technology, listening, office productivity, root cause analysis, systems thinking

The Dreadful Secret About Process Maps

8 June, 2014 by James Lawther 7 Comments

Process Mapping

Boxes and Arrows It is one of the greatest quality management tools… And you all know how to do it.  You all know how to draw up a process map or create a flow chart.  It’s easy, you write the activity in the box and then link it to the next box with an arrow.  Simple. And […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: business process management, culture, process mapping, systems thinking

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