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The Problem with Management Information

July 24, 2012 By James Lawther Leave a Comment
by Adam Jones, Ph.D

My local taxi company has been taken over.  It has been bought out by Taxi-Rank Services PLC. They have started to apply big business thinking to a small business. It is a revelation. As you know, “what gets measured gets managed” so the first job, post take-over, was to apply a little science to their [...]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: dashboard, kpi report, management information, taxi

Do You Work for an Idiot?

July 9, 2011 By James Lawther 3 Comments
Scarey man with accordion

Here is a process improvement idea for you. It is called “poke yoke”. I am told that that is Japanese for “making things easy to get right and difficult to get wrong”. It is a rather grand name for what my old boss used to call “idiot proofing”. Let me give you an example: think [...]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: clarity, customer, measures, poke yoke, presentation, report, simplicity, understanding

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