Officials in the Romanian town of Pecica have erected a number of road signs showing pictures of drunk revellers to drivers as a warning. Apparently the town has a vibrant night-life that doesn’t mix too well with cars.
Road signs can be great examples of process improvement. I like this one for a number of reasons:
1. It is a visual control, nice and clear.
2. It acts on an input; cars entering the city centre. Rather than checking that cars leaving the centre haven’t picked up a stray drunk.
3. Arguably it doesn’t get to the root cause; I am not sure what they are doing about the revelry.
4. It is a simple pragmatic solution.
Best of all though it highlights the need to think about stakeholders when implementing a control. I can just imagine what the good citizens of Nottingham would say if the city council started to put up similar signs around our city centre.
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