An Australian cook book, “The Pasta Bible” has a rather unique ingredient. One recipe calls for “salt and freshly ground black people“. A small proof reading error cost £12,000 in pulped stock. If you regularly send customers letters you will know proof reading is hard, if not impossible. There are three ways to deal with […]
Jumping to Conclusions
Today there was a news article about the Student Loans Company. If you remember there was a scandal last year when they failed to get students their loans before the start of the academic year. The National Audit Office has stated that they believe there is a “substantial” risk of delays again this year. The […]
Good Service?
My wife has a new car, a BMW; the ultimate driving machine apparently. She took it in for its first service yesterday. She was met at the door by a smartly dressed gentleman with a “Good morning Mrs Lawther”, presumably he had a list of registration numbers to look out for. Unfortunately there was a […]
Save Yourself Rich
All operations are too expensive, no matter how good they are there is always an obligation to reduce cost further, and when the cost has been taken out there will always be pressure to remove more. There are 5 key problems that are common to operations of all types: 1. There are numerous opinions about […]