Simon Guilfoyle
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Tag Archives: handovers
Silos
These imposing monolithic structures, silhouetted against the moody twilight sky, are silos. Actual silos. Not theoretical silos in a book about organisational structures or systems design, but vast, towering, dirty, functional, tangible silos, silently displacing thousands upon thousands of cubic metres of … Continue reading
Posted in Systems thinking
Tagged division of labour, flow, handovers, management, silos, systems, systems thinking, variety, waste
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Great Expectations
Recently I had a minor prang in my beloved car. (I won’t go into detail for legal reasons, but I was neither texting, daydreaming about systems, nor changing dodgy 80s CDs in the CD player at the time it happened). … Continue reading
Posted in Systems thinking
Tagged demand, division of labour, flow, handovers, management, process improvement, systems thinking, variety, waste
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Divide And Don’t Conquer
In my last post (“Pie In The Sky”), I talked a bit about the effect of handovers within systems, and how they almost always result in waste, delays and inefficiencies. This post is going to look at this concept in a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Systems thinking
Tagged deming, division of labour, hand offs, handovers, lean, management, process improvement, systems, systems thinking
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