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Tag Archives: performance
The People vs The System
GRUDGE MATCH!! In the red corner: “Our people are our greatest asset”. “The people ARE the system”. In the blue corner: “94% of performance comes from the system; 6% from the people”. Which is better? There’s only one way to … Continue reading
Posted in Systems thinking
Tagged efficiency gains, management, performance, police, systems, systems thinking
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The Performance Swear Box
If you’re ever talking about performance and you hear any of these phrases coming out of your mouth… “…compared to this time last year / last month / last week / the average / the target / the other department, team or … Continue reading
Ant Death Circle
On the train to work this morning, a friend told me about a fascinating phenomenon known as the ‘Ant Death Circle’ (also called the ‘Ant Death Spiral’ or ‘Ant Mill’). What happens is that ants sometimes lose the pheromone track laid down for … Continue reading
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Tagged command and control, management, performance, performance management, short blog, systems thinking
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(Not So) Bad Performance Measurement On Tour (#3)
‘Data have no meaning apart from their context’. – Donald Wheeler Cast your mind back to Episode One of this series. No beer, no food, no chillies; just trains. The examples provided in that blog post highlighted the dire (but … Continue reading
Would You Like Sub-Optimization With That?
Maybe this is ill-timed, not being long after my ‘weight loss’ blog post, but here’s another story from the land of “Is that large?” In my defence, I was on a long journey and was so hungry when I stopped … Continue reading
Posted in Systems thinking
Tagged flow, management, performance, police, queuing theory, rational choice, sub-optimization, systems, systems thinking, targets
11 Comments
Bad Performance Measurement on Tour (#2)
Just one day after Episode One of this tragedy series, one of my faithful readers told me about a target so ridiculous that it would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious. During a hospital training session, those attending were … Continue reading
Posted in Systems thinking
Tagged deming, nhs, performance, performance management, police, systems, systems thinking, targets, variation
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How To Lose Weight With Systems Thinking
One of the key tenets of systems thinking is understanding variation. Deming said: “Life is variation. Variation there will always be, between people, in output, in service, in product”. This applies to weight loss as much as everything else. People … Continue reading
Posted in Systems thinking
Tagged binary comparisons, control chart, data, performance, spc, systems, systems thinking, variation
24 Comments
Check It Out
I never plan to write blog posts – ideas just tend to pop into my head when doing random stuff. Today was one of those days. What follows isn’t particularly exciting, shocking or controversial, and no doubt I will be … Continue reading
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Tagged flow, performance, process improvement, systems, systems thinking, waste
10 Comments
The Perfect Target
Okay, so those of you who have read my blogs will be familiar with my views on numerical targets in policing – in short I argue that they should all be abolished, without exception. This is because they generate perverse … Continue reading
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Tagged command and control, gaming, performance, police, spc, systems, targets
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Stay Calm And Don’t Knee-Jerk.
At school my least favourite subject was maths. I could never quite understand the point of learning how to calculate the volume of a traffic cone or surface area of a football. Fast forward a few years to my early … Continue reading
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