Comments on: Avoid the curse of the active banana! http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/ lean, six-sigma & quality Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:16:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: National Lottery UK http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/comment-page-1/#comment-1567 National Lottery UK Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:21:21 +0000 http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/#comment-1567 Good way to waste £7 million, deactivating all those bananas? Good way to waste £7 million, deactivating all those bananas?

]]> By: National Lottery UK http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/comment-page-1/#comment-919 National Lottery UK Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:21:21 +0000 http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/#comment-919 Good way to waste £7 million, deactivating all those bananas? Good way to waste £7 million, deactivating all those bananas?

]]> By: admin http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/comment-page-1/#comment-320 admin Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:47:09 +0000 http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/#comment-320 @shaun - [http://tinyurl.com/ysaz39] The National Insurance department at Longbenton, Northumberland, has been picked as a pilot site for the latest clear-desk concept. Revenue & Customs declined to say how much Unipart had been paid for the project. But a PCS spokesman said that the project was costing £7.4 million nationally. @anna - I agree. Perhaps the tape could have been better employed on someones mouth. [http://tinyurl.com/26vtyx] ______________________ More info: The consultants are Unipart, described on their website [http://www.unipart.co.uk/], somewhat cryptically, as a "pioneer of lean thinking". The union's branch secretary at Longbenton, Kevin McHugh, also pointed out a seemingly significant drawback to the plan - many of the desks are shared: "If the person coming in after you has longer arms, he will have to move the markers. This office has been open for 60 years and people have managed to find their pens and staplers without consultants helping them in that time." @shaun – [http://tinyurl.com/ysaz39]

The National Insurance department at Longbenton, Northumberland, has been picked as a pilot site for the latest clear-desk concept. Revenue & Customs declined to say how much Unipart had been paid for the project. But a PCS spokesman said that the project was costing £7.4 million nationally.

@anna – I agree. Perhaps the tape could have been better employed on someones mouth.

[http://tinyurl.com/26vtyx]
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More info:
The consultants are Unipart, described on their website [http://www.unipart.co.uk/], somewhat cryptically, as a “pioneer of lean thinking”.

The union’s branch secretary at Longbenton, Kevin McHugh, also pointed out a seemingly significant drawback to the plan – many of the desks are shared:

“If the person coming in after you has longer arms, he will have to move the markers. This office has been open for 60 years and people have managed to find their pens and staplers without consultants helping them in that time.”

]]> By: admin http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/comment-page-1/#comment-1566 admin Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:47:09 +0000 http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/#comment-1566 @shaun - [http://tinyurl.com/ysaz39]<br><br>The National Insurance department at Longbenton, Northumberland, has been picked as a pilot site for the latest clear-desk concept. Revenue & Customs declined to say how much Unipart had been paid for the project. But a PCS spokesman said that the project was costing £7.4 million nationally.<br><br>@anna - I agree. Perhaps the tape could have been better employed on someones mouth.<br><br>[http://tinyurl.com/26vtyx]<br>______________________<br><br>More info:<br>The consultants are Unipart, described on their website [http://www.unipart.co.uk/], somewhat cryptically, as a "pioneer of lean thinking".<br><br>The union's branch secretary at Longbenton, Kevin McHugh, also pointed out a seemingly significant drawback to the plan - many of the desks are shared:<br><br>"If the person coming in after you has longer arms, he will have to move the markers. This office has been open for 60 years and people have managed to find their pens and staplers without consultants helping them in that time." @shaun – [http://tinyurl.com/ysaz39]

The National Insurance department at Longbenton, Northumberland, has been picked as a pilot site for the latest clear-desk concept. Revenue & Customs declined to say how much Unipart had been paid for the project. But a PCS spokesman said that the project was costing £7.4 million nationally.

@anna – I agree. Perhaps the tape could have been better employed on someones mouth.

[http://tinyurl.com/26vtyx]
______________________

More info:
The consultants are Unipart, described on their website [http://www.unipart.co.uk/], somewhat cryptically, as a “pioneer of lean thinking”.

The union's branch secretary at Longbenton, Kevin McHugh, also pointed out a seemingly significant drawback to the plan – many of the desks are shared:

“If the person coming in after you has longer arms, he will have to move the markers. This office has been open for 60 years and people have managed to find their pens and staplers without consultants helping them in that time.”

]]> By: anna forss http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/comment-page-1/#comment-319 anna forss Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:09:58 +0000 http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/#comment-319 Does anyone know if they used the tape on any people. Like that guy: he's really productive. But that guy, he's probably waste. I hope they taped up the consultants and threw them out. What is fun with all these processes and tool, in what ever area you might find them, is that people who likes having the label MANAGER on them finds the appropriate things in the theory and uses that to continue what they already are doing. Does anyone know if they used the tape on any people. Like that guy: he’s really productive. But that guy, he’s probably waste. I hope they taped up the consultants and threw them out.

What is fun with all these processes and tool, in what ever area you might find them, is that people who likes having the label MANAGER on them finds the appropriate things in the theory and uses that to continue what they already are doing.

]]> By: anna forss http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/comment-page-1/#comment-1565 anna forss Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:09:58 +0000 http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/#comment-1565 Does anyone know if they used the tape on any people. Like that guy: he's really productive. But that guy, he's probably waste. I hope they taped up the consultants and threw them out.<br><br>What is fun with all these processes and tool, in what ever area you might find them, is that people who likes having the label MANAGER on them finds the appropriate things in the theory and uses that to continue what they already are doing. Does anyone know if they used the tape on any people. Like that guy: he's really productive. But that guy, he's probably waste. I hope they taped up the consultants and threw them out.

What is fun with all these processes and tool, in what ever area you might find them, is that people who likes having the label MANAGER on them finds the appropriate things in the theory and uses that to continue what they already are doing.

]]> By: shaun sayers http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/comment-page-1/#comment-312 shaun sayers Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:37:08 +0000 http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/#comment-312 I may be wrong, but is this Newcastle Office with the black desk tape and inactive bananas the very same one that only today has managed to lose the personal and financial details of over 25 million child benefit claimants? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm I may be wrong, but is this Newcastle Office with the black desk tape and inactive bananas the very same one that only today has managed to lose the personal and financial details of over 25 million child benefit claimants?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm

]]> By: shaun sayers http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/comment-page-1/#comment-1564 shaun sayers Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:37:08 +0000 http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/#comment-1564 I may be wrong, but is this Newcastle Office with the black desk tape and inactive bananas the very same one that only today has managed to lose the personal and financial details of over 25 million child benefit claimants?<br><br><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm</a> I may be wrong, but is this Newcastle Office with the black desk tape and inactive bananas the very same one that only today has managed to lose the personal and financial details of over 25 million child benefit claimants?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm

]]> By: shaun sayers http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/comment-page-1/#comment-310 shaun sayers Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:35:04 +0000 http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/#comment-310 Oh how I would LOVE to know who those consultants were Oh how I would LOVE to know who those consultants were

]]> By: shaun sayers http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/comment-page-1/#comment-1563 shaun sayers Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:35:04 +0000 http://learnsigma.com/avoid-the-curse-of-the-active-banana/#comment-1563 Oh how I would LOVE to know who those consultants were Oh how I would LOVE to know who those consultants were

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