Category Archives: System Behaviour

Wellbeing – ONS First View

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Dr_JAH

Initial attempts to characterise “wellbeing” have been published by the ONS today (01.12.11). They have released some simple analysis of the answer to 4 questions, namely: 1) ‘Overall, how satisfied are you with your life nowadays? 2) Overall, to what … Continue reading →

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Export Strategy…

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dr_JAH

Prompted by news on Monday (21.11.11) of a drive for raising exports, presented at the CBI conference, I felt compelled to respond with my thoughts on the bigger “balance of trade” picture. As ever, it’s a bit raw, but I … Continue reading →

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Lean Starts at Home …

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Dr_JAH

Lean Home ? Right. I’ve identified my customers (children, wife, cat), established value from the customer’s point-of-view using a customer survey (an impressive 66% postal feedback), drawn some value stream maps, identified waste, bottlenecks and opportunities for value creation, then 5S’d the clothes, SMED’d the … Continue reading →

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Interesting Bits from this Week (1)

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Dr_JAH

Just sharing some interesting items so far this week: 1) Complexity (Systems) in Economics : – well the Nobel prize went to a pair that had looked at similar stuff to that which I’m interested in : http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2011/info.pdf – This popped … Continue reading →

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Anomie

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Dr_JAH

Was struck by the sentiments expressed on Newsnight report (tweeted this lunchtime). See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9603216.stm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter In part of my exploration of the possible use of lean or other business philosophies and techniques at different scales of economic system, last December, I was … Continue reading →

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Update: Neutrinos, Satellites, Economy and Causality

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Dr_JAH

Neutrinos: fascinating webcast lecture Friday from the CERN OPERA chap. Lots of explaination of corrections and stuff. This might have been one of the questions (maybe the one about drilling a hole in the tunnel) but I would have thought that … Continue reading →

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UK Manufacturing: 3000 BAE Jobs Cut ?

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Dr_JAH

I’m just hearing (wake up BBC Business !) that BAE Systems are likely to cut 3000 jobs in Lancs, on the back of reduced defence spending. This is an attrocious indication for UK manufacturing, not just for aerospace and defence. Discuss To … Continue reading →

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Economy : More thoughts on UK GDP Data (3)

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dr_JAH

In this post I wanted to expand on one of the findings from post no. 2. Here I’ve looked at best fit models from the persepective of different points in time, at ten year intervals, to see if at that point … Continue reading →

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