A recent article on the BBC website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33318668 highlighted a business process question, typical of businesses around the world.
Pizza Express, the restaurant chain, needed to decide who should chop their lemons?
Historically it was the waiter's job, the first thing they did when they arrived for work in the morning. That way all the lemons were sliced and ready to drop into the drinks orders for the day. But then one of the pizza chefs said it just didn't make any sense. They spent all morning chopping and dicing the toppings for pizzas whereas the waiters had to take a break from their usual tasks, wash their hands, clear a space and then clean up after themselves. Eventually it was decided that across the world Pizza Express' chefs would be in charge of chopping the lemons.
This is precisely the sort of story that goes to the heart of the whole productivity question that so interests the Chancellor George Osborne and the productivity puzzle is something that he is apparently going to address in his Budget on Wednesday.
Statistics show UK workers produce less per hour than workers in many other industrialised economies and Mr Osbourne promised to unveil a plan designed to "make Britain work better”.
What do you know about productivity and efficient use of resources in your businesses? How do you gather information regarding work management and costs both of staff and equipment?
Empresa can help. We will advise you on how you can use IT to provide you with data that you need. As well as providing the information for you to make decisions, we can help by working with you to introduce new processes and integrating your existing systems to save you time and money.
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