2012 Summer Olympics: Wembley Stadium Stops Taking Visa Cards TAGS: 2012 | athletics | best | blitz | cache | card | cash | cashless | consulting | control | crash | credit | eric ries | failure | faulty | fiasco | football | games | goodwill | great britain | kingdom | lean | limit | london | marketing | minimum viable product | mobile phones | olympics | operations | options | payment | popular | process | processes | redundant | registers | shepherd's bush | Soccer | sponsors | sports | stadium | system | telegraph | transactions | united | united arab emirates | visa | wembley Wembley Stadium management elected to stop accepting Visa cards as payment for tickets and concessions after some faults in the system developed at the cash registers during a soccer game …Continue reading →

Toyota Way Principle #13: Decide Slowly Through Consensus, Implement Rapidly TAGS: 13 | achieve | analysis | benefits | blitz | cause | change | consensus | consider | consulting | decisions | defects | delay | errors | evaluate | failure | five whys | fix | haste makes waste | implement | lean | management | operations | options | principle | problem | process | quick | rapidly | reap | root | sigma | six | slow | solve | sports | toyota | way (This is part of a series of posts covering the 14 principles from The Toyota Way. Today we’re examining The Toyota Way principle 13.) One of the risks of implementing changes or …Continue reading →

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