{"id":690,"date":"2010-12-13T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T11:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=690"},"modified":"2010-12-13T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T11:41:13","slug":"quality-and-value-chocolate-reindeer-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/quality-and-value-chocolate-reindeer-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality and value: chocolate reindeer anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-692\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Aldi ad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Aldi-ad-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"Aldi ad\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Aldi-ad-300x260.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Aldi-ad.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This festive advert from the discount chain Aldi (who interestingly vies regularly for top spot in the Which? &#8216;retailer of the year&#8217; against \u00a0John Lewis and is rated a top 5 place for new graduates by The Times) reminds us that the search for quality and value spans all sectors!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Successful companies are passionate about these two themes.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.institute.nhs.uk\/quality_and_value\/introduction\/quality_and_value.html\">NHS Institute <\/a>uses the same phrase\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the principal methods for achieving these potentially\u00a0competing goals is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/resources\/lean_thinking.shtml\"> \u2018Lean thinking\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This festive advert from the discount chain Aldi (who interestingly vies regularly for top spot in the Which? &#8216;retailer of the year&#8217; against \u00a0John Lewis and is rated a top 5 place for new graduates by The Times) reminds us that the search for quality and value spans all sectors!\u00a0 Successful companies are passionate about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[64,97,67,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}