Introduction to Waste
I make no secret of my admiration for Taiichi Ohno (see What Do Toyota Manufacturing and Taiichi Ohno Have to Do With E-Filing and Integrated Justice Systems?) and I am constantly using his concepts...
View ArticleTIM WOOD: T is for Transportation
Note: This blog is the first in a series on the “Seven Wastes of Muda”. A favorite exercise to test your memory is to recite the names of Snow White’s Seven Dwarves: You know, Dopey, Grumpy, Doc, …...
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Note: This blog is the third in a series on the “Seven Wastes of Muda”. In the previous post, The Costco Conundrum – Supply Inventory, we considered the impact of front-end inventory (things waiting...
View Article“You Can Sit Here in the Waiting Room; or You Can Wait in the Sitting Room.”
From Nick Danger, Third Eye, by Firesign Theater Note: This blog – the fifth installment in a series on the “Seven Wastes of Muda” as they relate to court document management – deals with the “W” in...
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