The Eight Wastes | Lean Principles | Ryan Tierney
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Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business — and life — one step at a time.
In this episode, Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses “The Eight Wastes of Lean.”
Along the way, he and Producer Matt talk about:
- Why waste isn't just the stuff that goes in the bin
- How overproduction is "the mother of all wastes"
- Getting called out by the former president of Lexus for having "muda”
- The trap of organising your waste to make it look lean
- Examples and stories that will help you see waste in your own organisation
- And the biggest waste of all that nobody ever thinks about
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