The types of waste (8): Misuse of employees

Originally, there are seven types of waste in Lean Thinking. Declaring the wrong use of employees as an additional type of waste definitely makes sense, because valuable resources are also lost here. This type of waste occurs when highly qualified employees, specialists …

Lean management in construction

Lean and humane construction – a contribution by Kathrin Saheb on the blog on cybernetic construction project management http://www.k-bpm.de/ …

Lean Administration Applied: The Recruitment Process (Part 2)

What happens now? As I said, the joint recording of the actual lived process already provides for some ‘aha effects’: often here it is understood first of all what the colleagues are doing and what they actually need for their work. Now …

Why do you need the types of waste?

The question is asked again and again: what is the need for classification by type of waste? You can also discover where there is waste. That is of course correct in principle. But the categorization helps us – like so much in …