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Underutilized Skills and Talents

3/24/2017

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Underutilized Skills and Talents
  The 8'th form of waste is the underutilization of skills and talents in both people and machines.

  Discussion Opportunities:
  1. In what ways have you experienced the waste of underutilized skills and talents?  
  2. How would you go about removing this type of waste?
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8 Wastes

10/28/2016

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  The 8 forms of waste are also referred to as the 8 forms of muda.  A Lean strategy attempts to remove any and all forms of waste from business processes.

The 8 forms of waste are:
  1. Transportation
  2. Inventory
  3. Motion
  4. Waiting
  5. Overprocessing
  6. Overproduction
  7. Defects
  8. Skills
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