silk and spinach

In case you missed them, or can’t find stuff in the archives, here’s a recap on the posts I’ve written about waste in large organisations…

the muda of walking about

Co-location, co-location, co-location

your eyes are too high, sir

A salutary tale of bureaucracy without lean thinking

more on multi-tasking

Multi-tasking delays everyone

local optimisation

In which cost accounting at the department level leads to false positives in the search for productivity improvements

the taxi business

When per-project cost accounting dominates, the first project that needs an infrastructure feature pays for it; everyone else then gets a free ride. Local optimisation prevents progress

tidy gemba

House-keeping is never a waste of time

i only want a pencil

In a dysfunctional organisation, even pencils can be exorbitantly expensive