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Waste and its detection - ITIL Tutorial
From the course: Learning Lean IT
Waste and its detection
- Lean IT is concerned with delivering as much value as possible for consumers and removing waste that often masks the value. Value to consumers is increased in two ways: First, by reducing the proportion of wasteful to value added activities, and then by increasing the amount of value related activities. The eight types of waste in Lean IT include the traditional TIMWOOD waste categories: transportation, inventory, motion, waiting time, overprocessing, overproduction and defects to rework, along with T for Talent. Transportation or conveyance waste is moving parts and products unnecessarily, such as when a processing step is performed in one location, and the subsequent processing step is performed in another location. When the second processing step could have been performed in the area immediately adjacent to the first processing location. Inventory waste is where you have more than the minimum stocks necessary for a precisely controlled pull system. Motion waste, that occurs when…
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