![]() ![]() Mura and muri are not wastes explicitly but they can be catalysts for further waste or future waste. You can think of muri as being one of the key causes of bottlenecks one process in a production system fails to reach the output of the others, resulting in provoking waste in the other processes as they are not able to reach their maximum or optimum output. Depending on your industry and the nature of the processes in place, this can prove catastrophic. Working something beyond capacity can lead to decline of output over time or even a sudden shutdown. It refers to working something beyond capacity whether that is equipment in a factory, or your labor force. Muda is not an entirely independent concept. Once you have identified and measured the waste then you can see the reasonable steps to take to combat it. We expand on this further and provide an actionable series of steps you can take to improve company processes in our template Ray Dalio’s Process Improvement Method. He promotes concepts like radical truth and radical transparency in order to encourage a company culture of critique and internal analysis. This point is reiterated in our post on how a hedge fund works where we discussed Bridgewater Associates’ founder and CEO Ray Dalio’s insistence that employees should take responsibility for their successes and failures. ![]() One of the core motivators of normalization of deviance is an unwillingness to be self-critical in the way you approach you business operations relying on techniques you’ve come to accept as normal within the company, whether or not they are beneficial for the company. These simple steps rely on awareness, discussion, and accountability as much as they rely on analysis or action.Īs we’ve covered before, normalization of deviance can seep into a company and eat away at its effectiveness and output. The primary steps he lists in tackling waste are: His position is that hidden wastes are not addressed, even in small ways, which allows them to grow and results in hidden wastes being larger than obvious ones.ĭomingo compares hidden wastes to an iceberg once you spot the tip you should know that there’s a greater body hidden under the surface. The two key forms of wastes are obvious wastes and hidden wastes.ĭomingo claims that hidden wastes are often the most dangerous wastes. Waste must be identified in order to be eliminated
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