TY  - CONF
TI  - The Two Great Wastes in Organizations
AU  - Macomber, Hal
AU  - Howell, Gregory
AD  - Principal, Lean Project Consulting, 36 Kirkland Drive, Andover, MA 01810. 978/470-8994. hmacomber@leanproject.com.
AD  - Managing Director. Lean Construction Institute, Box 1003, Ketchum, ID 83340. 208/726-9989. ghowell@leanconstruction.org.
ED  - Bertelsen, Sven
ED  - Formoso, Carlos T.
PY  - 2004
DA  - 2004/08/03
T2  - 12th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 12th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Helsingør, Denmark
AB  - The Toyota Production System is so successful that people look for ways to apply the lean production ideas and methods in organization settings. One of those ways is the force-fitting of Engineer Taiichi Ohno's seven wastes to organizations and projects. While organizations and projects manipulate materiel, they are better characterized by their actions of accomplishing something together - coordinating action, learning, and innovating. The seven wastes don't address those actions. Attempts to add to the seven wastes have to date broken the Ohno taxonomy. The authors propose a novel set of distinctions on the principal sources ofwaste in organizational settings.
KW  - Leadership
KW  - project management
KW  - and lean construction.
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/303/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/303
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -