How do You Measure Waiting Waste?
Waiting waste is one of the most prominent and important types of waste. Why? Because waiting reflects the scarcest resources of our lives: time. If we want to reduce spoilt time, we need to reduce...
View ArticleWhat is Inventory Waste?
We all possess things, some more, some less. The typical mindset today is that possession equals wealth. Having more things, having bigger things, having more expensive things, having cooler things is...
View ArticleHow to Reduce Waiting Waste (Exercise)
The first step to reduce waiting waste is to get a useful to-do list. Having an inventory of to-dos in your mind will never allow you to manage it properly. Exercise 14: Make a small list of to-dos,...
View ArticleBuffers. A Special Kind of Inventory Waste
A special kind of inventory are buffers, which you can also call temporary inventory. Dirty clothes are a good example for this type of inventory. You need to collect it, until you have enough to fill...
View ArticleHow is Inventory Waste Measured and Reduced?
How is inventory measured?Click To Tweet It is quite simple: number of items, space required for storage (count storage units, measure length or volume, calculate storage cost), cost of the items...
View ArticleHow to Reduce Task Switching (Motion Waste)
In an earlier post I discussed, that task switching is a kind of motion waste. You could look for the other methods to reduce this kind of waste, but I suggest to chose different approaches in this...
View ArticleHow to Master Your To-Dos (Exercise)
Exercise 19: Copy the to-do A6 from my last post verbatim and by hand to an index card or to an A6 piece of paper. Hang it onto your fridge door or above your desktop. Then apply the next step:…Read...
View ArticleHow to Manage Your To-Dos with 6 Folders (1/2)
There are a lot of approaches for managing your to-dos and your to-do list(s). Because to-do lists are inventory, you want to keep them easily manageable. Unfortunately, most ways of doing this you...
View ArticleHow To Manage Your To-Dos with 6 Folders (2/2)
The Lean Self 6 Folders approach is one way to use Kanban for managing your to-dos. How to apply the pull principle to your to-do list.Click To Tweet Here is the routine I suggest for pulling to-dos...
View Article20’000 users: Free Android App CardBoard Index Cards
I’m happy to announce that CardBoard Index Cards has been dowloaded by 20’000 users! What else? It has a solid 4 star rating on Google Play now from 169 user ratings. Check out CardBoard Index Cards on...
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