What do we mean by eliminating waste? Waste is any activity that adds cost or time to a process, yet fails to add value to the customer or the business.

By identifying and eliminating waste, we will also increase our productivity. Productivity is about continuously improving what we do to make things simple and easy to use, and it involves streamlining processes, reducing errors, planning ahead and being efficient in all that we do.

This is not only a business principle, it’s a life principle too. Imagine if you didn’t waste one second of your life; that everything you did was productive and had purpose. Just think about what you could accomplish!

Being highly organised helps you to eliminate waste and be more productive. Take this very simple example:

Eliminating Time Wastage

Filing – Whether this be electronic or paper filing. Make the effort to file your important documents in a logical place as soon as something comes in and then next time you need to use it you will know exactly where it is! Office and procedure processes help with keeping this level of organisation, especially if you have employees.

It doesn’t take long in the first instance, and can save you a truck load of time and stress down the track.

Eliminate the waste. Time is the only thing we can’t recycle.