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Processes which do ''not'' add value are inherently wasteful. The job is to eliminate waste, not cost ''[[per se]]''. To get rid of waste, you have to know exactly what waste is and where it exists.  
Processes which do ''not'' add value are inherently wasteful. The job is to eliminate waste, not cost ''[[per se]]''. To get rid of waste, you have to know exactly what waste is and where it exists.  


Doctor Ohno categorised [[seven wastes|seven types of waste]] and for each one, suggested reduction strategies.
Ohno-sensei categorised [[seven wastes|seven types of waste]] and for each one, suggested reduction strategies.


Even though he was talking about a phyiscal manufacturing line, Doctor Ohno’s categories of waste cross over pretty well to the contract [[negotiation]] process, a fact which seems to have escaped every [[management consultant]] who has ever ruminated on the issue. A lot of them have.  
Even though he was talking about a physical manufacturing line, Ohno-sensei’s categories of waste cross over pretty well to the contract [[negotiation]] process, a fact which seems to have escaped every [[management consultant]] who has ever ruminated on the issue. A lot of them have.  


Anyway, here, with feeling, are the seven wastes, as applied to contract [[negotiation]]:
Anyway, here, with feeling, are the seven wastes, as applied to contract [[negotiation]]: