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There is no definition of a “'''[[waste centre]]'''” in {{author|Peter Drucker}}’s universe, and if you Google it you are likely to land on an undertaking for recycling refrigerators and making landfill. This is because the [[JC]] made the term up, in honour of [[Taiichi Ohno]]’s [[Seven wastes|seven wastes]]. ''Any'' part of your organisation can be a waste centre; unless your organisation is run with a Toyota-like commitment to [[jidoka]] — “automation with a human touch” — every one will be: a place where unnecessary ''guff'' happens, out of a surfeit of [[pedantry]], caution, bad analysis, or opportunities to extract [[rent]]. Usually, though, the further away one is from measurable revenue generation one’s department is, the more wasteful it will be. It is easy to measure the value of a salesperson: generated revenues. But the value of an inhouse legal team? That’s a subject fit for its [[Value|own essay]].<br>