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SUMMARY (The 90 Day Schedule)How to win the War on Waste in 90 days? Having read the book, you can now ask me again: “How can I win the War on Waste in 90 Days?”First of all, you sign up with me.[1] Or do it on your own with a consulting phone support from me. Or you just do it and if you get in trouble, call me.It really is pretty easy to do.I also have training manuals that you can buy to follow the program.Calendar Action to be Accomplished.Day 1&n...

The 7 things listed below are items that you need to do to make the War on Waste work successfully.Begin the 6 Steps of the War on Waste! Of course, that is what this whole process is about. Start it up and stand back. This is really a fun process.Use the tools of the War on Waste. Tools of the War on Waste were explained throughout the book. Chapters 7, 8, and 9 describe a number of tools that we use extensively as we deliver the War on Waste. Check in often with each ...

8. Strategy This is not a chapter to compete with other treatises on strategy. There are a number of great tomes on the subject. This chapter is merely to place it in context within the War on Waste. The War on Waste led to the idea that strategy became aligned with process in the program. We referenced Michael Porter,[1] who is the pre-eminent strategy scholar in the United States. But this observation is not Porter’s. It is ours. &n...

9. The TKC The War on Waste creates the ideas and a process to get ideas into play. But it still requires a formal process to get new ideas into the system. Once the War on Waste is completed, the company still wants new ideas to continue. When the War on Waste is over, the implemented ideas need to be tracked. That is achieved with the Tribal Knowledge Council, the subject of this chapter.The TKC is the control point for the input of all ideas. Its pu...

10. FAQs Have you ever done a company like ours?This is one of the most interesting questions that I get asked. The answer is pretty easy. Probably not or if I did one like yours, it still wasn’t yours. And that doesn’t matter a bit.The War on Waste is about fixing a company’s processes. It doesn’t make any difference what business you are in, the first question that we ask in the program is, “What do you do here to make money?”That is what determines waste ...

6. Value-adding There are a number of ways to define this term. We define it simply as “what customers are willing to pay for.” In any business, everyone needs to understand why the business exists and how it makes money. As we do the War on Waste, we ask a very simple question, “What does this company do to add value?” The answer to this simple question serves as the basis for the War on Waste.So the question “what is waste” is intimately tied to the compan...