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  • Amazon Talks About Kindles, Prime and "Muda" - Highlights from Amazon's conference call with analysts, in which execs shared (a few) more thoughts on the Kindle, Amazon Prime, video-on-demand and "muda," a Japanese word for "waste."

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • Amazon Talks About Kindles, Prime and "Muda" - Highlights from Amazon's conference call with analysts, in which execs shared (a few) more thoughts on the Kindle, Amazon Prime, video-on-demand and "muda," a Japanese word for "waste."

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • “No, Dad, the word is muda,” said Amy a bit testily.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • “No, Dad, the word is muda,” said Amy a bit testily.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • “No, Dad, the word is muda,” said Amy a bit testily.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • “No, Dad, the word is muda,” said Amy a bit testily.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • Amazon's entire system is aimed at avoiding what founder Jeff Bezos refers to as "muda"

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • The constant battle to kill waste ( "muda") produced the company's legendary frugality.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • The constant battle to kill waste ( "muda") produced the company's legendary frugality.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • Hi, this all might seem like "muda" (waste) to many of you who had commented that you liked the old design just fine … but here is the "new" Lean Blog, version 3.0, if you will.

    Lean Blog 2009

  • Muda is a Lean engineering catch-all term for non-value-added activities, namely waste.

    Making Time to Change, Part 1 | Amazon Web Services Blogs 2020

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