The Seven Deadly Wastes

How to Remove Muda from Your Business in the Digital Age

De: Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

From a Lean Classic to a 2026 Digital Execution Guide

In 2014, The Seven Deadly Wastes and How to Remove Them from Your Business introduced thousands of readers to MUDA and the foundations of Lean thinking with a focus on classical manufacturing and factory-floor efficiency.

More than a decade later, the business world has changed completely.

Remote work, digital platforms, artificial intelligence, fragile global supply chains, service-dominated economies, and post-COVID instability have created new forms of waste that traditional Lean models were never designed to detect.

The Seven Deadly Wastes – Digital Edition (2026) is not a simple revision.
It is a full digital transformation of the original work, redesigned for today’s operational reality.

This edition redefines MUDA for the modern organization—where waste now hides inside:
decisions, digital systems, data, bureaucracy, burnout, and AI-driven processes.

What’s New in This Digital Edition

• Digital MUDA & Remote Operations – How waste flows through platforms, dashboards, emails, and virtual teams.

• Lean + Artificial Intelligence – When AI removes waste—and when it dangerously multiplies it.

• Post-COVID Supply Chain & Risk-Based Lean – From pure Just-in-Time to resilient operations.

• Modern Industry Applications – Automotive, Government, Education, Healthcare, Banking, Project Management, HR, Finance, Urban Security, Publishing, and Daily Life.

• Practical Financial Formulas – Decision delay cost, digital inventory cost, burnout loss, bureaucratic waste, AI risk, and supply chain disruption exposure.

• 90-Day Lean Execution Playbook – A step-by-step roadmap from diagnosis to measurable improvement.

Who This Book Is For

Written for:

• Junior & mid-level managers

• Operations & process improvement professionals

• Supply chain & logistics supervisors

• Digital transformation team members

• Lean practitioners & students

• Startup operations teams

• Public-sector and service supervisors

This is a real execution guide, not a theoretical textbook.

Why This Edition Matters

Most organizations do not fail because they lack strategy.
They fail because invisible waste silently drains speed, cash, energy, and execution power.

This book explains:

• Why many Lean programs failed after 2010

• How digital systems created new categories of waste

• Why AI without Lean multiplies inefficiency

• How remote work reshaped waiting and burnout

• How to recover hidden value trapped in daily operations

From the Author

This Digital Edition reflects more than a decade of real-world consulting, teaching, and transformation experience across manufacturing, services, healthcare, education, government, finance, and technology organizations.

If the first edition taught you what waste is,
this Digital Edition shows you where it hides now—and how to eliminate it in real working environments.