Value vs Non-Value | Lean Principles | Ryan Tierney

Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business — and life — one step at a time.

In this episode, Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses the powerful lean principle: "Value vs Non-Value!"

Along the way, he and Producer Matt talk about:

What a Japanese barber taught him about value Fine-tuning our “waste goggles” Why value is only being added when the product is changing Bob the lean painter Internal vs external customers How 90% of everything businesses do is waste And how to start cutting non-value from our lives

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Links:

Video of Donna cutting fabric in Seating Matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMJ0OPA0G8 Send a voice message/question into the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/LeanMadeSimple Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour

Welcome to Lean Made Simple: a podcast for people who want to change their business and their lives one step at a time. I’m Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters, a manufacturing company from Limavady, Northern Ireland. Eight years ago I came across this thing called lean and it transformed my life and now I want to share this message with as many people as possible.

• No. of episodes: 44
• Latest episode: 2025-06-23
• Business Management

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