non-value-added

Too much hassle, too much non-value-added work, too much tax.

Sound Politics: "Sales tax bill could make your online purchases cost more" 2007

With overlap and duplication minimized and non-value-added work reduced, they can ramp up their investment in research and development, brand building, marketing and development of human capital.

Michael G. Winston: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish 2009

Like Occam's Razor, recessions whittle away unnecessary and non-value-added businesses and the capital, purchase order, and resource scarcity inherent in downturns forges companies of real substance and durability.

Downturn - Now What? Will Price 2008

The name, Materials Movers Inc., appropriately illustrates the importance of moving materials in and out of the stockroom, as opposed to emphasizing the non-value-added process of simply stocking materials.

Results FROM THE Heart Kiyoshi Suzaki 2002

While some traditional staff oversight systems will continue to be necessary to discourage fraud and waste, a large share of existing resources used in these functions could be shifted from non-value-added oversight to program and service delivery.

Npr Report Quality Leadership And Management Pt ITY National Archives 1994

While some traditional staff oversight systems will continue to be necessary to discourage fraud and waste, a large share of existing resources used in these functions could be shifted from non-value-added oversight to program and service delivery.

Npr Report On Quality Leadership And Management Part ITY National Archives 1994

Under the leadership of Jack Welch, General Electric identified the problem of non-value-added activities and started to deal with bureaucracy more than a decade ago.

VISION, VALUES, AND COURAGE Neil H. Snyder 1994

Under the leadership of Jack Welch, General Electric identified the problem of non-value-added activities and started to deal with bureaucracy more than a decade ago.

VISION, VALUES, AND COURAGE Neil H. Snyder 1994

It "flow charted" the cycle time, eliminated non-value-added steps (especially excessive reviews) and in five months increased productivity over 50 percent.

Npr Report Transforming Organizational Structures Pt ITY National Archives 1994

However, if a third, fourth, or even fifth project is added, the percentage of time spent on value-adding tasks drops rapidly, as an increasing fraction of valuable time is spent on non-value-added tasks—coordinating, remembering, or tracking down information, for example.2 In addition, the engineer becomes the bottleneck on all of the projects to which he or she is assigned.

Managing New Product and Process Development Kim B. Clark 1993