Someone sent me an article that says that 'any public sector organisations developing digital services are guilty of reinventing the wheel missing important opportunities to reduce costs and speed up delivery'. Although it's about digital services what the author points out is applicable to organisational activity in general. As he says 'Almost all systems have some aspect of duplication that can be avoided. Without reuse, we all repeatedly reinvent the wheel, causing massive duplication and waste.'
By 're-use' he means identifying similar stuff that is done in many different ways or parts of the organisation when it could be done more efficiently and effectively in one way if only people would agree to do it in the one way and the organisation was designed to encourage and support this 're-use'.