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Local optimum vs. global optimum and the theory of constraints: why your productivity gains sometimes serve no purpose

Eliyahu Goldratt, although trained as a physicist, had a profound impact on industrial management with books such as The Goal (1984) and The Haystack Syndrome (1990). His contribution is based on the idea that the performance of a system is always limited by its bottleneck. No matter what gains are made elsewhere, this bottleneck alone determines the performance of the system. At this point, you're probably wondering what the "old" world of factories is doing on a blog that talks a lot about tech and knowledge workers, but it's precisely because, as an article in...

Local optimum vs. global optimum and the theory of constraints: why your productivity gains sometimes serve no purpose

Eliyahu Goldratt, although trained as a physicist, had a profound impact on industrial management with books such as The Goal (1984) and The Haystack Syndrome (1990). His contribution...

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Efficiency, performance, constraints and things 2.0

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