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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by ZephyrBlu on Saturday January 07, 2023 @10:41PM (#34295803)
Productivity at an org level is not intuitive. For example, the whole org working at 25% capacity on the same thing sounds terrible, but it could produce better results than everyone working at 90% capacity on different things. For ICs, the first scenario feels bad and wrong.
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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by btschaegg on Sunday January 08, 2023 @03:53AM (#34297313)
A reason for that might be lead time, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingman%27s_formula

Since c_a, c_s and tau are out of your control, focus on the left part (rho / (1-rho)):

25% vs 90% utilization: .25/.75 vs .9/.1 = 27x increase in lead time.

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