Conceptbottleneck shift
Bottleneck Shift
A phenomenon originating in the Theory of Constraints whereby accelerating a non-bottleneck part of a system shifts pressure to other parts while overall throughput does not increase.
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Oct 17
Bottleneck shift originates from the theory of constraints: locally speeding up a non-bottleneck stage does not increase system output; it only causes work in progress to pile up in front of the bottleneck.
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