Claims / C-DQZYPGEDXX
Conjecture
The bottleneck moves, and that is the whole opportunity. Part I's account of the 1800s shops: new machines were adopted piecemeal with no matching change in how work was organised, which caused the limiting factor on productivity to shift from the capacity of machines and workers to the management and procedures governing how workers dealt with their machines and each other. The constraint relocated from the physical to the organisational while everyone kept optimising the physical.
Evidence 1 passage
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the bottleneck preventing greater productivity, to shift from the capacity of machines and the workers to the management and procedures governing workers' interaction with their machines and each other. While workers operated based upon tradition and rules of thumb they did not operate by the same tradition. Each wor
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