The decision could easily harm the company because maybe the person covers for a lot of employees and firing them now has the owner lose someone important. Maybe firing them was bad cuz now there’s less manpower in the company. Less manpower can make things harder for everybody.
I’m guessing that if you think about what’s already good enough in the company, then you can find that firing the person changes those local optima into something else.
Imma think of local optima that could be changed that harms the company:
- what could be good enough is people covering others for their break
- how much manpower there is per work station
- enough of an item being produced by that person
It’s kind of hard to think of local optima.
Post-Mortem about why it’s hard to think of local optima
Why is it hard to think of local optima examples on the fly?
cuz im not thinking about things that could be good enough or things that are made in numbers
Why am I not thinking of things that could be good enough?
Cuz I don’t know what part of the company’s system there could be. Like, I didn’t list them all out
There for sure is a benefit when improving local optima. It just doesn’t increase throughput i think.
I’ve seen the phrase ‘take the big picture into account’ and that was always kind of hard to visualize or think of correctly. Like, ‘I ask myself is this a big picture thing or a small picture thing?’ I wonder if big picture is related to the goal. Say a company has one machine produce material for the next two machines to mess with and create widgets. The small picture things could be the rate of the individual machines making material and producing widgets. And maybe the big picture stuff is how many widgets are sent out of the factory in total?
I think I should look up what big picture and small picture mean. I thought I could use logic to find the meaning.
If the global optima is the success of the company, then more money for each sale doesn’t necessarily mean the global optima is being achieved.
What is the success of the company? I think that may mean the company is making a profit or isn’t losing employees at a bad rate or isn’t making health violations.
The benefit that’s clear is more money per sale. Numbers are going up for the company. But for how long?
When you’re thinking of good ideas overall, it means to think of the big picture. I’m guessing that means look at the global optima or maybe the overall goal.
The reason why the clear benefit could be or could not be good is because, if you didn’t think of the downsides and are not seeing that many bad ones, then it’s fine. Why tho leave it up to there maybe being downsides or not?
It’s poor thinking cuz all those four actions can be helped. Doing those four at the same time I think is saying, respectively, ‘idk what the local optima are here,’ ‘idk what a good overall idea for the company is,’ ‘idk what the downsides are or how bad they could be if I do,’ and ‘idk what the goal of my company is or idk what the goal of company has to do with improving stuff.’
Ok, I did not see that. Not until ET said it. In the sentence before the above quote, ET talked about changing to a different algorithm and it now taking 10 seconds for the program to run. I didn’t pick up on those clues to lead me to conclude the quote above. That’s before reading the quote. I had to read the stuff before the quote again to make sure that optimizing the details of the old algorithm was a waste of time. That’s if the goal is to make to make the software algorithm run a bunch of times
It being 15 minutes is already enough cuz why stress about it being 15 mins vs 10 seconds? Is the algorithm crashing or something?
Ok, I think I see why I didn’t read a conclusion like the second to last and last sentence. It’s because I wasn’t thinking, “what is the global optima,” or maybe, “what is the goal?” That stuff checks if something is a waste of time or not.
I’m thinking making more money and making customers happier could be global optima. It’s cuz when you improve local optima, you’re improving stuff that already has excess capacity. Worrying about making more money or making the customers happier seems to be needing improvement. I forgot if that means that those are global optima or the goal.
Post-mortem about identifying global optima or goals from the last sentence:
Why don’t I know if making more money or making customers happier are global optima or goals?
Cuz I haven’t read much about what the goal is in TOC.
Why?
Cuz i don’t remember the goal being explained very much?
Why don’t I remember?
Cuz I was focused more on the other stuff like local optima or factors that have excess capacity. I thought that stuff needed more attention to learn.
Why do I think those need more attention to learn?
Cuz if I don’t know what local optima are then I can’t even think about most factors of a system.
Ok, why not focus on other factors that need more attention?
Idk i thought I could get away with not learning those yet. Not until they came up.