The Slowest Step That Sets The Pace Of A Business
A Busy Workplace Can Still Finish Too Little: Every station is working, orders keep arriving, and employees rarely stop moving. Yet finished products leave slowly. Making everyone busier may only increase the piles waiting between tasks. A bottleneck is a step whose limited capacity restricts the output of a larger process. Finding it means looking beyond individual effort to see how work travels from beginning to end. Improving the limiting step can matter more than speeding up other activities.