Blog Post
Stop Focusing on Utilization. Start Focusing on Flow
November 6, 2024
Does it make sense to aim for 100% utilization across the organization? Is that efficient?
Whether it’s an ad agency, a factory, a product development organization, or any organization – it has a constraint.
The constraint/bottleneck should be optimized, but other areas of the process shouldn’t aim for 100% utilization since that would create waste and overload.