Simon Copsey

Apr 12, 2024 • WeAreDevelopers LIVE

Technology is Necessary, But Not Sufficient

Stop trying to maximize staff utilization. It’s the bottleneck killing your team’s performance and your company's bottom line.

#1about 3 minutes

Defining the primary goal of a business for sustainable growth

Prioritizing revenue growth over cost reduction provides a clear focus for improvement and offers unlimited potential for the business.

#2about 7 minutes

Identifying the bottleneck that limits organizational output

The rate of revenue generation for the entire organization is dictated by the capacity of its slowest part, the bottleneck.

#3about 5 minutes

Finding the root causes of organizational obstacles

Many obstacles within an organization stem from a few common underlying causes that are often outside a team's direct control.

#4about 9 minutes

Mapping systemic problems with cause-and-effect diagrams

A Current Reality Tree can visualize how surface-level problems are interconnected and trace them back to a single underlying cause.

#5about 3 minutes

How self-imposed constraints block creative problem-solving

The nine-dots puzzle illustrates that breakthrough solutions often require identifying and challenging the assumptions we place on ourselves.

#6about 6 minutes

Challenging the myth of maximizing staff utilization

The belief that 100% staff utilization maximizes output is a fallacy that creates bottlenecks; instead, planning for slack increases throughput.

#7about 3 minutes

Technology must be paired with social change to be effective

Lasting improvement comes from using technology to address a system's bottleneck, which requires re-evaluating the managerial assumptions that created it.

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Defining the primary goal of a business for sustainable growth

Identifying the bottleneck that limits organizational output

Finding the root causes of organizational obstacles

Mapping systemic problems with cause-and-effect diagrams

How self-imposed constraints block creative problem-solving

Challenging the myth of maximizing staff utilization

Technology must be paired with social change to be effective

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