Thursday, July 26, 2007

Optimizing subsystems does not help optimizing IT costs

Title: Optimizing subsystems does not help optimizing IT costs
Type: theory
Status: final
Version. 2007-07-26
Source: Chris Matts, Gilb Seminar, London, 2007

The IT world is misperforming when trying to optimize IT costs, because when one subsystem is optimized normally the performance of the surrounding systems decreases.
We have to optimize the whole.
At Toyota, they even optimized their suppliers (and customers?).

Same thing with single projects. Most of the time it is easier to solve a problem by means of thinking out side the box of this praticular project.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nobody knows of this one, because we have been highly optimized too often.