From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 10:24:25 MDT
On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 08:54 PM, spike66 wrote: Let us not stop
taking on tough problems just because we cannot solve them. spike
Spike,
In Industrial Engineering there is a technique for solving problems
called Work Design. One of the techniques used in Work Design is to always
design your ideal solution and in step function order drop down from there to
the solution you can afford to install economically, politically, etc.
I once saw a die casting company, I will call it Division A, that had
decided that it really needed a particular machine that cost roughly $300,000
and they couldn't even come close to raising that amount of money. However
they were one division in a conglomerate.
Another division of the same conglomerate, that had such a machine,
suddenly went broke. Because Division A was prepared to move fast they got
the machine for the cost of trucking it 200 miles.
I think that is one example of why your point is correct.
Ron h.
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