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Yep that's a great example. For other businesses: Pharmacy - adding 1% more of a chemical compound to a pill could be lethal, but not otherwise detected for 3-
by SamuelAdams 6y ago
Yep that's a great example. For other businesses:
Pharmacy - adding 1% more of a chemical compound to a pill could be lethal, but not otherwise detected for 3-12 months (pills sit on shelves for a long time). Figuring out why that happened will be very difficult.
Manufacturing - molding plastic parts requires very specific mixes of chemicals. Too much of one and it becomes brittle under certain temperatures, too little and it warps down under the warranty period. So if you manufacture the mold of a baby car seat, and you add or subtract 1% of a chemical, that car seat could break / shatter when it's involved in a collision. Terribly large lawsuits would occur because some C-level someone adopted a process to save headcount and reduce oversight.
Business processes are a lot like software - the first 80% takes 20% of the time and the remaining 20% takes 80% of the time.