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Efficient systems are brittle systems. You wring all the slack out of it and any shock is going to cause failure. In this case, the slack is the nurses and ot
by rjbwork 5y ago
Efficient systems are brittle systems. You wring all the slack out of it and any shock is going to cause failure. In this case, the slack is the nurses and other healthcare workers' mental health and burnout limits and pay and culture etc. etc. The slack is being pulled to lower costs and increase insurance/hospital profits.
It's unsurprising that what has happened in the past couple of years is putting stress on a system with the slack pulled out of it.
- TrispusAttucks 5y agoYou're spot on. This pattern is emerging across many structures. Efficiency is inverse correlated with resiliency. JIT systems have spread over the globe but they don't handle shocks in the pipeline very well.
- etchalon 5y ago"Efficiency is inverse correlated with resiliency.". Well, I'm jotting that down in a notebook.
- TrispusAttucks 5y agoYou may enjoy the paper "Examining the balance between efficiency and resilience in closed-loop supply chains" [1] from August 2021. EDIT: Also interesting relationship with sustainability [2]. [1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10100-021-00766-1 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10100-021-00766-1 [2] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sustainability-curve-mapped-between-the-two-polarities-of-efficiency-and-resilience-In_fig8_271506661 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sustainability-curve-map...