Bottleneck Analysis
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Economics & Business Dictionary
Definition
A business management concept defining a repeatable method or artifact used to measure, decide, or improve performance. It specifies inputs, steps, and outputs that support consistent monitoring and decisions across recurring activities. It does not ensure improvement without correct implementation, data integrity, and follow-through on identified actions.
Bottleneck Analysis
Engineering & Applied Technologies Dictionary
Definition
The systematic process of identifying, quantifying and characterising the resource(s), operation(s) or constraint(s) within a workflow whose capacity or variability limits the overall system throughput or performance; it distinguishes between capacity, utilization, variability and policy constraints and identifies where interventions will change system output.