Chasing Bottlenecks
Finding and removing bottlenecks is an optimization strategy as old as time. But optimization is not invention.
You need to decide what’s more valuable to you and your company:
Trick question: you can’t get the second without the first.
If your company and R&D team is spending all their time chasing bottlenecks, they’re optimizing for speed and scale. But so too are your competitors. That’s the easy stuff. Plenty of folks in the world who can do that.
But the folks that can create something from nothing? Rare.
Go find your diamonds in the rough, and give them a polishing cloth. Odds are your return profile goes up in spades.
—Sean