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- noun The
optimization of asubunit (or series of subunits) of an organization
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Examples
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We need to aim for total optimization—not suboptimization done at the mini-company level.
Results FROM THE Heart Kiyoshi Suzaki 2002
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This can produce coordination problems if a peer is disliked, discrimination and suboptimization if a subordinate is disliked, and subtle insubordination if a boss is disliked.
Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001
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This can produce coordination problems if a peer is disliked, discrimination and suboptimization if a subordinate is disliked, and subtle insubordination if a boss is disliked.
Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001
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This can produce coordination problems if a peer is disliked, discrimination and suboptimization if a subordinate is disliked, and subtle insubordination if a boss is disliked.
Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001
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Personal improvement efforts may pose a danger of “suboptimization.”
QUALITY IS PERSONAL Harry V. Roberts 1993
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Personal improvement efforts may pose a danger of “suboptimization.”
QUALITY IS PERSONAL Harry V. Roberts 1993
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Personal improvement efforts may pose a danger of “suboptimization.”
QUALITY IS PERSONAL Harry V. Roberts 1993
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This assumption means that every action, practice, and technique is discrete and repeatable; every activity in the process is visible and subject to suboptimization.
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This assumption means that every action, practice, and technique is discrete and repeatable; every activity in the process is visible and subject to suboptimization.
The IT Skeptic - Comments Johnna 2010
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This paradox can be formulated more explicitly through the principle of suboptimization: optimizing the outcome for a subsystem will generally not optimize the outcome for the system as a whole.
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