A consultant applied the 80/20 principle twice to a client's bottleneck and achieved a 96% improvement, a 25-fold speed increase. The first pass fixed the biggest constraint. The second pass tackled the next one. Stacking these focused efforts compounded the gains.
Do more 80/20s. I remember I did this piece of work for one of my businesses like over a decade ago in which they had a performance problem. So we 80/20 the performance problem and they got a big benefit. And then we did the 80/20 again and they got an even bigger benefit because they got actually a 96% performance benefit out of all this because we just did 20% of the effort twice. So instead of, hey, how can we make everything in the system go faster? We just asked, what's the bottleneck? And then we asked, what was the second bottleneck? And when we did those two things, we created such an extraordinary improvement in value, you know, 25x speed, that the client was like, okay, that seems fine now. Even though there was opportunity for us to do more, the fact that we got that first 80 points off the board and the next 16 points off the board, everything was fast enough that, okay, let's go work on a different problem. When you take 80/20s and when you sequence 80/20 initiatives, you have an opportunity to create extraordinary value extraordinarily fast.
