Security News > 2020 > February > Friday Squid Blogging: 13-foot Giant Squid Caught off New Zealand Coast

The underlying reason when you think about it is when you make a system more and more efficient you constrain it's ability to react to change.

In essence "Slack in the system" sustains you over the "Change period", take out the slack and when change happens you fail.

Even in human terms of near eighty year life times two to three months is sudden change on a societal level.

Due to drives in "Efficiency" we now have not only a "LEAN" healtcare system we also have a "LEAN" food supply chain.

LEAN is based on an idea from Toyota in the 1950's which embodies Kan-Ban and JIT. The essence is to "Enhance what the customer wants and depreciate what the customer does not want" and thus to renove the "7 Wastes" from what many would call the "Process chain", "Value added chain", or "Supply Chain".

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