Principlev1PR-1065
Configure all non-constraint processes to optimize…
Configure all non-constraint processes to optimize the constraint's throughput rather than their own local efficiency, because subordinating non-constraints to constraints increases system output while optimizing non-constraints does not.
Why This Is a Principle
Follows from The behavior of a system arises from its structure… (system structure) and Every system is perfectly designed to get the results… (systems produce their designed results). This is a prescriptive principle about how to configure system relationships. It's Goldratt's 'subordinate everything else' made general.