![]() ![]() Take again the example of the business analysis. Instead, duplication of effort we see in real life is somewhere in between. In fact, our example goes from 0% of duplication of effort (manufacturing), to 100% of duplication of effort (business analysis). The difference between the manufacturing and the business analysis case may be stark, but in reality, things are generally more blurred. Not all Duplications of Effort are Created Equal ![]() So, in short, whenever you duplicate your effort or work without duplicating the outcome, you have a duplication of effort. In the end, you receive two presentations about the same thing – effort is duplicated, outcome is not. John, another of your reports, also anticipates the desire to expand to Europe, so he also embarks on a similar initiative. Sally, one of your reports is already working with her team to produce such analysis – they run some mathematical model, get some market information from Gartner, and put a lot of effort to create a wonderful PowerPoint presentation. As a director of the company – you would need a clear plan and some economic analysis to see if that is a good move. Turning to a different situation, imagine your company wants to expand its operations from the US to Europe. Hence, the amount of effort per unit of result stays the same – in this case 6 man/minutes per car. They do the same thing, so technically you have duplicated company’s efforts on headlights assembly, but you also have duplicated the outcome. Now you have two workers, each working on 10 cars in an hour for a total of 20 cars in an hour. If you have one worker, he will be able to assemble headlights on 10 cars in an hour. Imagine you have a manufacturing production line where workers assemble car parts, say the headlights. To clarify this, we can have two examples: manufacturing and business analysis. Note that it is only the effort that is duplicated, not the outcome. Intuitively, duplication of effort is doing the same effort twice (or more). We can think of effort as work in general, performing a task that requires your strength or concentration to get a result. What is Duplication of Effort?īefore we can answer this question, we should ask ourselves “what is effort?”. We should spend some time to explain what duplication of effort really is, and this post is about that. ![]() But what is duplication of effort, exactly? In short, it means doing things twice, but there are many gradients of this duplication. Project managers, business managers, MBAs are always concerned about it. Duplication of effort is one of the buzzwords you will hear in the corridors of many corporations. ![]()
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