suboptimize

suboptimize definition - business

suboptimize

To make the best of one part of the whole without making the best of the whole. For example, a plant manager moves her best employees to the production department and maximizes its efficiency, but the loss of good employees in the shipping department results in so many inefficiencies that the plant's overall output is less than optimal.

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