Many of these examples focus on the wrong kind of efficiency.
There's efficiency from the production perspective -- how large a fraction of time are my resources busy adding value?
Then there's efficiency from a consumption perspective -- how large a fraction of time am I receiving value?
The first kind of efficiency is inflexible, brittle, and associated with generated demand, clearly. What about the second kind? In my experience, properly optimising for consumption-side efficiency leads to more resilience, but I'm willing to be wrong here.
There's efficiency from the production perspective -- how large a fraction of time are my resources busy adding value?
Then there's efficiency from a consumption perspective -- how large a fraction of time am I receiving value?
The first kind of efficiency is inflexible, brittle, and associated with generated demand, clearly. What about the second kind? In my experience, properly optimising for consumption-side efficiency leads to more resilience, but I'm willing to be wrong here.