suboptimization

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Meaning

1. noun The optimization of a subunit (or series of subunits) of an organization without good coordination with other subunits, resulting in the whole organisation's outcome or output being less than optimal.

Similar words

optimization suboperation micro-optimization premature optimization superoptimizer superoptimization undersegmentation pessimization subcomputation subspecification

Often followed by

of is in and problem problems can by for

Word family

sub-optimization sub-optimizations sub-optimize sub-optimized sub-optimizes sub-optimizing suboptimizations suboptimize suboptimized suboptimizes