CHAPTER 12

Input Capacity

When John Wiley & Sons ask me to write Essentials of Capacity Management, my first thought was, “Who would want to read a book about capacity?” I had written Explicit Cost Dynamics to create a mathematical and philosophical basis for cash flow models and other concepts I subsequently developed and am sharing with you in this book. Explicit Cost Dynamics had, what I perceived to be, a hole in my explanation of the mathematical model. I compare this hole to dark matter with physics. For a long time, physicists said it was there, that the math supported it, but they struggled proving it. The math told me there was something there. I hadn’t defined it clearly, but the math was very clear and suggesting it was there. In the ...

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