{"id":29,"date":"2012-01-21T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/importantindicators.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2015-01-24T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T16:26:55","slug":"important-indicator-3-fast-good-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Important Indicator #3: Fast-Good-Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?--><\/p>\n<div><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Introduction:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We&#8217;ve all come across it more than once\u2026 That project where the client wants something yesterday, that is better than anything before, and is cheaper than anything out there\u2026 That&#8217;s the Fast-Good-Cheap paradigm.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><strong>Description of the Indicator:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>This is less of an indicator and more of a framing of situation. \u00a0However you can use this to drive towards a project end. \u00a0Fast-Good but not cheap (Apple); Fast-Cheap but not good (McDonalds); Good-Cheap but not fast (Make your own \u2026).<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/importantindicators.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ImportantIndicators_2012001_A.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-30\" title=\"ImportantIndicators_2012001_A\" src=\"http:\/\/importantindicators.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ImportantIndicators_2012001_A-300x298.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ImportantIndicators_2012001_A-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ImportantIndicators_2012001_A-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ImportantIndicators_2012001_A.png 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How to read it:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>There is no real way to read it (given that it&#8217;s a paradigm). \u00a0However you can easily use it to evaluate a project and see if there are any red flags.<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Notes:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Can you get Fast-Good-Cheap at the same time?<br \/>\nThere are few circumstances where you can get fast\/good\/cheap all at the same time. \u00a0What are examples???<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/importantindicators.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ImportantIndicators_2012001_B.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31\" title=\"ImportantIndicators_2012001_B\" src=\"http:\/\/importantindicators.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ImportantIndicators_2012001_B-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ImportantIndicators_2012001_B-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ImportantIndicators_2012001_B-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ImportantIndicators_2012001_B.png 879w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>In addition, there is a twist, and that this indicator can be used not just to describe a project, but also to market a product. \u00a0For example, a new product could not necessarily be faster or cheaper, but so much better (&#8220;Good&#8221;) than any other products other, that having that one dimension becomes the marketing focus for the product. \u00a0(O course having two is even better).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Usage:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>I understand you need this fast good &amp; cheap, but we can only provide 2 of the 3 options.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: We&#8217;ve all come across it more than once\u2026 That project where the client wants something yesterday, that is better than anything before, and is cheaper than anything out there\u2026 That&#8217;s the Fast-Good-Cheap paradigm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[12,15,14,13],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-indicators","tag-fast-good-cheap","tag-paradigm","tag-project","tag-project-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yPnG-t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/importantindicators.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}