It’s Friday afternoon. Today is Jane’s birthday and the team organized a nice orange and poppy seed cake. You had a huge slice and a great cup of coffee. You feel ready to go home or rally the guys to have after-work drinks at your favorite pub.

Exactly in that moment, your boss arrives at your desk and cryptically says: “Vaccines cold chain. Marketing needs some technical information about it by Monday morning, we need to have some juicy facts in our website on how much waste happens worldwide due to a lack of proper refrigeration. Can you get something out of the net?”  After he leaves, you probably think “piece of cake, I’ll get something in the next couple of hours”. And so your net odyssey starts by googling: “vaccines” and “cold chain”.  You get 90,000 hits ranging from “safe vaccine handling” to “DNA vaccine delivery”, with some tantalizing titles in the first 1,000 items.This means sifting through hundreds and hundreds of sites, many of them from competitors selling their refrigeration solutions. This is not fun. Particularly in a Friday afternoon.

In addition to the obvious emotional toll of the task, there are also hidden costs:

1. Your time is probably valued at $80.00 per hour. It will probably take you half a day to get some meaningful information (if you find it). After you write your report, the company will spend about $600.00 on the entire mini-project.
2. You are much more efficient in creating brilliant engineering solutions that bring value to your company than attending information requests.
3. When you finally get some information, you realize that the information is from an unreliable source or the claims are exaggerated to promote certain products, or key information is not accessible to you because it has been published in a scientific journal and you need a subscription to access it.
4. The task will take you more than the working hours you have between now and Monday morning, meaning that you will have to spend some family time in Saturday or Sunday to finish.

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