Tag Archives: Theory of Constraints

The Most Popular Guides to Goldratt’s The Goal

Posted on November 26, 2018 by

“Whenever people are not doing the obvious – it is my job to find the missing piece of the puzzle.  Something is missing.  What is it?” Continue reading →

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Goldratt’s The Goal: Chapter by Chapter Review

Posted on October 15, 2018 by

Written in 1984, The Goal lays out Eliyahu Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints (“ToC”) in the format of a novel.  ToC was first used into improve production plant manufacturing, but as Goldratt and his co-author Jeff Cox show in The Goal – … Continue reading →

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The Goal: Based on Teamwork & Data

Posted on October 8, 2018 by

Goldratt takes several approaches to showing how Constraints impact a plant and even personal lives. Several approaches are used to educate the reader; Jonah serves as a mentor to Alex Rogo, educating him on what is going on. Rogo adopts … Continue reading →

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The Goal – Chapter 40 – Culture and Constraints

Posted on October 5, 2018 by

Like Chapter 39, I find this final chapter unsatisfying. It must have been hard for Goldratt to bring the book to a close.  The character and plot arcs through the ‘fixing’ of Rogo’s plant are great – the chapters afterwards … Continue reading →

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The Goal – Chapter 39 – Planning

Posted on October 4, 2018 by

The plant is having hiccups.  Rogo is no longer the plant manager and has to help at a higher level.  This chapter lacks the ‘aha’ moments that have driven the cadence of the book until now. It seems our author, … Continue reading →

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The Goal – Chapter 37 – Constraint Rules

Posted on October 3, 2018 by

We pick up the team where we closed out Chapter 36.  A set of Steps has been laid out on how to handle new situations. Highlights 1. IDENTIFY the system’s constraint( s). 2. Decide how to EXPLOIT the system’s constraint( … Continue reading →

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The Goal – Chapter 36 – Five Steps to The Goal

Posted on October 3, 2018 by

Again the chapter opens in a meeting, but this time Rogo’s spider sense about the state of the plant foreshadows a re-evaluation of Jonah’s teachings. Highlight STEP 1. Identify the system’s bottlenecks. [Constraints!] STEP 2. Decide how to exploit the … Continue reading →

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