The tocleaders YahooGroup has had an interesting thread on a sticky problem in business: how can it be that a company with hard-working people ends up losing money?
All in theory of constraints
The tocleaders YahooGroup has had an interesting thread on a sticky problem in business: how can it be that a company with hard-working people ends up losing money?
Jason has an interesting piece on "How the lack of constraints killed the quality of Star Wars." He says, "Constraints drive innovation and forces focus. They are to be embraced, not removed."
I've decided to make the plunge and take Goldratt School's TOC Supply Chain Expert training course in preparation for participating on a viable vision project as an Application Expert. The course started today.
Gil Friend quoted himself from a recent speech, "Change is made more difficult by deep and pervasive errors in thinking..." This mimics what Goldratt has been saying for over 20 years.
Typical CCPM Project Management Implementation. I'm mostly linking this because it is a nice example of retrospectively walking through a CCPM implementation, complete with fever charts.
The TOC YahooGroup has been talking about Deming's Funnel, and a smart person finally asked what it was. A quick google nets a wide variety of explanations. Tampering and effects diagnosis from the QualityAmerica knowledge center was a useful verbal description. And Yonatan Reshef at the U of Alberta has a...
Jeff Angus talks about situations where a deal seems too good to be true in The Mets: Keep Your Eye Off The Prize I had a client that had been shopping for a computer system to manage her "traffic" for a long time. The analysis we did said the systems available...