All in theory of constraints
"Supply Chain Management at Warp Speed" is another book in the growing supply of Theory of Constraints books. For people the know the oeurve, this book is an extension and update to Schragenheim & Dettmer's Manufacturing at Warp Speed. TOC experts will find this informative, but I am not sure those outside this circle will.
Ever been annoyed that your local store always seems to be out of one of the ten items on your list? Me too. Amir Schragenheim has written a piece on Managing Distribution According to TOC Principles (pdf) in the latest TOC Update from Goldratt Marketing.
Rick Cook at CIO.com has a piece on How to Spot a Failing Project. I can't help but comment on the article after yesterday's post.
Business Week has an article that talks about A Struggle Between Efficiency And Creativity at 3M. It's a classic problem: tighten down operations and innovation gets squelched.
Art Murray's "Breaking free of the technology trap" in the June 2007 KMWorld talks about changing the mindset of implementing technology in business.
Luke Niasmith has a nice pair of images, one from Robinson, and another that reverses the positive effect. They depect 7 Steps to Behavior Change.
Eli Goldratt, founder of the concepts behind Theory of Constraints, has a couple articles out recently that cover what's happening with Viable Vision.
There are two types of buy-in, but Eli Goldratt totally forgot about one after writing It's Not Luck.
In TOC Application Expert training, we are talking about the goal of Viable Vision projects to achieve ongoing growth in companies.
Matt Homann dug up a 1997 article on Honda from CIO Magazine that has an interesting description of their collaborative environment. I couldn't help think of "what good looks like" as I read the excerpt.
Jeffrey Phillips has some interesting thoughts on what he calls The Ad hocracy in organizations that appear to prefer doing things without well-defined processes.
I read Bruce MacEwen fairly regularly for pieces like this one, "Do the Management Gurus Have Clothes?" I see a link to Theory of Constraints in his discussion.