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Dentistry with a Vision: Building a Rewarding Practice and a Balanced Life by Gerald I. Kendall and Gary S. Wadhwa is a Theory of Constraints business novel, this time focused on dentistry practice. As with many of these books, putting the story into novel form allows the ideas to develop and a “guru” to provide guidance in a more visceral form than one might get from a textbook or workbook.
Taking a look at Will Kelly’s article on Do DevOps and the Theory of Constraints still relate with my perspective on the Theory of Constraints and the five focusing steps. I suspect there are some familiar mis-apprehensions of TOC embedded in the article. Happy to discuss!
An interesting video of a presentation from the Skype team on how they used the first of the Five Focusing Steps from Theory of Constraints to identify their constraint to delivering value.
I finished "Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less - and Achieve Than You Ever Imagined" by Scott Sonenshein a few weeks ago, and have had the ideas rolling around in my head since then. I really like the overall premise of the book: lean towards Stretching instead of Chasing. I found that it nicely connects to the ideas of Theory of Constraints and process improvement in general.
My review of Simplifying Innovation by Michael A Dalton, a business novel that shows how Constraints Management principles can be applied to new product development and other areas that require a lot of innovation.
Malcolm Ryder has a recent piece that looks at Change that provides some steps to consider on the way to creating change within the organization. As I read his article, I saw some parallels to the Theory of Constraints' five focusing steps.