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Notes from the book The Goal by Eli Goldratt Check your numbers if you’d like, says Jonah. But if your inventories haven’t gone down.. and your employee expense was not reduced.. and if your company isn’t selling more products - which obviously it can’t, if you’re not shipping more of them - then you can’t tell me these robots increased your plant’s productivity.

Just found a great cartoon demo which explains some of the basic principles of the Theory of Constraints.

Tweet Pin It The Theory of Constraints, or ‘constraints management’ focuses efforts on finding and exploiting the true leverage points of a system for maximum effectiveness. TOC Basics At its heart, the Theory of Constraints (TOC) searches for the fundamental constraints of a system… its root causes… A system’s constraint is nothing more than what we feel to be expressed by these words: anything that limits a system from achieving higher performance versus its goal. (Goldratt 1988, p. 453, 1990, p. 4) In this way, TOC allows us to target critical leverage points, or bottlenecks, within the system at hand. See Theory of Constraints simulation cartoon. Understand the TOC theory...

From the book Viable Vision explain Eli Goldratt's view on developing the Mafia Offer... What problems do the clients in our markets have that no one in the industry is addressing? This question is the core of market research. When a marketing person can access senior customer management and learn about the business through this approach, the resulting analysis often leads to a huge competitive advantage.

Notes from the book It's Not Obvious, by Eli Goldratt Sales vs surplus was a dilemma that only a crystal ball could solve. Purchasing. Inventory Turns. Stock aggregation. Replenishment.

The best kept secret breakthrough in marketing and business strategy is... (drum roll) TOC Marketing. Or in full: Theory of Constraints Marketing. Listen. If business growth is important to you, this may be your greatest discovery for 2010. Let me expla