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The Goal
By Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
North River Press
Description
The Goal is about New global principles of manufacturing. It's about people trying to understand what makes their world tick so that they can make it better. As they think logically and consistently about their problems they are able to determine 'cause and effect' relationships between their actions and the results. In the process they deduce some basic principles which they use to save their planet and make it successful.
Summary by AI
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Author's Background:
- Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an Israeli physicist and business consultant.
- He developed the Theory of Constraints (TOC), a management philosophy that focuses on identifying and eliminating constraints in a system.
Main Theme:
- The importance of focusing on the system's constraints to achieve maximum efficiency and profitability.
Key Points:
- Theory of Constraints: A system's performance is limited by its weakest link, or constraint.
- Five Focusing Steps:
- Identify the system's constraint.
- Decide how to exploit the constraint.
- Subordinate everything else to the above decision.
- Elevate the system's constraint.
- If in the previous steps a constraint has been broken, go back to step 1.
- Throughput: The rate at which the system generates money through sales.
- Inventory: The amount of money tied up in materials and finished goods.
- Operating Expense: The cost of running the system.
Reputation:
- Positive:
- Widely recognized as a groundbreaking work in operations management.
- Has been translated into over 30 languages.
- Used by many organizations to improve their performance.
- Negative:
- Some critics argue that the TOC is too simplistic and does not account for all factors in a complex system.
Who Should Read It:
- Business leaders and managers
- Operations professionals
- Anyone interested in improving efficiency and profitability
Readers
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