by Dr Lisa | Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes
I just completed my first Stompernet faculty office hour where I covered the Theory of Constraints Thinking Process tool called the Cloud or the Evaporating Cloud. The cloud is used to understand the root cause of undesirable effects and/or conflicts. While the cloud...
by Dr Lisa | Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes
TOC is a large body of knowledge. It’s very holistic. Underlying all of it, though, are a set of thinking processes. If you understand how to think, you can derive any number of the Theory of Constraints solutions. TOC Thinking is a process to recognize, verbalize,...
by Dr Lisa | POOGI Series, Theory of Constraints Measures
Managing People: What are we going to do about Joe? #2 We are continuing our series based on The Goal by Eliyahu M Goldratt and the Theory of Constraints. {This series was co-written with Brad Stillahn.} Dr. Lisa: “That’s true. In almost all of our client companies,...
by Dr Lisa | POOGI Series, Theory of Constraints for Strategy
What to Change to? As with any real constraint, your overall company only has one of them. For example, your company cannot be both internally and externally constrained at the same time (yes, we are aware that your company is different and more complex). A company...