TOC Holistic Strategy Development
Introduction
TOC Holistic Strategy Development is for those individuals and organizations who have recognized the need to improve the way they develop corporate, business, and functional strategies and are ready to shift from the Cost World to the Throughput World.
If:
- The significant majority of management’s time is spent dealing with today’s problems rather than planning for the future.
- There is much evidence that planning is done in a vacuum.
- Our strategies often end up being nothing but pipe-dreams.
- We miss opportunities for new product development/ modifications in current markets.
- There are inherent conflicts between different elements of a plan.
- We experience chronic over-capacity or under-capacity.
- Many improvement programs are really aimed at fixing problems.
- Many of our plans are not effectively implemented.
- We excel in all our measures, yet the company is still failing.
- There is a high failure rate in entering new products in new markets.
- We cannot take advantage of future opportunities.
- In spite of substantial investment in planning and preparation, we’re not prepared for change.
then you may want to find out more about the TOC Holistic Strategy Development
Approach.
In the Throughput World, management efforts are directed toward the "weakest link" (the constraint), therefore improving the overall performance/strength of the "chain" (organization).
Objective
- Present a systematic process that enables an organization to very quickly align all of its strategies to establish a reliable operating platform and decisive competitive advantage in its chosen marketplaces.
- Illustrate the processes used to build ownership and consensus while rolling strategy out throughout an organization.
- Introduce you to a process for systematically creating aligned, integrated and implementable strategies – from Corporate to Functional - that enable an organization to move at an ever-increasing rate towards its goal, vision, and mission.
Description
Through the use of the TOC Thinking Processes, open discussion, interactive computer-simulations and interactive exercises, participants gain an in-depth understanding of the subject matter.
The in-depth understanding of the subject matter is achieved through taking the participants through
six steps.
- Consensus on the core problem.
- Existing problems are analyzed and the core problem is identified
- Painting a direction for a generic solution
- The basic direction of a solution is examined
- Agreement that the solution overcomes the core problem
- Major issues related to the solution are addressed
- Elimination of any potential negative side effects introduced by the solution
- Developing of a generic solution
- Discussion on how to implement the generic solution into participants specific environment.
- How to implement this solution and how to overcome "resistance to change" are discussed as well.
Through extensive and interactive discussions, participants discover:
- The real factors that inhibit effective strategy development;
- The common causes of these real factors;
- A simple, logical, generic solution to corporate, business, marketing and functional strategy development;
- How to customize the generic solution to a specific environment;
- How to overcome obstacles blocking implementation.
The workshop focuses on:
- Defining criteria that should be used to evaluate strategies.
- Answering the question “How are we doing?”
- Deriving the core conflict of the strategy and an injection that points in the direction of a solution.
- Turning the direction into a solution.
- Creating a Reliable Operating Platform
- Constructing a Business Management Strategy
- Constructing a Market Strategy (URO)
- Constructing a Functional Strategy
- Ongoing Strategic Planning
- A foundation for constructing Corporate Strategy
