The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a professor from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. The story of Alex's fight to save his plant is more than compulsive reading. It contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas, which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC), developed by Eli Goldratt.
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Hanging Fire
by Jeff Cox, Dale Houle, and Hugh Cole
Some 30 years ago, Dr. Eli Goldratt and Jeff Cox teamed to write a "business novel" entitled The Goal. Now with Hanging Fire, Jeff Cox has once again teamed with the Goldratt Institute to show how the Theory of Constraints (TOC) has evolved and advanced over time. Above all, and similar to The Goal, this book is focused on achieving business success in a world of uncertainty.
Hanging Fire postulates a project-based business with multiple projects underway at any given time. But the same underlying principles presented in this project business can be applied to any environment where the combination of dependencies, interdependencies and variability leads to less-than-desirable outcomes. The major theme in Hanging Fire is creating reliable speed to market - developing new products and services expeditiously, getting them to the market rapidly, and have them generating revenue as soon as possible.
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Critical Chain
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
This book shows powerful yet simple techniques to solve project management's toughest problems, using his Critical Chain Project management concept.
Written as a novel, this book not only teaches companies and individuals to drastically cut project development times resulting in early completion within budget and without compromising quality or specifications, but provides the framework to create a decisive competitive edge for organizations.
Project Managers and their teams will benefit from Goldratt's techniques of how to remain focused on the few critical areas and how to prevent their attention from being divided among all of the projects tasks and resources.
Especially useful for dealing with one of the most difficult and pressing management challenges: developing highly innovative new products.
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Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance
by Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland, and Jeff Cox
Millions of readers and listeners remember The Goal, the landmark business novel that sets forth the essential principles of Eliyahu Goldratt's innovative methods of production. Now, from AGI - Goldratt Institute and Jeff Cox, the same creative writer who co-authored The Goal, comes Velocity, the book that reveals how to achieve outstanding bottom line results by integrating the world's three most powerful continuous improvement disciplines: Lean, Six Sigma, and Goldratt's Theory of Constraints.
Dee Jacob and Suzan Bergland, two principals of AGI, show you how to apply their insights and methods to your organization in order to shorten lead times, slash inventories, reduce production variability, and increase sales. Writer Jeff Cox returns with the vivid, realistic style that made The Goal so entertaining yet so edifying. Thrust into the presidency of the subsidiary company where she has managed sales and marketing, Amy Cieolara is mandated by her corporate superiors to implement Lean Six Sigma (LSS) in order to appease a key customer. But as time goes on, and corporate pressure mounts, Amy arrives at the series of steps that form the core of the Velocity Approach.
Velocity offers keen insight into the human and organizational factors that so often derail growth while teaching you proven, practical techniques for restarting and revving up the internal engines of your company to reach new levels of success.
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