This Focused Performance Weblog is a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective. TOC is noted for its applications in Project Management and Multi-Project Management (Critical Chain) and Operations Management (Drum-Buffer-Rope), as well as in Marketing, Strategic Planning and Change Management (TOC Thinking Processes). If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here.
"It's from the same root as errant, which means embarked on a searching journey. Five hundred years ago, the two meanings were closer together. A person in error was a person searching for the truth...
"Today we begin to see that's the core of the creative process. Engineering design teams are learning to make errors rapidly and correct them. To create is to wander off the path, to be errant, to start in one place so we might, in the end, find another place we never dreamed was even there."
It seems to be an interesting path to perfection that goes through error. The search for error and its negative effects is also the start of problem solving with the CRT, as well as the fixing of proposals through NBRs.
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