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.
Thursday, January 23, 2003
• Applying the Theory of Constraints Thinking Process to Medicine -- This online presentation is an excellent summary of the TOC Thinking Processes with examples from a medical environment. It includes a set of common medical conflicts (slide 29), a specific analysis of a medicine vs religion conflict (slides 30-45), bottleneck examples (slide 62), potential uses for the TOC replenishment/pull solution usually associated with Supply Chain Management (slide 67), patients as projects, practices as multi-project environments (slide 69), achieving buy-in of good medical advice for patient compliance (slide 71), and a comprehensive core problem and current reality tree for a hospital situation (slides 84-95). This is all interspersed with good introductory material about TOC, its applications, and its Thinking Processes, including a nice 2-slide comparison of TOC and traditional Decision Analysis (slides 101-102). As I've said elsewhere about TOC and Six Sigma...its an matter of logic versus data.
This presentation, by Stephen G. Pauker, MD, of Tufts-New England Medical Center, includes a great quote from Peter Drucker, that ties into some of the recentblog-based discussions on global/local perspectives and the need for holistic viewpoints in a variety of environments...
"What the worker needs is to see the plant as if he were a manager. Only thus can he see his part, from his part he can reach the whole" - Peter Drucker, The New Society (1950)
It's not only in industrial settings that TOC works. It's about the logical analysis, management, and improvement of any "complex" system.
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