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.
Monday, July 14, 2003
TOC Making Inroads -- On the TOCExperts Yahoo Discussion Group, John Caspari (one of the key thinkers in the subject of Throughput Accounting, and whose website is apparently mucked up by the current ATT-Comcast transition) points to a Strategic Finance article (direct pdf download) regarding a joint IMA/Ernst and Young survey that mentions the Theory of Constraints as an approach to management followed by over 20% of respondents and among a list of approaches being considered by 40%.
If we're not careful, TOC is in danger of losing it's "cult status."
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