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.
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
POOGI -- As my time and energy are consumed by other endeavors, it's good to see some others picking up my slack in the realm of blogging about the Theory of Constraints. Clarke Ching has a good collection of links today that address the TOC POOGI -- Process Of On-Going Improvement, aka the Five Focusing Steps...
1. Identify the system's constraint.
2. Decide how to best exploit the constraint.
3. Subordinate everything else to the above strategy.
4. Elevate the constraint.
5. If, in a previous step, the constraint has been broken, go back to step 1. (Prevent inertia from becoming the system's constraint.)
It's that simple -- not necessarily easy, but simple.
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