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Friday, June 11, 2004
A Guide to Implementing the Theory of Constraints (TOC) -- First New Zealand gives us The Lord of the Rings, now it gives us the single best overview of the Theory of Constraints to be found on the web! (Do you get the impression that I'm impressed?) Kiwi Dr. Kelvin Youngman offers what he describes as...
"...most of all, a personalized view of Theory of Constraints. The intent is to make much of the available theory and practice more readily accessible and to present it within the broader context of parts of the general management literature and also personal experience at the coal face (or should that be the brick wall)."
This is a dense but well organized site that covers the bulk of the TOC body of knowledge. I would match it up against many overview books out there as well.
While it emphasizes the manufacturing and supply chain management applications, it also does an excellent job of discussing constraint-based strategy and the Thinking Processes. For some reason, it surprisingly doesn't go into are the applications for project management (Critical Chain and Multi-Project Management). But then of course, if you're reading this, you know where to go for those topics.
(Yet another tip o' the hat to Clarke Ching for pointing me to Dr. Youngman's site.)
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