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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, September 28, 2004

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Critical Chain Project Management (Artech House Professional Development Library)

Practical Management Science (with CD-ROM Update) : Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications

Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed

Manufacturing at Warp Speed: Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance

Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Strategic Navigation: A Systems Approach to Business Strategy

Operations Management for MBAs, 2nd Edition

The Advanced Project Management Office: A Comprehensive Look at Function and Implementation

Thinking For a Change: Putting the TOC Thinking Processes to Use

Portfolio Management for New Products

Creating the Project Office : A Manager's Guide to Leading Organizational Change

Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors

The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management

Connecting the Dots: Aligning Projects with Objectives in Unpredictable Times

Building Project-Management Centers of Excellence (With CD-ROM)

Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play

Management Dilemmas: The Theory of Constraints Approach to Problem Identification and Solutions

Michael E. Porter on Competition

Great Boss Dead Boss

Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools, 2nd Edition

Influence (rev) : The Psychology of Persuasion

Lean Strategies for Product Development: Achieving Breakthrough Performance in Bringing Products to Market

Deming and Goldratt

Throughput Accounting

Slack : Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

Six Thinking Hats

Critical Chain

Teach Your Child How to Think

Developing Products in Half the Time (Industrial Engineering)

Turning Goals into Results: The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

What Is Strategy? (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

Strategy as Simple Rules (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy
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