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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
From Logistics to Body-Building -- Constraint thinking in action in an unusual application...
I'm in the logistics business and one thing I have become very familiar with is Theory of Constraints. It's a business idea of:
First - identify your goal.
Second - identify your constraints, or bottlenecks in your processes.
Third - elevate your bottleneck's importance and make it a priority to eliminate them.
Fourth - once the constraint has been eliminated, search for your next constraint and start over.
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