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 Performance Enhancement
 and
 Problem Solving
 based on the
 Theory of Constraints (TOC)

 What to Change
 Self - Assessment

 To What to Change to
 Operations Management
 Project Management
 Communication & Team Building
 Distribution
 Supplier Relations
 Marketing

 How to Make the
Change Happen
 The Path to
Focused Performance

 Who is FP?
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"Achieve More, Faster, with Less Wasted Effort"

Focused Performance is dedicated to enhancing the ability of individuals and organizations to achieve more of their goals by finding and unleashing hidden capabilities and wasted capacity in their current systems and by developing coherent strategies to grow those systems for the future.

 

Site Highlight

TOC Project
Management

Critical Chain Scheduling

Buffer Management

Multi-Project Management

   

Did you miss Dr. Eli Goldratt's 8-session live satellite broadcast on using TOC to achieve significant and sustainable organization-wide increases in performance?

(Click here for information on using the resulting similar thinking to develop a true enterprise-wide strategy.)



What's New on this Site?

December 1999
Consumption of Effort and Conservation of Energy for Project Success -- An essay on the necessity for managing protective capacity in multi-project environments to get the most organizational throughput from the efforts of project resources.
 
Previous Updates
The site has been redesigned, with easier navigation and improved crosslinks between pages, not to mention added and updated content:

A paper on TOC Multi-Project Management that was presented at the PMI's Philadelphia Symposium. . . Program Management - Turning Many Projects into Few Priorities with TOC.

Information on an exciting new program for developing true cross-functional alignment and performance offered by Focused Performance.

New entries in the posting archive on a variety of topics, including a detailed summary of the Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes and a piece on Speeding Up Change when introducing new production management processes.

 
 
Access to a pdf file of a paper based on a "best of show" poster presentation on Getting Out From Between Parkinson's Rock and Murphy's Hard Place . The poster presentation that this paper is based on was honored with a "best in show" award at a regional PMI symposium sponsored by the New Jersey Chapter of PMI
 
 
Special links between the page on Project Management and the archive of postings related to the topic, including a new "quick-and-dirty" intro to Critical Chain basics.

Added new site entry page featuring recent changes so that repeat visitors can easily jump to what is new.

 
 
It's all new! Initial launch of this site, including intro to Focused Performance as a resource for the application of the Theory of Constraints for performance enhancement and problem solving.
 
 
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Voice: 908-874-8664
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