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The difference between an Obstacle and an UDE

20 January 2017, Jelena Fedurko In the Facebook discussion of my recent blog post If an Injection is a solution you knew BEFORE you built the Cloud, why did you need the Cloud? I wrote a phrase that clearly stated that there is a difference between an Obstacle and an UDE. The phrase read “… are obstacles […]

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Does TOC have the tools and mindset to understand the benefits to the customer?

07 August 2017, Jelena Fedurko-Cohen  In a recent discussion in TOC Practitioners Worldwide FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1014476831927643/ Richard Zultner made a statement: ”In ToC we do a great job of understanding the benefit of our production, distribution, and retail solutions to the BUSINESS (theirs and ours). But what we must also do for certain project types […]

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There is no ‘stupid rule’

01 September 2017, Jelena Fedurko-Cohen  The role and objective of a rule – any rule – is to restrict. A RULE prescribes the RIGHT way – in order to restrict one from taking wrong ways. Restricting comes only from the need to prevent a potential negative outcome of doing things ANY OTHER way than the […]

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God bless CEOs for resisting what consultants would love them to do

07 October 2017, Jelena Fedurko-Cohen  This post reflects my thinking about the recent discussion on Linkedin and TOC Practitioners Worldwide about a suggested new type of constraint – “Human constraint”.  The new term was suggested by Angela Montgomery who published a post on TOC Learning and TOC4U titled: ‘The Human Constraint – What Is It?’ […]

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Opinion and knowledge

15 October 2017, Oded Cohen and Jelena Fedurko-Cohen  TOC is a knowledge based approach, not an opinion based one. The difference between the knowledge and an opinion is that the knowledge constitutes the established and tested sets of cause and effect connections that have hard proofs that appear in different sets of conditions, environments and […]

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What the Cloud is NOT for

Published by Jelena Fedurko-Cohen, 6 March 2018 There are several typical situations in which people wrongly perceive that they should use the Cloud. Confusing a regular assessment process with the dilemma AFTER the assessment, thus wanting to use the Inner Dilemma (Conflict) Cloud The Inner Dilemma (Conflict) Cloud is to be used NOT for the […]

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TOC and Risk Management for Projects

11 January 2018, Oded Cohen   In a recent post on TOC4U (8/1/2018) Rajeev Athavale wrote: “Risk Management” is a standard process covered by PMBOK. It is an excellent process and is highly useful. However, I am not able to connect this process with TOC. Risks may not arise out of constraints. They typically arise out […]