Video and pdf materials from the 23d International TOCPA Conference in Tennessee, USA
19 presentations on TOC knowledge and applications from ten countries.
Read the participants feedback on the conference.
Article on Viable Vision – Chapter 10 in Theory of Constraints in Practice
“When I do an analysis of a company, I am satisfied only when I clearly see how it is possible to bring the company to have, in less than four years, net profit equal to its current total sales.”
This very ambitious goal, verbalized by Dr. Eli Goldratt [1], is so outside the norm of most company achievements, that many excellent managers laugh when they hear this quote. Sadly, many managers believe that anything even close to this level of improvement is impossible to achieve, especially in a large company.
The 24th TOCPA Conference and Master Classes are conducted on 31 March – 1 April 2016, in Bogota, Colomboa, together with Piensalo Colombia.
Review and comments on the 23d International TOCPA Conference, 21-22 March 2016, Tennessee, US
We have just completed the 23d International TOCPA Conference in Tennessee, US.
We have started posting comments and photos. The conference material will be published within a few weeks.
Using Agile Techniques in Critical Chain Project Management – Chapter 9 in Theory of Constraints in Practice
There are no direct conflicts between Agile and Critical Chain and the two philosophies can be used quite comfortably with each other. Read an article by John Muncaster in Theory of Constraints in Practice.
A riddle on product development projects to think about!
A long-standing TOC colleague offered a riddle to solve:
Situation: A factory has many projects to do. Some are the industrialization of new products that they can be produced effectively.
Some are improvement projects for speed, capacity, quality, cost reduction, capacity expansions.
For the moment assume that the factory/company decides correctly which product development projects should be pursued (for instance with the 6 technology questions, AND improvement projects are also selected correctly with proper application of T, I, OE and proper focus on the organization’s constraint.
There is still a big difficulty … conflict!
23d International TOCPA Conference, 21-22 March 2016, Tennessee, US
The 23rd TOCPA Conference is conducted on 21-22 March 2016, Dollywood’s Dream More Resort, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, by TOCPA together with TOC International as a special event of get together of long-standing TOC colleagues and friends.
The registration is handled by Gerald Kendall of TOC International gerryikendall@cs.com
Over 15 presentations in two days will look into important issues of TOC knowledge, implementations and developments in the areas of:
- Project management
- Sales
- Supply chain
- Education
- Thinking processes
- Managerial decisions
The conference is conducted in a beautiful area of Smoky Mountains at Dollywood Dream More Resort In Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
Building Consensus with Stakeholders – a new chapter in the book Theory of Constraints in Practice
We have published a new article by Dr. Keita Asaine. This article highlights the issues of input availability in Japanese public-work projects, such as late delivery of purchased equipment/materials and missing instructions from customers. These problems cause delays in construction scheduling and increase budget costs which are considered to be the result of a lack of synchronization between procurement activities and process control. In an attempt to overcome a lack of synchronization, the Japanese government runs “One-day Response” initiatives to prevent work stoppages in construction projects.
The Five Focusing Steps, the Green Curve and the Red Curve – a post by Oded Cohen
Recently, we have had discussions with some TOC practitioners that expressed some frustration about the progress of their implementations. They claimed that while the first part of the TOC project produced outstanding results within a few months, the continuation of the growth was not as rapid and not as easy as they have expected it to be.
Video and pdf materials from the 21st TOCPA Conference, 11 November 2015, UK
You can see the videos and pdf of the presentateions from the 21st TOCPA Conference here