Tools, Theory of Constraints
TOC has two sets of tools in accordance with the two sets of solutions:
- LOGISTICAL SOLUTIONS for managing the flow (of material, products, work in progress, orders, tasks in the project environment, patients in a hospital, etc.)
- Make to Order – MTO
- Make to Availability – MTA
- Purchasing to Order – PTO
- Purchasing to Availability – PTA
- Distribution to Availability – DTA
- Critical Chain Project Management – CCPM
- LOGICAL TOOLS – TOC THINKING PROCESSES to
- analyze the Current Reality (Clouds, UnDesirable Effects – UDEs, Core Cloud, Current Reality Tree – CRT)
- understand and solve dilemmas and conflicts (Clouds, Assumptions, Injections)
- develop solutions (direction of the solution, Injection)
- check the solution for potential negative outcomes (Negative Branch Reservation – NBR)
- check the solution for bringing about benefits (Future Reality Tree – FRT)
- structure and record logic and the result of analysis and solution development (U-Shape)
- identify obstacles on the way of implementing the solution and to build an implementation plan (Intermediate Objectives (IOs) Map, Prerequisite Tree – PRT)
- record the logic of a process (Transition Tree – TrT)
- develop strategy and tactic (Strategy and Tactic Tree – S&T)
- work with people, achieve personal development, collaboration and buy-in, implement changes (all tools listed above, Six layers of resistance)
