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Using Theory of Constraints to Plan Access To Shared Resources

Clarke Ching points to a document from Network Rail showing the application of TOC to planning shared use of a critical piece of infrastructure. Lessons here for other industries I think...

Developing Deliverable Strategies - Trams Study 1

I’ve started looking at one of the pieces of pre-work for the strategy course. Summary notes of the problem are here. The challenge is to make the system profitable, with a strong steer to focus on increasing revenue. This post contains my first thoughts about a solution. My first thought was to look at the constraints in [...]

Hypertasking

Ming links to this article about research into “Hypertasking” which suggests that although frantic multi-tasking (with the help of phones, IM, email, feeds, etc., etc., etc.) has the appearance of productivity the reality is of significantly reduced performance on the individual cognitive tasks. This is not the first study to suggest that multi-tasking makes [...]

A guide to Theory of Constraints

“A Guide to Implementing the Theory of Constraints (TOC)”:http://www.dbrmfg.co.nz/Preface.htm [via "Frank Patrick":http://www.focusedperformance.com/blogger.html] Technorati Tags Constraints

Learning Organisations and Constraints pt 6

Extending the Current Reality Tree to address clarity reservations...

Learning Organisations and Constraints

While the wiki is offline, here is the first part of the CRT I’m building from the Argyris book Technorati Tags Constraints, Learning_Organisations

Learning Organisations and Constraints - more

Set up a new section on my Wiki for the discussion and development of thoughts around the overlap betwen Chris Argyris's work and Theory of Constraints. Using a drawing tool plugin for the wiki software to aid visual thinking and noting...

Learning Organisations and TOC pt 3

Continuing to work through Overcoming Organizational Defenses to find links with the TOC approach I extract some key UDEs from Chapter 1 of the book and note in passing the similarities of this technique to cognitive mapping.

Learning Organisations and TOC pt 2

Finding more links between TOC and Argyris's observations on organisational defences.

Invisible dogma and learning organisations

Wondering how to combine the Theory of Constraints approach and Thinking Tools with the insights into organisational defense routines from Action Science in order to specify better technology solutions for businesses.

TOC and “Human Capital”

Pointer to Phil Wolff article

Blogs on Constraints

Weblogs that have good stuff on Theory of Constraints

Applying the Theory Of Constraints

First practical steps in applying Goldratt's Theory of Constraints to real-life problems

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