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Ch 31. Viable Vision for Health Care Systems

by Dr. Gary Wadhwa An implementation of the TOC Viable Vision in a for-profit healthcare practice. Language: Details & Options

Focused Operations Management for Health Services Organizations

by Boaz Ronen Significantly improve the operations of Health Services Organizations. Language: Details & Options

We All Fall Down

by Julie Wright A TOC Business Novel for Healthcare. Language: Details & Options

Ch 32. TOC for Large-Scale Healthcare Systems

by Julie Wright Introduces a holistic process by which TOC can be effectively used in Large Scale Healthcare Systems. Language: Details & Options

Pride and Joy

by Alex Knight How to manage patient flow in a hospital. Language: Details & Options

Full TOC.tv Access Membership

by Goldratt Marketing Access the largest and most comprehensive source of original and NEW TOC videos. Language: Details & Options

The Path: Leveraging Operations in a Complex and Chaotic World

by Shridhar Lolla A game changing way of leveraging operations to achieve breakthrough performance. Language: Details & Options

The Choice

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt Goldratt explains his fundamental system of beliefs. Language: Details & Options

Theory of Constraints Handbook

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt Written by TOC Professionals on all aspects of the body of knowledge developed by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Language: Details & Options

TOC Reader

by Goldratt Marketing Access TOC eBooks and documents while you are on a train, airplane, or wherever you’d like. Language: Details & Options

Ch 01. Introduction to TOC - My Perspective

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt Dr. Goldratt gives his perspective on what TOC is. Language: Details & Options

Ch 02. The Problems with Project Management

by Ed Walker Explains how CC overcomes each limitation to traditional projects mgmt. Language: Details & Options

Ch 03. A Critical Chain Project Management Primer

by Janice Cerveny This chapter compares traditional (critical path) project management with the Critical Chain approach. Language: Details & Options

Ch 04. Getting Durable Results with Critical Chain—A Field Report

by Realization Technologies, Inc. Shares how successful adopters have put CC concepts into practice and achieved durable results. Language: Details & Options

Ch 05. Making Change Stick

by Robert C. Newbold This chapter is about creating and evaluating effective implementation processes. Language: Details & Options

Ch 06. Project Mgmt in a Lean World—Translating Lean Six Sigma into the Project Environment

by AGI-Goldratt Institute Provides the difficulties in translating Lean, Six Sigma to the project environment. Language: Details & Options

Ch 07. A Review of Literature on Drum-Buffer-Rope, Buffer Mgmt and Distribution

by John H. Blackstone, Jr. Reviews articles describing the application of DBR, Buffer Mgmt, and replenishment. Language: Details & Options

Ch 08. DBR, Buffer Management, and VATI Flow Classification

by Mokshagundam L. Srikanth This chapter examines the application of TOC to production or manufacturing environments. Language: Details & Options

CH 09. From DBR to Simplified-DBR for Make-to-Order

by Eli Schragenheim This chapter is not focused on DBR, but on S-DBR Language: Details & Options

Ch 10. Managing Make-to-Stock and the Concept of Make-to-Availability

by Eli Schragenheim Focuses on Make-To Availability and the operational ramifications. Language: Details & Options

Ch 11. Supply Chain Management

by Amir Schragenheim A guide to manage stocks across the supply chain according to TOC principles. Language: Details & Options

Ch 12. Integrated Supply Chain

by Carol Ptak The chapter introduces a new concept called Actively Synchronized Replenishment. Language: Details & Options

Ch 13. Traditional Measures in Finance and Accounting, Problems, Literature Review, and TOC Measures

by Charlene Spoede Budd This chapter is a basic introduction to Throughput Accounting. Language: Details & Options

Ch 14. Resolving Measurement/Performance Dilemmas

by Debra A. Smith Explores the relationship between the logistical system and its measurements. Language: Details & Options

Ch 15. Continuous Improvement and Auditing

by Dr. Alan Barnard How to cause the change and achieve a POOGI with an auditing solution. Language: Details & Options

Ch 16. Holistic TOC Implementation Case Studies

by Dr. Alan Barnard Good Practices for Implementing TOC Holistically. Language: Details & Options

Ch 17. Traditional Strategy Models and Theory of Constraints

by Marjorie J. Cooper Reviews the major schools of thought on business strategy and briefly critiques. Language: Details & Options

Ch 18. Theory of Constraints Strategy

by Gerald Kendall What differentiates a TOC Strategy?   Language: Details & Options

Ch 19. Strategy

by H. William Dettmer Presents the Constraint Mgmt Model (CMM). Language: Details & Options

Ch 20. The Layers of Resistance - The Buy-In Process According to TOC

by Efrat Goldratt How to overcome resistance to change in a systematic buy-in process. Language: Details & Options

Ch 21. Less Is More - Applying the Flow Concepts to Sales

by Mauricio Herman Case study of flow concepts implementations to the mgmt of the sales funnel in an organization.  Language: Details & Options

Ch 22. Mafia Offers: Dealing With a Market Constraint

by Dr. Lisa Lang Introduction to the Unrefusable (or Mafia) Offer - the Theory of Constraints marketing solution. Language: Details & Options

Ch 23. The TOC Thinking Processes

by John Davies This chapter provides an overview of the TP, their nature and use. Language: Details & Options

Ch 24. Daily Management with TOC

by Oded Cohen Gives managers the TP tools and procedures to enhance their ability to make better decisions. Language: Details & Options

Ch 25. Thinking Processes Including S&T Trees

by Lisa Scheinkopf Anybody can be a Jonah! Language: Details & Options

Ch 26. TOC for Education

by Kathy Suerken The power of TOC as a teaching methodology. Language: Details & Options

Ch 27. Theory of Constraints in Prisons

by Christina Cheng Applying TOC to rehabilitation within the Singapore prison environment. Language: Details & Options

Ch 28. TOC in Services: Services Management

by Boaz Ronen Presents management concepts and tools, for value enhancement for service organizations. Language: Details & Options

Ch 29. TOC in Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

by John Ricketts Focuses on why TOC has taken so long to reach professional, scientific, and technical services. Language: Details & Options

ch 30. Customer Support Services According to TOC

by Alex Klarman Provides the `when to´ and `how to´ guide for analyzing the problems and designing. Language: Details & Options

Ch 33. Theory of Constraints in Complex Organizations

by Dr. James R. Holt What are the unique problems of complex organizations? Language: Details & Options

Ch 34. Applications of Strategy and Tactics Trees in Organizations

by Lisa Ferguson Shows the applications of the Viable Vision S&T (Strategy & Tactic) trees for organizations. Language: Details & Options

Ch 35. Complex Environments

by Daniel P. Walsh All changes must not just improve a local activity, but rather the entire organization. Language: Details & Options

Ch 36. Combining Lean, Six Sigma, and the TOC to Achieve Breakthrough Performance

by AGI-Goldratt Institute Provides the synergies and the discords of TOC and Lean Six Sigma. Language: Details & Options

Ch 37. Using TOC in Complex Systems

by John Covington This chapter is to use TOC thinking to solve the core problem in complex organizational systems. Language: Details & Options

Ch 38. Theory of Constraints for Personal Productivity/Dilemmas

by James F Cox How to identify a few control points for managing your personal productivity. Language: Details & Options

TOC-TP Categories of Legitimate Reservation (CLR)

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt Learn the rules for scrutinizing the validity and logical of thinking processes. Language: Details & Options

Embracing Change vs Resistance to Change

by Efrat Goldratt One must examine what causes willingness to embrace change, what causes resistance to change, and how these contradicting reactions might appear simultaneously. Language: Details & Options

Strategy and Tactics

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt This eDocument will show you how to build a Startegy and Tactics Tree. Language: Details & Options

S&T Tree - Consumer Goods - Inventory Turns

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt This eDocument shows you the strategy & tactics to ensure 100% availability with minimum stock. Language: Details & Options

S&T Tree - Reliable Rapid Response

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt Create a decisive competitive edge based on reliability and rapid response to customer needs. Language: Details & Options

Introduction to the Theory of Constraints (TOC) Management System

by Thomas B. McMullen Jr. Tells you what TOC is, where it came from, who uses it, and how to get started with it. Language: Details & Options

TOCICO Conference Presentations

by Goldratt Marketing Valuable knowledge and insights about TOC are presented at annual international and regional conferences sponsored by TOCICO, the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization. The TOCICO Conference presentations provide a vast number of references, testimonials, case studies and knowledge development, and these incredible treasures are captured on video and are available to provide direction and answer. Language: Details & Options

Dentistry with a Vision: Building a Rewarding Practice and a Balanced Life

by Gerald Kendall The book provides a systems view of a health care practice. Language: Details & Options

TOC.tv Basic Membership

Don´t miss this unique opportunity! Access all TOC Conference Presentations on TOC.tv with hundreds of videos sharing knowledge, case studies, implementation learnings, testimonials and new developments. Language: Details & Options

TOC Thinking: Removing Constraints for Business Growth

by Yishai Ashlag Why write a book about management philosophy? Language: Details & Options

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Fifteen year progress report on achieving breakthroughs in health and social care using the Theory of Constraints

by Alex Knight This presentation details how TOC has been applied in healthcare over the past 15 years, and specfically addresses: • History of the progress to date • Theory in practice and practice in theory − identifying and explaining the inherent simplicity • Lessons learnt:  opening a new market, building the detailed solutions, building the supporting software, creating the consulting capability • What next for health and social care? • Implications for opening other industries (legal and financial services) Details & Options

TOC in Healthcare: Broadening the Shoulders of our Giant

by Alex Knight The presentation covers a number of different topics for applying TOC in the healthcare environment and shares the latest results from a project in the mental health area. Further, as the process for Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is applied to this service industry, this session demonstrates that a new insight “projuction” exists which sits between the production and project environment to improve methodology. Details & Options

Managing patient flow using time buffers

by Alex Knight This paper highlights the achievements that have been made in delivering breakthroughs in performance in the healthcare environment using the TOC principles by QFI Consulting over the last five years. It also highlights the conceptual differences between a TOC and Lean approach. Language: English Details & Options

Achieving win-win-win in US healthcare reform

by Lisa Ferguson This roadmap for U.S. Healthcare Reform discusses why change (costs increasing and quality of care not excellent)? what to change (identify core conflict)? what to change to (solution or pot of gold for stakeholders)? How to cause the change (utilize S&T Trees to implement the change)? and How to create POOGI? Details & Options

Viable Vision achievable in Healthcare

by Dr. Gary Wadhwa Dr. Wadhwa's changed the academic practice into private practice and achieved Viable Vision by following its logic without consciously knowing it. In this case study, testimonial and experience he shares how this happened. Language: English Details & Options

Can TOC cure ailing US Health Care System

by Gary Wadhwa This presentation questions whether TOC can cure ailments surrounding the US Healthcare system, and specifically discusses: • Why change?  − unsustainable current reality, UDEs (sick health care system) • What to change? − Gaps between current reality and vision − Find root cause for gaps (diagnosis) • To what to change to? − Goal, Vision (state of health) • How to bring about change? − Team work to develop S & T tree to implement change (treatment) • Case history small health care organization Presented during the TOCICO 2011 Annual Conference (Newark - June 2011). Details & Options

The core problem of Healthcare Systems

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt Dr. Goldratt presents an analysis and the direction of the solution to the problem that the healthcare systems face. Language: English and Español Details & Options

Applying the TOC Thinking Processes in a Healthcare Organization: A Case Study

by Richard A. Reid This case study presented at the TOCICO Conference 2005, documents how TOC Thinking Process (TP) was applied in a non-profit healthcare clinic. The problematic symptoms of long patient wait times, questionable financial viability, and high staff turnover were synthesized into a CCC. Two strategic injections were logically validated using FRT. Language: English Details & Options

Managing (Improving) Back Office Healthcare Operations

by Janice Cerveny This is a Case study for process improvement in healthcare and using the focusing steps to reduce oncology-chemotherapy "losses." Language: English Details & Options

The Theory of Constraints - Proven beyond doubt in reality

by Alex Knight Achieving a sustainable breakthrough in performance across health and social care systems. Presented by Alex Knight during the 1st European Results Gathering of TOC Professionals sponsored by TOCICO - held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands October 2009. Language: English Details & Options

Injecting TOC with Lean Six Sigma into Process Improvement in Healthcare

by Bahadir Inozu Learn how TOC, Lean and Six Sigma are complementary and how TOC Applications in conjunction with Lean Six Sigma have a great potential for system-wide breakthrough improvements in Healthcare. Language: English Details & Options

Operational excellence by TOC armed IE

by Atsushi Kitabayashi To become an ever flourishing company, Omron Healthcare of Japan conducts a holistic implementation of TOC. This case study provides details of the execution. Details & Options

Viable Vision for health care

by Dr. Gary Wadhwa Introduction to multiple improvement tools integrated to achieve Viable Vision, explanation of concept, and details for 2 specific cases:  community hospital and Adirondack Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. Presented at the TOCICO regional conference (Tacoma, WA - June 2009). Language: English Details & Options

TOC in Healthcare - an excerpt

by Alex Knight Excerpt of the presentation given during the 2004 TOCICO Annual Conference held in Miami, FL. USA. Language: English Details & Options

Critical Chain: Short-Duration Tasks

by Hilbert Robinson This presentation provides an introduction to the issues and solutions of short-duration-task CCPM. Short-duration-task CCPM deals with projects where a significant portion of the activities has durations of minutes or hours, and where status updates are needed on sub-day intervals. Language: English Details & Options

Critical Chain for Inpatient Management of Patients with Diabetes Mellitus

by Noriaki Aoki This is a Case study for applying Critical Chain (TOC-PM) to design resource allocation and scheduling system for healthcare professionals at Japan Trauma Data Bank. Presented during the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO) Conference held in Miami, Florida, USA, in November 2006. Language: English Details & Options

Dealing with the nursing shortages

by Dominique Halaby An overview of how the Rio Grande Valley successfully employed the concepts of TOC to increase the throughput of locally trained nurses and allied health professionals. Presented at the TOCICO Regional Conference (Tacoma, WA - June 2009). Language: English Details & Options

Myths about product registration of medical device in Japan

by Hitoshi Arai How to apply TOC applications in a healthcare industry which is highly regulated by governmental bodies. The Thinking Processes and CCPM are one of the most powerful tools in such a regulated industry. Presented at the TOCICO International Conference in Tokyo, Japan (November 2009). Language: English Details & Options

Quantifying Throughput in Public Sector Organizations

by Richard A. Reid This presentation shows the relevance of customer/client satisfaction as a throughput metric and introduces a widely used method (SERVQUAL) that is both simple and valid for measuring for organizations providing municipal, educational, health services where financial measures are inappropriate. Language: English Details & Options

Why Assessment Units aren't a waste of time: A TOC perspective

by Roy Stratton This presentation shows TOC and Time Buffer Management at work in a healthcare environment, specifically with emergency and planned care using Buffer Management functions. It also provides a TOC perspective on Medical Assessment Units (MAUs) as bed capacity buffers, specifically applying the five steps of focusing, MAU bed buffer management, and MAU design criteria. This case study, testimonial and experience was presented during the TOCICO Annual Conference in New York 2011.  Details & Options

Throughput enhancement in operating rooms: Doing more with existing resources

by Shimeon Pass Value Focused Management (VFM) is applied in a Healthcare setting (with 3 cases) to increase Throughput (T), define measures of performance, identify the significant Value Drivers, decide how to exploit and improve those Value Drivers, and then execute & control. Details & Options

The use of TOC in a medical appointment scheduling system

by James F Cox TOC implementation at a family practice brings immediate and significant results. This presentation will share the problems that existed within the family practice and how the use of TOC tools, specifically the TOC Thinking Processes, DBR, Buffer Management, Mafia Offer, Sales improved the performance of the system resulting in better healthcare of the patient and increased productivity and revenue for the providers. Details & Options

Standing on the Shoulders of TOC to Impact an ENTIRE NATION

by Kathy Suerken This presentation is a Thinking Process analysis of Japan as a nation. The core problems in Japan are similar to the core problems of other nations: domestic manufacturing is falling, incomes are going down, national debt is rising and healthcare systems are costly and strained. If we teach people to think clearly, can we improve a nation? Listen as presenters share their ambitious plans for using TOC for Education and the TOC Thinking tools in Japanese schools, government and businesses. Details & Options

Applying TOC to (government) services

by Hans Steenporte This presentation shows the elements of TOC that can be applied to specific segments: public services, professional services, IT services, banking/insurance, healthcare services. Hans shows the diferences in terminology between the manufacturing and service environment, and then goes into the specific elements that have to be implemented to significantly improve the service environments in contrast with the traditional "production" ones. Details & Options