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Golden nugget 12: Light blue 2, or: A way to exploit the protective capacity using orders (as oppos

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt Processing clients’ orders by the protective capacity. Language: Details & Options

Golden nugget 11: Light blue 1, or: A way to exploit the protective capacity – Have your cake and e

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt How can we make sure that the proper amount of protective capacity will be maintained? Language: Details & Options

Critical Chain Project Management

by Lawrence Leach How to plan, lead, and complete projects with unprecedented efficiency. Language: Details & Options

The Ultimate Improvement Cycle

by Bob Sproull Maximizing Profits through the Integration of Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints. Language: Details & Options

Improving System Performance

by Engin Kurtcan Describes how the five main steps of TOC were applied to eliminate waste at a supplier firm in Turkey. Language: Details & Options

Concepts and Principles Workshop Series - Performance Measures

by Debra A. Smith Introduces participants to the problems using traditional performance measurements. Language: Details & Options

Re-engineering the manufacturing system

by Robert E. Stein A guide on how to build, implement, and use a manufacturing system. Language: Details & Options

Learning the Basis of Critical Chain

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt Learn how projects can finish ahead of time, within the budget and with the original content! Language: Details & Options

The Measurement Nightmare

by Debra A. Smith How to aligne accounting measurements and policies with TOC implementations. Language: Details & Options

Management Dynamics

by John A. Caspari Merging Constraints Accounting to Drive Improvement. Language: Details & Options

Supply Chain Management at Warp Speed

by Eli Schragenheim Integrating the System from End to End Supply, the sequel to Manufacturing at Warp Speed. Language: Details & Options

Learning the Basis of Supply Chain Management

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt As long as the end consumer has not bought, nobody has sold. Language: Details & Options

Learning the basis of Throughput Accounting

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt How to bridge the gap between the bottom line measurements and the local measurements. Language: Details & Options

Learning the Basis of DBR and Buffer Management

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt How to implemnt Drum-Buffer-Rope and Buffer Management. Language: Details & Options

Golden nugget 13: Reaching the plateau of the U-curve

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt In a recent audit of an MTO company (producing metal cables of the kind that is used for holding elevators), two mysteries were evident. Language: Details & Options

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Operations Management at the Dead Sea Works according to TOC and Six Sigma

by Alex Klarman This presentations shows how to integrate TOC with Lean and Six Sigma, and increase Throughput using TOC in an environment that is not open to new ideas, and the difference between having the resource, using it and exploiting it. Case study of a plant with the lowest throughput in the world reaching the highest one. This is the story showing what a biochemist and a statistician can achieve in a production environment. Language: English Details & Options

The Path to Improve the Flow of Goods in Retail

by Darius Radkevicius This presentation explains how to implement automated POOGI (Process Of Ongoing Improvement) to achieve real results in Retail. Based on the experience and results of implementation in 5 retail chains, you will learn the POOGI steps, specifically to determine where to focus (or what is the constraint of the system), how to exploit, and how to subordinate.- 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

The Difference between Theory and Practice Implementing TOC

by Mickey Granot This presentation exposes the risks of implementing TOC in the same way it is being taught, how to identify when implementation goes astray and what needs to be done to ensure sustainability. Language: English Details & Options

TOC for Entrepreneurs

by Ed Hill As a growing market, Entrepreneurs are a green field for common sense and TOC. Ed Hill along with the Manufacturing Exchange Partnership (MEP) share their Approach and results in using TOC with Entreprenuers. Presented during the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO) Conference held in Miami, Florida, USA, in October 2004. Language: English Details & Options

TOC in Global Shipbuilding Company - “Focused on decision supporting methodology for product portfolio strategy”

by In-Il Kim This presentation proposes the new decision supporting methodology based on TOC for conducting an optimal product portfolio strategy and presents the Decision Supporting System (DSS) implemented adopting the new methodology. Case study, testimonial and experience shared during the TOCICO Conference in 2008. Language: English Details & Options

Doubling Profits in Two Years during economic downturn

by Kartik Modi Godrej Locks implements an enterprise-wide initiative starting & ending with the customer by implementing a TOC solution. Language: English Details & Options

Exploiting the constraint: Management Attention

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt shares his realization of the real constraint of any organization - namely what he calls "management attention" - the capacity of managers to give attention and how much of this capacity is actually wasted. Language: English Details & Options

Structured practical techniques for implementing TOC Turbo Boost Constraint Performance in 24 hours

by Andrew Kay Increase constraint output by up to 100% within 24hrs after DBR has been applied by causing both management and employees to be fully in harmony fighting against a common enemy: the red line. Details & Options

Three Layers of Logic

by Humberto Baptista New developments in the Thinking Processes (TP) tools and understanding. This session examines the root of our limitations, specifically why our understanding of the current TP tools and mechanisms are limiting us from understanding and most importantly from influencing the situation in a more broad and intense way. With simple modifications and simple adaptations, faster and more effective results can be gained. Details & Options

Goldilocks and the Three Buffers

by Dee Jacob How do you know if your project buffer is the right size to immunize your project? This session covers the type of elements that can impact buffer sizing, task variability, iteration variability, known/ unknowns and risk, and it focuses on how to use traditional methods to tell if the buffer is too small or is appropriate given the variation at hand. Valuable lessons for those in the project management environment. Details & Options

Having presence in Exclusive Brand Stores vs. Placing Productions in Multi-brand Outlets

by Kiran Kothekar This session explores the Consumer Goods S&T specifically for fashion products where buyers must see the item. Why Exclusive Brand Outlet (EBO) vs. Multi-Brand Outlet (MBO)? How should a company grow? Yes, through outlets, but not doing it properly can bring a company to its knees. Resolving the conflict of EBOs vs. MBOs through TOC Solutions and Thinking. Details & Options

How people grow in TOC

by Yuji Kishira In Japan the results of implementing TOC in several companies yields the similar results: performance improves dramatically and WA “harmony” is achieved. The presentation explains how the 4 TOC Pillars (inherent simplicity, every conflict can be removed, people are good, never say I know) and the S&T tools can allow people to grow and evaporate the disharmony whereby bringing Harmony to a company, its employees and stakeholders. Details & Options

Comparing the Toyota Way and the Theory of Constraints

by Kevin Kohls Leveraging benefits and avoiding pitfalls of using Toyota Way, Lean and TOC. Kevin brings perspective from 25 year experience at General Motors. Details & Options

How Being on Viable Vision through SnT Resolves the Conflict of Long Term vs. Short Term

by Kiran Kothekar The management of most companies is in a conflict of focusing on tasks for the short term versus tasks for the long term. This presentation shows how Fleetguard Filters achieved its Viable Vision with the same management team and how implementing the S&T solves the conflict for management attention. Details & Options

Managing High Availability at low inventory in environment of wide variety of SKUs

by Puneet Kulraj This presentation addresses how to manage the availability of products in a retail chain where the real constraint is the amount of shelf space and the Retail managers quest is to eliminate lost sales and make the best decisions for category management and product mix. Solutions include looking at availability from perspective of customer (not just the supplier), replenishing by SKU and managing inventory at the category level using TOC tools such as Replenishment and DBM. Details & Options

TOC Applied to your Life - Panel Discussion

by Dr. Alan Barnard Three renowned TOC Professionals share in a Q&A mode of presentation their reasons, motivations, insights and vision about learning and using TOC. Details & Options

Point-Counter-Point - Panel Discussion

by Dee Jacob Two renowned TOC Professionals interact with the audience and share some insights on project management implementation aspects like buffer management, project planing and execution, and their view on the diferences and similarities between TOC and Lean. Details & Options

Sustainable Success - Panel Discussion

by Eli Schragenheim Eli Schragenheim moderates this panel by asking varios TOC Professionals and Practitioners about their experience implementing TOC and their insights to sustain results. By interacting with the audience, some of the following questions are discussed: Do we learn from success or failure? How do we deal with new management trying to implement their experience? Do managers really know what is going on or not? Details & Options

Achilles' Heel: Identifying and Leveraging a Competitor's Weakest Point

by Boaz Ronen If everything else fails and a win-win solution cannot be achieved, the Achilles Heel methodology uses 5 simple focusing steps to either attack your adversary and protect against your adversary. These five Focusing Steps are ideal for small companies with large adversaries for attacking or defending against an adversary, for finding value offers or for making more throughput. Details & Options

Developing the Process for Top Level Decision Making

by Eli Schragenheim An experiment using the knowledge and process of Standing on the Shoulder of Giants has provided research and development of a platform and the related process for decision making. Challenge the basic assumptions within TOC and outside of TOC using guidelines (six steps) to look on an area, respect what has been done, but look for MORE! What do we want to sell? What capacity to prepare? This presentation paves the way to TOC Business Intelligence. Details & Options

Implementing Replenishment in a Hi-Tech Environment

by Duncan Patrick Teledyne Dalsa Digital Imaging shares how it went from manufacturing 1000 cameras per month with 66% on time delivery and a lead time of 10-12 weeks to producing 3600 cameras per month with the same resources with 98.3% on time delivery and 6 days lead time. This presentation shares the TOC Replenishment solution and offers practical formulas, example and concepts to walk away and apply in your own organization. Details & Options

Lessons Learned Writing Transformational Strategy and Tactic Trees (for organizations)

by Lisa Ferguson Lisa shares some of her insights on how to write the Transformational Strategy and Tactic Tree. She summarizes the lessons into 4 pieces of a puzzle, going from the "big picture" to the "details" when building a transformational S&T Tree. This presentation provides the key insights on how to write Level 1 and the understanding of each of the 5 levels. It also goes over two components of the details: the sentence structure and the 5 entities in a step. The presentation uses an example to ilustrate these lessons. Details & Options

Applying the Principles of Flow to Non Dependent Resources

by Matías Birrell This presentation explains how to apply the principles of flow to situations where the resources are working in parallel and the fluctuation of task time is huge (and where there is no way to use capacity or time to control them). Originally developed during Viable Vision implementation, this shows the logic of the application, elements of S&T Tree (with template), and the applicability to other situations like Quality Control or maintenance. Details & Options

Competitive Advantage through Critical Chain

by Antonio Vasco Nunes Brasil Embraer SA, one of the world's largest aircraft manufacturers, implements Critical Chain in its commercial aviation sector and engages in a process of ongoing improvements (POOGI). This case study shares the problems, objectives, and results of the CC implementation as well as their ongoing journey with TOC. Details & Options

TOC in Government: Challenges and Opportunities
Utah Department of Work Services

by Kristen Cox Government has a tendency to be inefficient and use processes that do not bring results needed. It faces unique challenges in requirements, compliance activities, stakeholders. This presentation is about the opportunities that exist from applying TOC in government. The Utah Department of Workforce Services has been involved with TOC for two years and has achieved amazing success. Listen as Utah's Executive Director shares the unique insights on how government can take advantage of TOC, specifically how to use the TOC Thinking tools and principles such as Supply Chain and Distribution and translate them into government environment. How to engage an enormous organization that has diverse requirements, and how to get them to embrace simplicity? How to stay focused as an organization when there are pulls from every direction... local legislature, federal officials, multiple stakeholders. Includes goals, lessons learned, and new opportunities. Details & Options

Solid Gains Throughout an Acute Hospital

by Mark de Kiewiet This session explains how TOC was successfully and sustainably implemented in an Acute Hospital mainly due to key elements in the leadership environment: changing behavioral mindset and challenging the current status quo. Details & Options

First Throughput Accounting, then GAAP

by Rick Denison Listen as this TOC practitioner with 20 years experience shares a Throughput Accounting presentation with 3 aspects for learning– (1) what are the compromises that are built into ERP systems (2) why setting up flow FIRST is important in operations and (3) how throughput accounting could be THE WAY for internal decision making. Details & Options

Boyd Cycles, TOC and the Agile Organization

by Kenneth Francis This presentation discusses John Boyd's Thinking (Boyd Cycle) and the concept of organization agility as a means for organizations to deal with a reality that is forcing them to deal with an increasing tempo in change. Shows how the Boyd cycle can implement this agility in organizations and how TOC can significantly improve the Boyd Cycle. Details & Options

Facing Inconsistencies... System Boundaries and The Constraint

by Mario Gil Under the instructions of Dr. Goldratt, the Odyssey Alumni (San Jose, TX) examined the inconsistencies faced by TOC starting with the four aspects of change and looked for the direction which will release the inherent potential in managing organizations with TOC. This presentation shares the entire process followed by the Alumni class, as well as their ideas and some tools for releasing the inherent potential. Details & Options

Ellwood City Forge's Quest to Become Ever Flourishing

by Daniel Hamilton The President of Ellwood City Forge shares the company's TOC journey which began in 1992 with The Goal book and their quest to become an Ever-flourishing company. Details & Options

Win-Win-Win Public Works in Fukushima before and after Disaster

by Yuji Kishira The residents, government and construction companies of Fukushima pull together in effort to recover from the devastation left after an earthquake caused by the Tsunami. The TOC Cloud and Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) tools aid with the biggest challenge: the clean up of radiation contaminated materials at the Fukushima atomic energy plant. Details & Options

The 7 Key Points for Designing Profitable Manufacturing Systems

by Kevin Kohls The success of Toyota has been achieved not only through the Toyota Production System (TPS) tools but its management principles. This presentation explores the Toyota management principles, provides a comparison of the Toyota Way and Theory of Constraints (TOC), and shares 7 Key points for designing a profitable manufacturing system, specifically: Throughput Accounting, embracing variability, using simulation, designing in the bottleneck, designing out management constraints, validating TOC and other lean game changers, and finally, understanding the accuracy of your analysis. Details & Options

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants - a process review

by Lisa Scheinkopf If there is a process that you would like to improve significantly, and it is one that you care deeply about, so much that you are willing to invest yourself, the Standing on the Shoulders process can be used to find MORE. This presentation includes some clarity and discussions for the Standing on the Shoulders process. Details & Options

Using TOC to Boost Lean Organisations

by Philip Marris In 2011 TOC was called in to help one of the world's largest automotive equipment manufacturers (ranked among the Top 30 LEAN companies). Facing a huge increase in demand, the plant was unable to produce enough to fulfill orders, which led to expediting and even late orders. TOC was applied to the production and immediately performance was improved. For more details, please watch this case study. Details & Options

Enhancing Performance of New Product Development Projects in Auto Components Companies

by Satyashri Mohanty The automotive industry faces increased pressure to develop more products requiring OEM and auto components vendors to respond swiftly (more and more projects) and creating an environment with significant back and forth flow of information between the two parties. Managing the new project development projects has become a huge challenge for the auto components vendors. This presentation provides an understanding of the issues faced by OEMs, the impact on auto components vendors and a way out on how to use of the S&T to enhance performance of new product development projects. Details & Options

Using TOC-TP as a Guide to Integrate Lean, Six Sigma, Process Management and TOC Solutions for Business Improvement

by Eduardo Correa de Moura In order to obtain the maximum results possible, it is essential to integrate the contributions of Lean, Six Sigma, Process Management and the Theory of Constraints (TOC). Each business improvement methodology brings paradigm shift philosophy and provides a system-wide perspective relevant for business. This presentation shows how to use the TOC Thinking Processes to integrate these approaches for business improvement. Details & Options

How to Improve Toyota Production System flow factory performance in 6 days by 60% Increase

by Katsumi Ozeki Can one of the best Toyota Production System (TPS) implementation still be improved? This presentation will walk you through the steps of exactly how this happened for one ( and then several) lines within a Japanese manufacturing company, using the combination of including the people (Gemba) and the TOC approach of getting immediate results out of a production line. Details & Options

Panel Discussion - Aerospace

A panel of TOC practitioners from the Aerospace Aviation industry (commercial, military) answers questions from the audience and provides global perspective of their experiences with implementing Critical Chain for project management. Details & Options

Project Management for Value (PMV) in Internal Projects

by Boaz Ronen Internal projects are those which are initiated and executed within an organization by their own project management team. In order succeed in bringing the maximum value to the organization, there are 3 key elements for managing internal projects: (1) value should be considered as the goal of an internal project The PMV pyramid places value as the top criteria and it is superimposed over the triangle of scope, time and budget (2) the life cycle of the project should contain the final phase of business take off (3) the issue of disparity of business goals between owners and project managers must be addressed. This presentation includes discussion of the above along with results of 11 PMV implementations where companies have increased T by 40% and increased value by 60%. Details & Options

The Boeing Company CCPM Maturity Model

by Jared Price What happens when the CCPM leaders and champions are not longer part of an organization? What is the model to guide, continue and continuously improve the CCPM journey? Boeing shares its development of the CCPM Maturity Model. Details & Options

From "Push" to "Pull" Titan Watch Division

by J. Murali This presentation focuses on 2 key challenges faced during the TOC implementation at Titan Watch Division, a large retail chain in India and the 5th largest watch manufacturer in the world: (1) how do you approach a giant company like Titan who holds 60% of market share and tell them they can improve further by restructuring their distribution and supply chain and shifting to TOC pull system? Where to start? (2) Once the supply chain is migrated to pull, how do we take this to the market that is still in the End-of-the-month mindset of push basis? Details & Options

Sifting Information Out of the Data Ocean
Using the Company's Data in the Buy-In Process

by Hadas Schragneheim Whether turning a prospect into a client or during an implementation, at every step you must sell the solution again and again. This lecture shows you how to use a client's data in the buy in process. Includes three examples of how to take the client data and in a very simple way show why they need to focus on the few critical areas in order to improve the bottomline. 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

The Systemic Cloud and The Layers of Resistance Hiding in Plain Insight

by Kelvyn Youngman As long as a cloud exists, as long as a conflict or dilemma exists, we can say with confidence that we have not overcome the layers of resistance. How do you find the layers of resistance in the cloud? This presentation will delve deeply into answering this question using transformations through the change matrix. Awarded as Finalist of the 2012 TOCICO Conference. Details & Options

Applying the TOC Thinking Processes in Public Sector Organizations

by Richard A. Reid This presentation describes the application of TOC Thinking Processes (TP) at governmental agencies in 3 locations: a city water utility department in New Mexico, waste collection and disposal in several Africa countries, and various municipal services in the Philippines. Issues and their resolution along with opportunities and their exploitation are presented and analyzed for each of these public sector organizations. Presented at the TOCICO Regional Conference (Tacoma, WA - June 2009). Language: English 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

Implementing TOC in Cash Constrained Organizations

by Ravi Gilani Ravi presents a series of actions to be implemented when cash is a constraint.. He starts clearly defining the criteria to determine cash as a constraint, since having cash shortage is NOT a constraint. He uses several examples to show the immediate and practical way to exploit and elevate the cash constraint. During this presentation he also answers real case questions placed by the audience. Towards the end of the presentations he shows the impact of inducting cash “in one go”. Details & Options

Three legs of TOC implementations

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt In this video Dr. Eli Goldratt explains the pradigms through which the TOC implementationg go or should go, starting with the change from local vs global, continuing with the concept of strategy and the importance of creating and exploiting a decisive competitive edge, and finally establishing the organizational environment to reach ever-flourishing where the engines of disharmony are eliminated to enable a real inovative and learning working environment. Details & Options