The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Find the slowest step in your operation and you've found what limits everything else. Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox teach it as a novel: plant manager Alex Rogo has three months to make his factory profitable, guided by Jonah, a physicist who answers with questions. The ideas became the Theory of Constraints.
Core ideas
- Measure what matters: The goal is making money, so you judge a plant by throughput, inventory and operating expense, not by machine utilization.
- Herbie sets the pace: On a Boy Scout hike the slowest scout holds back the troop, and running non-bottleneck machines flat out just piles up work-in-progress and cost.
- Five steps, repeated: Identify the constraint, exploit it, subordinate everything else to it, elevate it, and start over when the constraint moves.
Published2004
Pages384
ISBN9780884271789
ReadOct 2023
