Posts Tagged ‘TOC’
Inefficient Efficiency
Peter Drucker’s clever arrangement of words just rolls off the tongue, and most of us would say Amen every time we hear it, but can you name the things you are doing with great efficiently that you should not be doing at all? Can you name ONE thing you are doing with great efficiently that…
Read MoreEntrepreneurs’ Biggest Problem
Being a fan/advocate for Theory of Constraints Thinking, I find Mike Michalowicz’s statement to be very accurate, especially when you subscribe to the thinking process that says the “Constraint” is the ONE THING that keeps a company from reaching its GOAL. Not knowing your Constraint is a BIG PROBLEM. The converse is knowing where your…
Read MoreAutomation is Delegation
Automation is nothing more than delegating things to technology, and like delegating something to a person, we need to first determine if we should delegate the task at all (maybe we should eliminate it). That’s a framework worth remembering.
Read MoreRinse and Repeat – Step 11 of 11
In the last OneThingLean Blog post, we talked about Step 4, or Elevate the Constraint, Today we will look at the last step in this 5 step process, Rinse and Repeat. For context, lets review our Five Steps one more time. Identify the Constraint Exploit the Constraint Subordinate every other decision to the Constraint Elevate…
Read MoreElevating the Constraint – Part 10 of 11
In the last OneThingLean Blog post, we talked about Step 3, or Subordinating every other decision to the Constraint. Today we will look at step 4, Elevate the Constraint. For context, lets review our Five Steps one more time. Identify the Constraint Exploit the Constraint Subordinate every other decision to the Constraint Elevate the Constraint Rinse…
Read MoreSubordination Consternation – Part 9 of 11
In the last OneThingLean Blog post, we talked about Step 2, or Exploiting the Constraint. Today we will look at step 3, Subordinate every other decision to the Constraint. For context, lets review our Five Steps one more time (I may repeat myself often as it relates to these 5 steps). Identify the Constraint Exploit the…
Read MoreCan Exploitation ever be a Good Thing? – Part 8 of 11
In the last OneThingLean Blog post, we talked about Step ZERO, or determining our Goal. Having already covered the first of the five step process in the two articles prior, finding or identifying the constraint, today we will look at step 2, Exploit the Constraint. For context, lets review our Five Steps one more time…
Read MoreThe 5 Steps – Part 7 of 11
In my last OneThingLean Blog post, we talked about Finding Waldo, finding or identifying the constraint being the first of a five step process, so today we will take a step back and reveal The 5 Steps. I would suggest that these 5 steps are the steps to illumination. Each step you take builds upon…
Read MoreI Found Waldo – Part 6 of 11
Blogging is hard, and starting a blog post is the hardest of things, so here I go (I have snoozed my notification to write this blog post for two weeks now). In my defense, I have been extraordinarily busy as I and the team I work with are right in the middle of launching a…
Read MoreWhere’s Waldo – Part 5 of 11
I bet you thought I had abandoned this Blog. Well, in one sense you would be right, I definitely got distracted, and kept hitting the snooze button on my reminders to write a blog post on the next step in our journey of finding, or maybe a better way of stating it is, identifying our…
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