The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
View on GoodreadsFind 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
