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Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done.
Described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a 'genius', Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an internationally recognized leader in the development of new business management concepts and systems. This 20th anniversary edition includes a series of detailed case study interviews by David Whitford, Editor at Large, Fortune Small Business, which explore how organizations around the world have been transformed by Eli Goldratt's ideas.
The story of Alex's fight to save his plant contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed by Eli Goldratt. Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors!
"Critical Chain," a gripping fast-paced business novel, does for
Project Management what Eli Goldratt's other novels have done for
Production and Marketing. Dr. Goldratt's books have transformed the
thinking and actions of management throughout the world.
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The Choice (Paperback)
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag
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R702
Discovery Miles 7 020
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Deep insights into the thoughts of Eli Goldratt that explain the
thinking behind his internationally acclaimed business novels. An
original book by the management guru, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, the
originator of the Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of
Constraints, the Thinking Processes, and Critical Chain Project
Management. Clear, engaging and stimulating, this book is an
accessible entry point to the complex thinking of the Theory of
Constraints.
Takes the fundamentals presented in the bestselling and critically
acclaimed The Goal and applies them to a retail scenario. Highly
engaging storytelling style is used to bring complex theory and its
application to life for the author. An original book by the
management guru, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, the originator of the
Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of Constraints, the
Thinking Processes, and Critical Chain Project Management.
Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry—even to your bosses—but not to your competitors.
Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant—or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a professor from student days—Jonah—to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. The story of Alex’s fight to save his plant is more than compulsive reading. It contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas, which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC), developed by Eli Goldratt.
One of Eli Goldratt’s convictions was that the goal of an individual or an organization should not be defined in absolute terms. A good definition of a goal is one that sets us on a path of ongoing improvement.
Pursuing such a goal necessitates more than one breakthrough. In fact it requires many. To be in a position to identify these breakthroughs we should have a deep understanding of the underlying rules of our environment. Twenty-five years after writing The Goal, Dr. Goldratt wrote “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.” In this article he provided the underlying rules of operations. This article appears at the end of this book.
The 30th Anniversary edition represents the first time the narrative in The Goal has been substantially updated. Goldratt’s Five Focusing Steps have been added, and his essay, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants,” is included. The Fortune Small Business interviews (known by some as the “case studies”) that appeared in the 20th and 25th Anniversary editions have been removed from the book, but are available on this website.
After reading the newspapers and following the sharp oscillations
of the stock market, it becomes apparent that hi-tech companies are
of a different breed. Never before have the chances of making a
fortune been so realistic and never before have large companies
been so fragile. What is really going on inside these hi-tech
companies? What types of pressures and challenges are they facing?
And how do they cope? Computer software providers, especially the
ones that specialize in handling the data needs of organizations,
are prime examples of these volatile companies. In the dollar
giants. No wonder investors were attracted. In 1998 it was easy for
such companies to raise as much money as they wanted. But now,
investment funds have dried up. Why? And more importantly, is there
a way to reverse the trend? This book gives the answers.
Takes the fundamentals presented in the bestselling and critically
acclaimed The Goal and applies them to a retail scenario. Highly
engaging storytelling style is used to bring complex theory and its
application to life for the author. An original book by the
management guru, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, the originator of the
Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of Constraints, the
Thinking Processes, and Critical Chain Project Management.
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The Choice (Hardcover)
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag
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R3,825
Discovery Miles 38 250
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Deep insights into the thoughts of Eli Goldratt that explain the
thinking behind his internationally acclaimed business novels. An
original book by the management guru, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, the
originator of the Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of
Constraints, the Thinking Processes, and Critical Chain Project
Management. Clear, engaging and stimulating, this book is an
accessible entry point to the complex thinking of the Theory of
Constraints.
This fast-paced business novel does for project management what The
Goal and It's Not Luck have done for production and marketing.
Goldratt's novels have traditionally slain sacred cows and
delivered new ways of looking at processes which seem like common
sense once you read them. Critical Chain is no exception. In
perhaps Eli's most readable book yet, two of the established
principles of project management, the engineering estimate and
project milestones, are found wanting and dismissed, and other
established principles are up for scrutiny - as Goldratt once more
applies his Theory of Constraints. The approach is radical, yet
clear, understandable and logical. New techniques are introduced,
and Project Buffers, Feeding Buffers, Limit Multitasking, Improved
Communications and Correct Measurements make them work. Goldratt
even handles the complicated statistics of dispersed variability
versus accumulated variability so deftly you won't even be aware of
learning about them - they ll just seem like more common sense!
Critical Chain is critical reading for anyone who deals with
projects. If you use block diagrams, drawings or charts to keep
track of your activities, you are managing a project - and this
book is for you.
The Choice, revised edition, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Efrat
Goldratt-Ashlag
Goldratt presents his thought provoking approach, this time
through a conversation with his daughter Efrat, as he explains to
her his fundamental system of beliefs. The revised edition includes
Efrat's own notes and maps (charts) she made during her
conversations with her father, helping the reader determine the
true essence of the book.
From the original publication:
TOC has been successfully applied in almost every area of human
endeavor, from industry to healthcare to education. And while Eli
Goldratt is indeed a scientist, an educator and a business leader,
he is first and foremost a philosopher; some say a genius.
He is a thinker who provokes others to do the same. Often
characterized as unconventional, and always stimulating a slayer of
sacred cows Dr. Goldratt exhorts his readers to examine and
reassess their lives and business practices by cultivating a
different perspective and a clear new vision.
After reading the newspapers and following the sharp oscillations
of the stock market, it becomes apparent that hi-tech companies are
of a different breed. Never before have the chances of making a
fortune been so realistic and never before have large companies
been so fragile. What is really going on inside these hi-tech
companies? What types of pressures and challenges are they facing?
And how do they cope? Computer software providers, especially the
ones that specialise in handling the data needs of organizations,
are prime examples of these volatile companies. In the nineties we
witnessed their growth from small businesses into multi-billion
dollar giants. No wonder investors were attracted. In 1998 it was
easy for such companies to raise as much money as they wanted. But
now, investment funds have dried up. Why? And more importantly, is
there a way to reverse the trend? This book gives the answers.
This fast-paced business novel does for project management what The
Goal and It's Not Luck have done for production and marketing.
Goldratt's novels have traditionally slain sacred cows and
delivered new ways of looking at processes which seem like common
sense once you read them. Critical Chain is no exception. In
perhaps Eli's most readable book yet, two of the established
principles of project management, the engineering estimate and
project milestones, are found wanting and dismissed, and other
established principles are up for scrutiny - as Goldratt once more
applies his Theory of Constraints. The approach is radical, yet
clear, understandable and logical. New techniques are introduced,
and Project Buffers, Feeding Buffers, Limit Multitasking, Improved
Communications and Correct Measurements make them work. Goldratt
even handles the complicated statistics of dispersed variability
versus accumulated variability so deftly you won't even be aware of
learning about them - they ll just seem like more common sense!
Critical Chain is critical reading for anyone who deals with
projects. If you use block diagrams, drawings or charts to keep
track of your activities, you are managing a project - and this
book is for you.
There has been a shift of policy at board level. Cash is needed and
Alex Rogo's companies are to be put on the block. Alex faces a
cruel dilemma. If he successfully completes the turnaround of his
companies they can be sold for the maximum return: if he fails they
will be closed down. Either way Alex and his team will be out of
work. It looks like lose-lose, both for Alex and for his team. And
as if he doesn't have enough to deal with, his two children have
become teenagers. As Alex grapples with problems at work and at
home, we begin to understand the full scope of Eli Goldratt's
powerful techniques. It's Not Luck reveals more of the Thinking
Process-techniques that consistently produce win-win solutions to
seemingly impossible problems.
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