Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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!

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.

Rick Silver unterrichtet einen Kurs zum Projektmanagement. Hier trifft er auf ein Manager-Team, das den Auftrag hat, die Produkt entwicklungszeiten wesentlich zu verkürzen. In einem schwierigen und spannenden Prozess entwickeln sie gemeinsam die Projekt management-Methode der Kritischen Kette, die im Vergleich mit herkömmlichen Methoden ein deutlich effizienteres Projektmanagement erlaubt. Mit ihr lassen sich Projekte besser planen und früher fertig stellen, da Unterbrechungen weitestgehend aus geschlossen werden. Durch ständige Kontrolle während des Projekts kann auch auf unerwartete Engpässe reagiert werden. Das Team wird sich damit am Ende einen entscheidenden Konkurrenzvorteil erarbeitet haben. Aber auch für alle anderen Projektmanager der Welt ist die Kritische Kette der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

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.

De Eli Goldratt la revista Fortune dijo que es un gur del mundo empresarial y Business Week lo calific como un genio. La meta es una novela gil y cautivante, que transcurre en el mundo de los negocios, a trav s de una entretenida narraci n describe un m todo infalible para mejorar los resultados de la empresa. En esta obra se desarrolla la teor a de las restricciones, un hallazgo del autor, que atraviesa todas las dificultades, dudas y errores que pueden interponerse durante su aplicaci n, y las correspondientes soluciones. El escenario de La meta es una f brica, pero las ideas, la forma de pensar y abordar los problemas que propone aqu el autor ?como lo atestiguan los distintos entrevistados por David Whitford y podr an hacerlo miles de ejecutivos de todo el mundo que pusieron en pr ctica sus consejos? son eficaces en cualquier tipo de organizaci n.

Detta är en bok i romanform om hur man kan öka effektivitet och lönsamhet inom tillverkningsindustrin. Den gavs ut i Sverige första gången 1986 och kommer här i en reviderad utgåva. Boken kan användas som kurslitteratur och är då en handbok i produktionsteknik.

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 Race is an unusual book. Its messages can be grasped simply by looking through the graphics. It can be understood better by reading the accompanying text. It is even more deeply grasped and useful when manufacturing people at all levels discuss its implications and application to their own environment. The Race enables you to derive a superior system - Drum-Buffer-Rope - for generating continual logistical improvements. It also illustrates how to focus on the process improvements that will have the greatest impact on your competitive edge. The epilogue and appendix quizzes will give the thoughtful reader insight in how to initiate and then extend a process of ongoing improvement into other areas like marketing and financial control.

I romanform beskriver och vidarutvecklar här författaren de idéer och metoder kring problemlösning och företagsledning vilkas grundläggande tankeprocesser han presenterade i miljonsäljaren "Målet".

Learn more about the powerful techniques first presented in the best-selling novel The Goal. In this book, Dr. Goldratt, through examples in a variety of industries, shows how to apply TOC to sales and marketing, inventory control, and production distribution. In addition, techniques in conflict resolution are introduced on both a business and personal level.