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The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt: another perspective on productivity

There are books that leave a lasting impression because they confirm what we already think, and then there are those that force us to think differently, to question truths we believe to be set in stone. The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt, falls into the second category. But before I go any further, let me tell you that I have a rather unusual history with this book. When I was a business school student specializing in the application of new technologies to the functioning of businesses and management (it was called "e-management"...

The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt: another perspective on productivity

There are books that leave a lasting impression because they confirm what we already think, and then there are those that force us to...

The great illusion of technological productivity gains (including AI)

For more than half a century, each technological wave has been accompanied by the same promise: to produce more, faster and at lower cost. We...

Local optimum vs. global optimum and the theory of constraints: why your productivity gains sometimes serve no purpose

Eliyahu Goldratt, although trained as a physicist, had a profound impact on industrial management with books such as The Goal (1984) and The Haystack Syndrome (1990). His contribution...

Thinking of work as a flow: appealing, but is it realistic?

There has been a lot of talk about the transformation recently announced by Moderna, which has led to the merger of HR and IT,...

Eliyahu Goldratt’s fictional interview on infobesity and bottlenecks in knowledge work

Instead of thinking vertically, I always like to see if it's possible to “steal” ideas that work in one sector or discipline and apply...

[Quote] “Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave”

"Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way... do...

[Quote] We should not expect an application to work in environments for which its assumptions are not valid

We should not expect an application to work in environments for which its assumptions are not valid Eliyahu M. Goldratt As you may have noticed, that's...

Seen, read, heard this week #1

A new column that will be weekly...or not. Will last..or not. Sometimes I read, hear, see things that are not worth a post but...

To understand enterprise 2.0 companies should learn from theory of constraints

It's funny to see how history seems to be endlessly repeating, how issues that have been fixed years ago are coming back to the...

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