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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...

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...

How can you avoid becoming a bottleneck in the workplace?

In the world before bottlenecks were machines that could not keep up with the pace of other machines and completely blocked the production process. The result:...

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...

Process, enterprise 2.0, lean and agility

Summary: enterprise 2.0 has often been shown as the opposite of formal organizations and processes that have been the rule until then. What raised...

Being done with the enterprise 2.0 value discussion

Summary : many still wonder what new tools will bring to their organization and still have trouble visualizing the benefits. The reason is simple...

Efficiency, performance, constraints and things 2.0

We saw in a previous post that one of the best ways to improve performance was not to push to people to make impossible...

Enterprise 2.0 : my predictions for 2009

Honestly I was not sure I would conform to the annual predictions tradition. Finally, since my 2008 edition was not that bad (shift from...

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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