The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement Book

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by: Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox

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Average Rating: Rating: - The goal is about the objective of any company: Making Money I had to read this book as a part of my Integrated Manufacturing and Control Systems in my Industrial Engineering PHD program. The book is great. This book is a must to read for: 1. All Industrial Engineers with management ambitions. 2. Middle and Upper Management A lot of companies had already given this book to their staff to read. The book is a nice story that you can be read in less than a week (spending couple of hours every night before you go to bed). It is written in a very simple language. What "The Goal" talks about is a simple and obvious problem: Make Money by starting with eliminating bottlenecks and reducing batch sizes. Unfortunately we are in 2003 right now and lot of companies still measure the performance of their plants based on efficiency and employee utilization and not on how much money they make. For the old school people to see a worker idle is a disaster in manufacturing but to have him over producing is a good thing, "The Goal" explain why this situation may not be a disaster and may actually be a good thing. After you finish reading this book if are a middle manager or upper management you should start reading "It's Not Luck",. Rating: - Fascinating I just read the book from cover to cover last night. Odd that a book covering manufacturing plant management should be so gripping but it was! It is rare to find such a book in 'novel' format, but Goldratt has managed it, and managed it well. By forcing the main character to work through his plant management issues rather than simply spouting advice, you get a better understanding of the thought process behind his Theory of Constraints while simultaneously being absorbed in the storyline wanting to see the 'hero' persevere and win through his troubles. By engaging several other people in his plant, we are simultanteously shown alternative perspectives on plant dynamics that brings a clearer picture of the problems being tackled, especially to someone with limited experience in the field. Throughout the book the examples are kept relatively simple, and jargon free, which was a refreshingly down-to-earth presentation of management principles which can doubltess be applied to many other scenarios far beyond a manufacturing plant. Rating: - Novel Ideas About Process Improvement Goldratt has been an especially prolific author in recent years. This is the first of three books; the others are It's Not Luck (1997) and Critical Chain (1997). He wrote this book with Jeff Cox, author of Zapp!: The Lightening of Empowerment: How to Improve Quality, Productivity, and Employee Satisfaction. All decision-makers in organizations (regardless of their size or nature) are constantly preoccupied with improving cycle time, first pass yield and on-time delivery inorder to increase productivity and thereby increase profits. Many of them, perhaps, have a difficult time grasping the core concepts of process improvement systems such as Six Sigma. Goldratt has written a novel in which he provides an analysis of those concepts as applied in a fictional company. He has a cast of characters, a plot, and a context. He relies heavily on dialogue to advance the narrative. As in any other well-written novel, The Goal examines issues in dispute which create conflicts. Ultimately they are resolved, albeit somewhat too neatly. Although of greatest relevance to manufacturing companies, Goldratt's Theory of Constraints (with appropriate modifications) can also be of substantial value to other companies with "bottlenecks" which also delay and often disrupt a process of some kind. Those who share my high regard for this book are urged to read Goldratt's other two; also, to check out David Mistress Practice What You Preach and David Whyte's The Heart Aroused. With all due respect to the core concepts of process improvement, they are worthless unless and until embraced by everyone in the given workforce. Master and Whyte can help managers to achieve that "buy in."

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