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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by: Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780884271789
ISBN: 0884271781
Label: North River Press
Manufacturer: North River Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2004-07
Publisher: North River Press
Sales Rank: 591
Studio: North River Press

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A fully dramatized version of the practical guide to business in fictional form offers an ensemble cast, accompanied by sound effects and music, that reveals how businesses can enhance productivity and provide personal fulfillment. Book available.

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- Great framework for improving anything
Though geared to an industrial environment, this book teaches how to think when in need to improve processes. Makes great introductory reading for business process management professionals.

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- Extremely useful manufacturing throughput concepts
Goldratt's examination of throughput and cultural belief issues in a manufacturing environment are highly informative for anyone involved with a product slated for manufacturing. He illustrates his concepts with adeptly conceived metaphors and parables which makes grasping them much easier. In fact I would even go so far as to recommend this book to those involved in service industries, where his concepts of throughput and bottlenecks may be applied with great utility.
Additionally, on the financial side Goldratt presents models for cost of inventory which I found illuminating, although I am more concerned with the throughput side of the operation.
An excellent easy read I recommend to almost anyone in business.

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- Julie Rogo Knocks It Down One Star
Per my graduate class in quality engineering:

"Read The Goal and provide an executive summary of the book. The summary should cover the main points of the process that Mr. Rogo and his team took to turn around the plant. In addition to the summary, answer the following questions."

Part I -- Executive Summary

The problem of production has challenged human beings since they first evolved. Even hunters and gatherers had to do elementary planning to evaluate local resources and ration their prizes to assure they met the basic needs of the tribe. Moreover, gathering these basic commodities from nature -- wild game, fruits, nuts, roots, stems, berries, and so forth -- constituted only the first step of the tribal production process. A primitive division of labor within the tribe created the equivalent of an assembly line on the micro scale with hunters, gatherers, preparers, tribal ... Read More

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- Outstanding read
Great book! I couldn't put it down. Very interesting how the author used a novel to present a breakthrough business theory.

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