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Featured today November 6th, 2015

Am I on my own?
If you want to introduce your colleagues to TOC, what do you do?
Implementing TOC as a Holistic Approach
Dr. Goldratt shares his analysis of what prevents companies from taking actions shown in The Goal
Understanding TOC Concepts
Decisive Competitive Edge - A significant sustainable market advantage over competitors
The Roadmap for Creating a Decisive Competitive Edge
For Consumer Goods and Project Based Environments
Significantly improve YOUR personal effectiveness
Goldratt Thinking Process Jonah Workshops in 2016

Am I on my own? by Martin Powell

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In Eli Goldratt’s last ever public seminar, he asked the audience (as he often did) “Who has read my book – The Goal?”  He then says “About 80%. So now a different question. How many of you had the courage to implement it? Ah, about 15%. So let me pick a person at random. Have we ever met or spoken before?” The man in the audience says “No”.

Eli continues “Did you get results?” The man answers that he did; he applied the ideas into a financial services business, dramatically reducing lead times and improving performance. He also states that he got a pay rise and a new corner office!

Eli makes the point that this is typical – anyone who really tried got results. He also makes the point that it takes courage. Courage is definitely a necessity but is it sufficient?

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Implementing TOC as a Holistic Approach

by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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The common sense found in the pages of the best selling book The Goal is the foundation of the Theory of Constraints (TOC). Silver bullets do exist. TOC brings fast and significant results, and with such silver bullets there also comes a natural resistance from the prevailing culture.

Listen as Dr. Goldratt shares his analysis of what prevents companies from taking actions shown in The Goal, and HOW by implementing TOC as a holistic approach this can be overcome and major benefits can be achieved.

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Understanding TOC Concepts

Building and Capitalizing on a Decisive Competitive Edge - Becoming an ever-flourishing Company

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The goal of TOC is to bring companies to become ever flourishing – a company which continuously and significantly increases value for shareholders, customers and security to employees. Companies must find the silver bullets to achieve such objectives. Building, capitalizing and sustaining a Decisive Competitive Edge (DCE) is the key. But how do we find such silver bullets? How do we build a decisive competitive edge and how do we sell it? The Theory of Constraints provides the answers to these mind-bugling questions.

The TOC Dictionary provides the following definition:


Decisive Competitive Edge (DCE)
A significant sustainable market advantage over competitors.

Usage: A DCE exists only if an organization satisfies a significant market need to an extent that no significant competitor can. In many situations, competitors are unaware of the problems their industry or the conventional mode of operation creates for their customers. An examination of the problems the industry creates for its customer is the starting point for identifying a potential DCE. Price is never considered a DCE. Availability, inventory turns, or reliability are potential retailer‘s significant needs and can be turned into a DCE.

A DCE is similar to the traditional concept of competitive advantage but differs in the mechanisms used to identify the DCE. The DCE is identified through an analysis of customer problems created by the suppliers‘ industry.

Cox III, James F., Lynn H. Boyd, Timothy T. Sullivan, Richard A. Reid, and Brad Cartier, 2012, The Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization Dictionary, Second Edition, page 42.

Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt explains HOW to find a significant market need that the company can satisfy to an extent that no significant competitor can:

Building a "blue" market strategy


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Marketing - Unrefusable Offers and Market Segmentation


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Identifying and applying the proper solution can bring companies in few years into an ever flourishing state. Dr. Goldratt masterfully explains how and where the TOC solutions fit strategically and tactically to build a decisive competitive edge:

The Gestalt of TOC


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You can find much more about the topic of “Decisive Competitive Edge” on TOC.tv:

Select Decisive Competitive Edge from the Topics Menu on TOC.tv (or click here) click here)

Strategies & Tactics for Selling a Decisive Competitive Edge

by Lisa Scheinkopf

Ellwood City Forge's Quest to Become Ever Flourishing

by Daniel Hamilton

The Roadmap for Creating a Decisive Competitive Edge
For Consumer Goods and Project Based Environments

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GST CCPM

Solution for
Project Management

  1. Setting the stage for a solution
  2. Planning
  3. Executing
  4. Capitalizing on a Decisive Competitive Edge
  5. Reaching a Viable Vision

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GST MTA

Solution for
Consumer Goods

  1. Setting the stage for a solution
  2. Keeping correct inventory levels
  3. Dealing with disruptions to flow
    that endanger availability
  4. Inventory turns selling
  5. Reaching a Viable Vision

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Significantly improve YOUR personal effectiveness

Goldratt Thinking Process Jonah Workshops in 2016

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Find the inherent simplicity in your own environment and gain the know how to implement and take advantage of it

This groundbreaking workshop is the place to:

  • Learn the Thinking Processes (TP) first hand
  • Apply the TP directly to your environment
  • Emerge with clearly defined solutions
  • Overview the strategy and tactics tree
Dr. Goldratt explains the role and importance of the Thinking Processes as the means to find and implement the inherent simplicity

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Significantly improve YOUR personal effectiveness

This hands-on workshop offers individualized training. Due to the level and quality of personal instruction required, this workshop will be led by at least TWO Instructors all the time, that are TOC Certified and bring vast knowledge and years of experience in teaching as well as using the Goldratt Thinking Processes.

Limited to 10 participants. Throughout the entire process Instructors will be able to work with each participant on a one-to-one basis and individually guide participants through their learning and application of the Thinking Processes.

The Goldratt Thinking Processes allow participants to succeed in building on intuition to significantly improve personal effectiveness!
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