Replying to LO24890 --
>And for all the approaches on ST, I found Eli Goldratt's Theory
>of Constraint the most powerful and easy to learn and teach. The approach
>not emphasis on feedbacks and delays, rather it focus on bottleneck, or in
>ST's terminology, the leverage.
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>Why don't we, as a community of practice, have more discussion on TOC,
>or other ST approaches? And if you are familiar with both TOC and ST,
>don't you think that these two method are complementary?
Dear Joey and all,
just in case you haven't noticed: I am agreeing to you for more than a
year on this list now regularily. May be you want to go a little back to
LO24855, where I chose Demings New Economics as a center for ST and Senge
and TOC as complementary practical approaches.
In The Dance of Change, on page 139-140, Art Kleiner acknowledges
Goldratts work as "The novels of Eliyahu Goldratt are like a set of open
systems glasses that help you apply more effective approaches to flows and
bottlenecks, without feeling that you are stuck in an academic
treadmill.... His books are not only valuable, but engaging, respectful,
and downright generous in their intent to educate."
Besides, I have learnt about TOC first on this very list about two years
ago.
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
P.S.: Do I need to say that I think that we deal here on the list with an
approach to ST far exceeding any other approach I know of?
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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