The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
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Book Reviews of The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Book Review: The Goal
Summary: 5 Stars
I think we can all relate to this story, it's about how a newly appointed plant manager Alex Rogo is having all kinds of difficulties at work, the company is loosing money and he is also having problems in his personal life due to the long hours.
Alex realizes ha has to make some changes, and he thinks of a friend who helps him to find the solution to his problems.
The main idea is to accomplish something based in a goal, having in mind that the goal is money. All of this is accomplish not telling him what to do, but by making him think, by asking him questions. Understanding the basic elements for a company, elements such as throughput, inventory, and operational expense. Money has to flow at all times.
I think the story is great, I really like they way explain what Theory Of Constraints and how we can apply it to our real life problems. How we first acknowledge the cause and effect, and the thinking of the process. Over all I learn the importance of thinking.
Book Review: Time to change your view and thinking
Summary: 5 Stars
If your organization/plant faces the classic problem of Quality, Cost & Delivery: "why can't we consistently get a quality product out the door on time at the cost that can beat the competition?" or if you have a plant manager who is "always promoting some new thing he's doing, and most of the time what he's doing isn't any different from the things everyone else is doing", then you better read this book and make others to read it as well.
This book introduced the Theory of Constraints to the world of business and has made its way to B-Schools as a textbook. Eliyahu Goldratt has done an excellent job in explaining his theory using a novel-style writing. It is a story of a struggling plant manager to improve his plant's performance and save it from closure. The expert in this story provoked the main character to "derive his solutions by supplying the question marks instead of exclamation marks".
Recommended read for every professional in manufacturing.
Book Review: Goal Achieved!
Summary: 5 Stars
Stories are one of the best ways to teach. Eliyahu Goldratt is a master at weaving a tale to teach a crucial concept in manufacturing.
The Goal is the story of locating bottlenecks and streamlining a manufacturing line. The story is full of twists and turns, a super consultant named Jonah who speaks in riddles and a cast of believable characters. To make the story even more believable it is spiced with real life problems at home that our hero Alex must solve simultaneously while he is desperately trying to save the plant he is responsible for from closing down.
Goldratt is on a mission to take manufacturing form an art to a science and this is his way of doing just that. The book is well worth the time for anyone interested in using critical thinking and common sense to solve manufacturing problems. Highly recommended!
The Re-Discovery of Common Sense: A Guide to: The Lost Art of Critical Thinking
Book Review: Best Business novel that you can't put down.
Summary: 5 Stars
I was assigned this book as part of my Operations and Supply Chain Management course in MBA. I must admit it was refreshing to see a business book that didn't feel like a text book. It's a great book. Business lessons conveyed in a plain and simple real life scenarios. Anyone who is interested in running a business, executing a project or simply managing a household can benefit from this book. Once you start you simply can't put it down. Goldratt has done an awesome job with this book.
After reading this book, whenever I hit a roadblock in any of my projects, my brain starts on 5 steps starting with what is the constraint and how do I relieve it. I don't manage a factory, rather some high tech projets in avionics industry. And I feel lucky having read this book.
Reetu Gupta
An engineer with great bias for action.
Book Review: Louis Fabricio Bermeo - IME 415 For Dr. Phil Rosenkrantz
Summary: 5 Stars
The Goal by Goldratt is a good read. I tried to read Deming in the past and even though he is a management genius his book put me to sleep at times, but the Goal was great! Half soap opera and half management, it held my interest while delivering the goods. Bottlenecks, excess inventories, and a management that wont shut up about "efficiency" reports make Mr. Rogo's life hell. In the end common sense and Industrial Engineering techniques prevail and Alex, along with his staff, learn to depend on themselves for solutions. They become their own guru's and no physicist is needed. So it is a great book that any management bound/engineering individual must read. I will finish off with a beloved quote from the book, " Do not let common practice replace common sense." That may not be the exact quote, but that is how I remember it. Thank you.