Key Insights from 'The Goal - A Process of Ongoing Improvement'
- The Theory of Constraints (TOC): The primary principle upon which the book is built, TOC posits that any system, regardless of how complex, is limited in achieving its goals by a very small number of constraints.
- Identifying the Bottlenecks: The book emphasizes the importance of identifying and addressing the bottlenecks (constraints) within a system as a way to improve overall performance.
- The Five Focusing Steps: A systematic process to identify and eliminate constraints, which includes identifying the system's constraint, deciding how to exploit the constraint, subordinating everything else...