Key Insights from "What is this Thing Called Theory of Constraints and how Should it be Implemented?"
- The Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a management philosophy that views any manageable system as being limited in achieving more of its goals by a very small number of constraints.
- TOC uses a focusing process to identify the constraint and restructure the rest of the organization around it.
- One of the central ideas of TOC is that every organization actually has very few true constraints. These constraints are typically referred to as bottlenecks.
- The goal of TOC is to manage the bottlenecks...