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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox describes a process by which an unprofitable manufacturing operation can be made profitable. It conveys proven factory turnaround principles through a fictional story…
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- GenresBusiness
22 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 28, 2015
About the author
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
43 books732 followersEliyahu Moshe Goldratt (Hebrew: אליהו משה גולדרט) was an educator, author, physicist, philosopher and business leader, but first and foremost, he was a thinker who provoked others to think. Often characterized as unconventional, stimulating, and “a slayer of sacred cows,” he urged his audience to examine and reassess their business practices with a fresh, new vision.
Dr. Goldratt is best known as the father of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), a process of ongoing improvement that identifies and leverages a system’s constraints in order to achieve the system’s goals. He introduced TOC’s underlying concepts in his business novel, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, which has been recognized as one of the best-selling business books of all time. First published in 1984, The Goal has been updated three times and sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. It has been translated into 35 languages.
Heralded as a “guru to industry” by Fortune magazine and “a genius” by Business Week, Dr. Goldratt continued to advance the TOC body of knowledge throughout his life, building on the Five Focusing Steps (the process of ongoing improvement, known as POOGI) with TOC-derived tools such as Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and the Thinking Processes. He authored ten other TOC-related books, including four business novels: It’s Not Luck (the sequel to The Goal), Critical Chain, Necessary but Not Sufficient and Isn’t It Obvious? His last book, The Choice, was co-authored by his daughter Efrat Ashlang-Goldratt.
Born in Israel on March 31, 1947, Dr. Goldratt earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Tel Aviv University and a Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy from Bar-Ilan University. He is the founder of TOC for Education, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing TOC Thinking and TOC tools to teachers and their students, and Goldratt Consulting. In addition to his pioneering work in business management and education, Dr. Goldratt holds patents in a number of areas ranging from medical devices to drip irrigation to temperature sensors. He died on June 11, 2011, at the age of 64.
Dr. Goldratt is best known as the father of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), a process of ongoing improvement that identifies and leverages a system’s constraints in order to achieve the system’s goals. He introduced TOC’s underlying concepts in his business novel, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, which has been recognized as one of the best-selling business books of all time. First published in 1984, The Goal has been updated three times and sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. It has been translated into 35 languages.
Heralded as a “guru to industry” by Fortune magazine and “a genius” by Business Week, Dr. Goldratt continued to advance the TOC body of knowledge throughout his life, building on the Five Focusing Steps (the process of ongoing improvement, known as POOGI) with TOC-derived tools such as Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and the Thinking Processes. He authored ten other TOC-related books, including four business novels: It’s Not Luck (the sequel to The Goal), Critical Chain, Necessary but Not Sufficient and Isn’t It Obvious? His last book, The Choice, was co-authored by his daughter Efrat Ashlang-Goldratt.
Born in Israel on March 31, 1947, Dr. Goldratt earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Tel Aviv University and a Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy from Bar-Ilan University. He is the founder of TOC for Education, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing TOC Thinking and TOC tools to teachers and their students, and Goldratt Consulting. In addition to his pioneering work in business management and education, Dr. Goldratt holds patents in a number of areas ranging from medical devices to drip irrigation to temperature sensors. He died on June 11, 2011, at the age of 64.
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December 5, 2017
A sort of abbreviated version of the actual book (The Goal), a kind of Cliff’s note. If you don’t have the time to read the origins this may be a good alternative. Instaread does a very good job summarizing it, but nothing like reading the actual book.
November 4, 2015
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox/Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review by Instaread is a summary of the book co-written by Goldratt and Cox outlining through a fictionalized story the ways an unprofitable manufacturing operation can be turned around.
The key takeaways of this book are: bottlenecks are the main reason manufacturing operations fail to make a profit, and the key to mitigating bottlenecks is to identify them, take immediate action to overcome them, and, most importantly, develop blueprints to enable forecasting future bottlenecks and put procedures in place to avoid them.
Using a fictional story based on historical information the authors walk readers through the process of turning an unprofitable company around within an externally imposed deadline to prevent it being sold. Although only a summary, this Instaread book can be useful in focusing an entrepreneur’s mind in the right direction, and makes me want to read the book itself.
The key takeaways of this book are: bottlenecks are the main reason manufacturing operations fail to make a profit, and the key to mitigating bottlenecks is to identify them, take immediate action to overcome them, and, most importantly, develop blueprints to enable forecasting future bottlenecks and put procedures in place to avoid them.
Using a fictional story based on historical information the authors walk readers through the process of turning an unprofitable company around within an externally imposed deadline to prevent it being sold. Although only a summary, this Instaread book can be useful in focusing an entrepreneur’s mind in the right direction, and makes me want to read the book itself.
November 7, 2015
This read has 10 very well defined and detailed key takeaways from the book The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. It discusses everything from how to overcome obstacles such as bottlenecking to the most important goal of any operation. I feel like it can stand alone because of the detail that is provided. It delivered more than I expected.
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