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Controlling the Whole Organization through the Constraint – A Systemic Approach Part 10

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Just ONE point of your organization can help you organize and manage your whole company. It’s a strategically chosen constraint. Step Five of the Decalogue Method is: Manage the constraint (protect and control the system through buffer management). No, and it doesn’t matter.

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Leading and Managing Change Effectively: It’s A Process that Includes You – A Systemic Approach Part 11

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The process of change goes through various phases, or levels of resistance that we can work through. Let’s look at the six levels of resistance to change, as identified by Goldratt in the Theory of Constraints. Level 3: Have we really thought everything through? Level 1: Disagreement about the problem.

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Improving Flow Company Wide – A Systemic Approach Part 9

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In the previous posts in this series on the Ten Steps of the Decalogue Method we looked at the way Statistical Process Control (SPC), a strategically chosen constraint and managing the constraint buffer provide us with the focus and the practical mechanism to run our organization. An example may be useful.

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What’s Wrong with Silos in Your Organization?

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It’s time for companies to update their knowledge and approach to business–what may have worked before is inadequate for the complexity all organizations face today. Unfortunately, the reality is much more complex than the simplistic, linear way of thinking about an organization as a well-structured pyramid.

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Why Complexity Impacts Your Organization

Intelligent Management Inc.

Indeed, most organizations are still based conceptually and operationally on models that are insufficient for complexity. Dividing up an organization as a traditional functional hierarchy that does not take into account the systemic nature of a company creates a series of problems. What’s wrong with silos?

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Sell More of What Your Company Does with the Resources You Already Have (External Constraint) – A Systemic Approach Part 16

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Accordingly, a successful organization must have a built-in mechanism in the way it operates that allows it to understand and satisfy the needs of the customer. We believe that the most spectacular application of the power of the Thinking Processes from the Theory of Constraints resides in addressing the market. Win–Win Sales.

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Is the Theory of Constraints Systems Thinking?

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Someone reading our business novel ‘ The Human Constraint’ asked us if the Theory of Constraints is different from Systems Thinking so we would like to address that in this post. Given Senge’s definition, we can state without any hesitation that The Theory of Constraints is Systems Thinking.

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