The theory of constraints, developed by Dr. Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt in the 1980s, identifies factors preventing your company from reaching its goals. The theory measures operational performance in key ...

Problem solving in business, in general, and marketing, in particular, is a complex process that generally requires the input of many with all seeing different sides of the same problem. Within the ...

In today's competitive global economic marketplace, manufacturers are struggling to squeeze out 5% to 7% operational cost reductions. The reality is startling. If a plant is not consistently improving ...

Business guru Eliyahu M. Goldratt, in his 1984 book The Goal, presents a paradigm shift in management philosophy with the Theory of Constraints. This theory views any manageable system as constrained ...

One of the most influential books on management is a work of fiction. Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s 1984 business novel, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, introduced a new way of looking at ...

The Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a business theory introduced by Wolfgang Mewes (a German business economist), which was then further proliferated in the United States by Eliyahu M. Goldratt in his ...

Counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems (commonly referred to as #CSP) form a foundational framework in computational complexity theory by addressing the challenge of enumerating all possible ...

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