Name: The Goal
ISBN: 9780566086656

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Jeff Cox

Written in a fast-paced thriller style, 'The Goal' contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints developed by the author.

A Process of Ongoing Improvement

The Goal

Over 2 million copies sold! Used by thousands of companies and hundreds of business schools! Required reading for anyone in the Theory of Constraints. This book, which introduces the Theory of Constraints, is changing how America does business. The Goal is a gripping, fast-paced business novel about overcoming the barriers to making money. You will learn the fundamentals of identifying and solving the problems created by constraints. From the moment you finish the book you will be able to start successfully addressing chronic productivity and quality problems.

Nick Gracilla

Yes, there’s a dreadful personal storyline, with stiff characters seemingly flown in from Atlas Shrugged. And yes, it’s a business book written in that dreadful narrative style. Yet, for anyone interested in business process improvement, or the intellectual history behind Agile/Lean/Kanban software development, this classic sets out the theory of constraints in an imaginative, engaging method. Recommended.

Pratul

Fantastic ideas and very thought provoking... But quite average on the novel/story facet. Almost seems unnecessary to present the ideas in such a fashion.

Pedro Giménez

Recomendado. Una buena —y corta— novela que nos brinda valiosas cápsulas de conocimiento sobre los sistemas de producción, envueltas en una entretenida historia —con romance incluido— sobre el manager de una planta con problemas para satisfacer las necesidades de sus clientes —y de su esposa.

Lo que más me ha gustado del libro es que emplea el método socrático para hacernos razonar sobre el funcionamiento del sistema de producción y los diferentes sistemas que lo componen.

En definitiva, es un libro genial para la mesita de noche: no es una novela vacía de contenido y no necesita una lectura muy activa.

Ricardo

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Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. Described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a 'genius', Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an internationally recognized leader in the development of new business management concepts and systems. This 20th anniversary edition includes a series of detailed case study interviews by David Whitford, Editor at Large, Fortune Small Business, which explore how organizations around the world have been transformed by Eli Goldratt's ideas. The story of Alex's fight to save his plant contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed by Eli Goldratt. Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors!

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Dwight Jon Zimmerman

"Based on the business novel The goal: a process of ongoing improvement, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox."

The Goal A Process of Ongoing Improvement