Positive Ways to Thrive During Waves of Change 8 doc

... the capacity of the Software Design Engineers. Finding Software Design Engineering capacity was the key to this company’s ability to increase its new product speed -to- market, and also to the company’s ... decisions. The job of every person in the organization is to enable the organization to accomplish all that its physical constraint is capable of. This is often the mo...

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... One of our projects was to help it improve one of its distribution systems. Before we began to talk about the constraints of their system, we asked the team to develop a common understanding of ... going to be?” “This is going to cost so much money!” “Are you sure you can really afford all of this?” “We’ll miss you!” I seem to recall that my brother-in-law said something...

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... practice of “being right” and trying to substantiate our claims every step of the way. I hope that you have seen a glimpse of the benefits of this type of outlook — you empower yourself to learn and to ... for any of the following: • Sales that were lost to higher priced competitors. If customers are migrating from the distributor to a higher priced source, then declining...

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... ideas. Just as professional photographers often shoot many rolls of film in order to get just a few great shots, it is helpful for us to generate lots and lots of ideas, in order to find the one ... costs. From a TOC perspective, the whole notion of allocating costs that are not totally variable to the unit of sale is considered at best a waste of time, and at worst a major ob...

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... to see in the future, but haven’t yet turned that list of good things into any sort of interconnected vision. As I write, I am in the first step of defining, with one of our clients, the type of relationship ... a larger share of the market, because it would be offering one-stop shopping to those clients, who would choose to keep their business with the company that worked wi...

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... future reality tree described the changes they decided to make to their product offering in order to alleviate many of their customers’ problems. The purpose, of course, was ultimately to increase sales and ... value of the display. 2. Customers question the value of the display. Displays cost too much. 3. Installed costs are too high from the customers’ perspective. It’s d...

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... directly. Who were they to try to change their customers’ customers’ hiring practices? They decided then to take a look at the entity the core problem combined with as it led to pertinent entity ... is a cause for more than 80 % of the pertinent entities. Figure 8. 11 Table 8. 3 123456Total % of 6 A X ————— 1 16% B XXX——— 3 50% C XX———— 2 33% D —————— 0 0% EXX—XXX 5 83 % F —...

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... impossible to be effective in our efforts to spread/use TOC unless the names of each tool describe that tool’s process because: • The tool is otherwise difficult for us to describe or for the prospect to ... their argument to me in an attempt to get me to take sides. I told them I was not going to solve it for them, but if they wanted to find a solution, I would be happy to...

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... task of improving itself: • What to change? • To what to change? • How to cause the change? Figure 11.1 illustrates the three questions surrounding change and the role that each of ... What to Change to “ To What to Change occurs during the evaporating cloud process. When you have constructed the cloud, you have completed your answer to...

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... number of reasons that will lead you to want or need to communicate the content of a current reality tree that identifies a core problem. It may be that you want to enlist the help of a colleague to develop ... of the book with multitudes of trees because I wanted to focus on process rather than the content of what others had done in the past. I tried to put myself in t...

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