Theory of Constraints

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• TOC Financial Model for Whole Business ROI Optimisation

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 126
  Im no Chartered Accountant.  And Im convinced that most accountants live in fantasy land just like most EU socialist politicians (had to vent that one) Yet management accounts are important for senior management to control top line and bottom line growth. And as a Marketer, thats the kind of accounting Im ...
  4 hours ago

• How To Create A Mafia Offer

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 126
  First, a Mafia Offer is a value proposition that: your market category finds compelling possibly to the point of disbelief, and your competitors are incapable of competing against it. Is such a thing possible? Sure, it doesnt say that you will capture 100% of your market, but developing a Mafia Offer makes ...
  5 days ago

• TOC Marketing

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 126
  The best kept secret breakthrough in marketing and business strategy is… (drum roll) TOC Marketing. Or in full: Theory of Constraints Marketing. Listen. If business growth is important to you, this may be your greatest discovery for 2010. Let me explain: Marketers are misunderstood. And its their own fault. ...
  5 days ago

• Discussing Theory of Constraints in Service Based Organizations

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 126
  In a Linked-in thread on TOC in Services , Richard said: "…how would one apply ToC to an organization where it is project and service-based, but almost all of the services on any given "project" are handled by a single resource (a consultant)? This would be similar to CC, but then there is the need to manage ...
  1 week ago

• A Little more on applying Little’s Law to Lean your Marketing!

  
  Business901 — Authority: 424
  In a previous post, I transformed Little’s Law to marketing utilizing this formula: Marketing Cycle Time = Customers in Process / Closed Sales. I would like to simplify this formula and change the nomenclature a little. I think more accurately it should be called Sales and Marketing Process Time(SMPT) = Prospects ...
  3 weeks ago

• Agile Tour 2009 retrospective

  
  Thinking for a Change — Authority: 92
  Agile Tour Besançon and Lille 2009 This year, I participated in two stops of the Agile Tour in France: Besançon and Lille . In Besançon I presented the “ Résoudre les Conflits sans Compromis “. In Lille I presented the “ A l’aide! Mon processus m’étrangle “. The participants of the Conflict ...
  4 weeks ago

• Balanced Score Card and Theory Of Constraints

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 126
  "One approach to [measuring business performance] is called balanced scorecard. This proposed solution falls into the trap of trying to measure many, many things. It violates the objective… that when we measure many things, there will be some things that will look good and others that look bad. Depending upon ...
  4 weeks ago

• Theory Of Constraints For Sales Management

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 126
  Notes from the book The Cash Machine by Klapholz and Klarman The market for our products is expanding… but we simply are not there to take advantage of that fact. We have a healthy growing market. We have assembled the best possible people. The management team is improvement-driven and, relatively speaking, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Resolve a Conflict in 6 easy and 1 difficult step

  
  Thinking for a Change — Authority: 92
  Tried Out When presenters propose sessions for XP Days Benelux , we always recommend they try out their session, as many times as possible. We should all know the power of iteration and feedback. You need some time to get it right. If you’re slow like me, you might need years to get it right. The first tryout ...
  4 weeks ago

• Resolve Conflicts without Compromise at XP Days Benelux

  
  Thinking for a Change — Authority: 92
  I present the “ Resolve Conflicts without compromise ” with Jef Cumps at the XP Days Benelux conference on November 24th. Bring a conflict to the session and come out of the session with several ideas to turn this conflict into a win-win situation. If you don’t have any conflicts, you can learn how to help ...
  5 weeks ago

• Theory Of Constraints Cartoon Demonstration

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 126
  Just found a great cartoon demo which explains some of the basic principles of the Theory of Constraints. If youre not familiar with TOC, and involved with strategy development, marketing strategy, project management, or just plain old management, you should make this a learning priority. (I dont just mean just ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Unrefusable Mafia Offer for Marketing

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 126
  My experience of working in corporate environments including on several senior management teams exactly matches the poignancy that Eli Goldratt makes about marketing… In most companies today, you will not find marketing. Instead, you find a host of tasks such as sales support, sales training, advertising, ...
  5 weeks ago

• Viable Vision: Transforming Total Sales into Net Profits

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 126
  Notes from the awesome stragetic management book called Viable Vision by Gerald Kendall. Most companies do not appear to have the correct roadmap to their vision. A smart person learns from his or her mistakes. A wise person learns from other people’s mistakes. Common sense is not very common – Mark Twain ...
  5 weeks ago

• Bottleneck Game at Agile Tour Lille 2009

  
  Thinking for a Change — Authority: 92
  I present the Bottleneck Game at Agile Tour Lille on October 30th 2009. Come and play to discover the Theory of Constraints and the “Five Focusing Steps” to really improve processes. Experience how and why Agile, Lean and Real Options work.
  5 weeks ago

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