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Dealing with the nursing shortage: An overview of how the Rio Grande Valley successfully employed the concepts of TOC to increase the throughput of locally trained nurses and allied health professionals
CourseIn 2001, RGV hospitals, higher education institutions, and NGOs collaborated to outline training for nursing and allied health in the Rio Grande Valley. This led to the RGV Allied Health Training Alliance and a centralized clinical scheduling system.
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Reaching the goal
CourseDr. Goldratt explores how goals and success are defined/measured in for-profit vs. for-purpose organizations. He notes that objectives can form a "circle of identicals" and warns that quantified measures often overshadow non-quantified ones.
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Standing on the shoulders of giants
CourseThe presentation details industry evolution ("standing on the shoulders" of Whitney, Ford, Ohno) and explains the four flow concepts that form the basis of Ford's assembly line and Ohno's Toyota Production System.
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MLIT presentation
CourseGoldratt criticized MLIT's use of critical chain for failing to achieve a 25% project lead time reduction. He emphasized 3 project steps (choose/design/execute) using thinking processes, noting task buffering as the biggest waste.
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Lessons learned: The power of cause-and-effect and TOC = focus
CourseGoldratt argued that the perceived reduction in demand for electronic chips was a mirage, resulting in massive layoffs. Key takeaway: always use a global (supply chain) view and cause-and-effect logic.
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The foundation of the theory of constraints: What is theory of constraints?
CourseGoldratt discusses the Theory of Constraints (TOC), its evolution from throughput accounting (1981) to critical chain (1986), the five focusing steps (1987), and the thinking processes (TP) (1989-1992) for identifying core problems.
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