About this Presentation
This presentation is a brief overview of each of the Day-to-Day Thinking Process (TP) tools along with examples, primarily from clients & students, in both personal and professional areas. While TOC for Education has provided training in these tools for children, young adults and teachers, too many of the rest us think of the TP as used only (primarily) for strategic or big problems. Learning and incorporating these tools into daily habits can help you reduce conflicts, better evaluate options and improve your overall quality of life!
What Will You Learn
To help you get the most value from this session, we’ve highlighted a few key points. These takeaways capture the main ideas and practical insights from the presentation, making it easier for you to review, reflect, and apply what you’ve learned.
The day-to-day thinking process tools can be used to reduce conflicts, evaluate options, organize, communicate, and improve the quality of life.
These tools include the negative branch reservation, transition tree, prerequisite tree, and evaporating cloud, and can be used in both personal and professional contexts.
Practicing these tools in various scenarios can help internalize them and make them easier to use in daily life.
Instructor(s)
Kathy Austin
Kathy Austin is a results-driven performance optimization leader with demonstrated experience building high-performing teams delivering multiple projects on or before the due-date, at or below budget, with full scope intact. Exceptionally skilled in project management, improving operational flows, and supply chains. Known for pro-active and strategic problem solving, and maximizing productivity, resulting in multi-million-dollar bottom-line improvements. Major in Air Force earlier in career. Core competencies include: Project Management, Operations and Logistics Leadership, Theory of Constraints/Lean Process Improvement, personal/organizational productivity. Kathy has been using/teaching/implementing Theory of Constraints since 1988, becoming a Jonah in 1989 and a Jonah’s Jonah in 1991. She has both depth and breadth of knowledge in virtually all TOC applications. Kathy has developed and taught beginner/intermediate/advanced levels of Production, Distribution, Supply Chain, Project Management, and Thinking Processes (Jonah and Day-to-Day TP tools). With Gerry Kendall, Kathy authored Advanced Multi-Project Management (2012). In 2014 she established the Operations Continuous Improvement Directorate at Delta Air Lines Inc, focused primarily on TOC and LSS across all airline operations. Kathy has been involved with TOCICO since the original meeting in Atlanta and served on the Board of Directors 2015-2018. She is currently Chair of the TOCICO Professional Development Committee.
Ms Alka Wadhwa
Alka Wadhwa is an experienced consultant and process improvement expert with over 24 years of expertise in the Theory of Constraints (TOC), Lean Six Sigma, and organizational performance optimization. She has successfully led projects in healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing, driving significant improvements such as a 67% boost in hospital operations and a 140% increase in outpatient visits.
Previously, Alka Wadhwa spent 17+ years at GE Global Research Center, where she led initiatives to enhance various GE businesses through advanced technologies, process redesign, and system optimization. Founder of Better Solutions Consulting, LLC, she specializes in using TOC, Six Sigma, and data analytics to streamline operations and build high-performance teams.
Her work has earned her multiple accolades, including the Empire State Award of Excellence in healthcare.
Dr Gary Wadhwa
Dr. Gary Wadhwa is a Board Certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon with extensive experience in the field. He completed his Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery training at Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY, and has served as an Attending at prestigious institutions like St. Peters Hospitals, Ellis Hospital, and Beth Israel Hospital in NY. With a career spanning over two decades, he was the former CEO and President of a group specialty practice in NY from 1994 to 2015. Dr. Wadhwa holds an MBA from UT at Knoxville, TN, and has undergone additional training in System Dynamics at MIT, Health System Management at Harvard Business School, and Entrepreneurship and healthcare innovations at Columbia Business School. Committed to expanding access to Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery care, he is currently engaged in a meaningful project to provide healthcare services to underserved populations in inner city and rural areas through non-profit Community Health Centers.