TOCICO

Why aren’t there many known long duration successful TOC implementations? Even standard, from “The Book” implementations yield results that are coveted today and benefit the organizations involved. And this lack of evidence cannot be attributed to lack of successful TOC implementations, the sheer amount of cases, quotes, articles, etc. demonstrate clearly that these are common. If there are a number of successful TOC implementations reported and a few long term successes reported that can be attributed either by a tendency of not revealing the success after a while or a disengaging of the TOC implementations. If an organization was open enough in the beginning to report the TOC implementation success it is not unlikely that the same organization will report it in the future. So we’re left with a disengaging of the TOC implementation. And if this is the case the number of successful TOC implementations that either fade, fail or revert point towards a systemic cause that prevents POOGI from taking root and flourishing. In this presentation we’ll explore the cause and effect that leads to such a situation and we’ll present a probable systemic cause, validate it with predicted effects and then proceed to analyze 3 real cases. The 3 cases presented can be even considered successful from the point of view of the organizations, but yielded (after a while) poor results compared to what could be expected compared with similar TOC cases. there is a clear law of diminishing returns effect present, what should not be seen if there was a healthy POOGI process in place. In each case we’ll present the core cloud that explains the slowing down and eventual halt of the TOC activities and derive the generic core cloud of this problem. After the erroneous assumption is surfaced and challenged and a new solution is presented along with its future reality. A process is also suggested to prevent this kind of fate from happening to TOC implementations based on the solution proposed.