In-House TOC Training
It can be difficult to execute on strategy, especially when it involves significant change from the current way of doing things. Custom education programs serve as a foundation to plan and build consensus for improvements initiatives that can shape the success and future of your organization.
The Theory of Constraints Institute creates programs that combine the right experts with engaging learning methods to suit your objectives, people and budget.
Interventions generally address the top team along with other key stakeholders who together hold the key to unlocking new levels of performance. This group typically might include Owner(s) and/or CEO as well as Department Heads such as Operations, Marketing, Sales, Planning, Procurement, Quality, Engineering, Finance, IT, HR, etc. Through the eyes of their collective knowledge, experience and wisdom, unique insights are born and seemingly intractable problems become less intimidating and more easily solvable.
The Theory of Constraints Institute creates programs that combine the right experts with engaging learning methods to suit your objectives, people and budget.
Interventions generally address the top team along with other key stakeholders who together hold the key to unlocking new levels of performance. This group typically might include Owner(s) and/or CEO as well as Department Heads such as Operations, Marketing, Sales, Planning, Procurement, Quality, Engineering, Finance, IT, HR, etc. Through the eyes of their collective knowledge, experience and wisdom, unique insights are born and seemingly intractable problems become less intimidating and more easily solvable.
Popular Programs & Approximate Duration
- Introduction to TOC: Introduction to the Five Focusing Steps with an overview of the TOC Applications, 4 Pillars and Thinking Processes (3 hours)
- Delivering On-time Every Time: how to schedule production, control operations and improve continuously for a make-to-order (MTO) environment using WIP boards and/or simplified drum-buffer-rope to ensure on-time in-full due date performance. This module can also be adapted for Purchase-to-Order (PTO) or mixed MTO/MTS environments 9 hours + optional business coaching)
- Increasing Availability Without Increasing Inventory: how to eliminate stockout across the supply chain, without excessive safety stocks, obsolescence, carrying costs, etc. The reliable rapid replenishment concept applies equally well to procurement, production and distribution. Also useful in the design of the overall supply chain. (9 hours + optional business coaching)
- Increasing Output Without CapEx & Headcount: how to manage capacity and buffers to boost output without undergoing the cost or disruption of major capital expenses (6 hours + optional business coaching)
- Increasing Sales Without Discounting Price: how to grow sales while ensuring stability through the development of an unrefusable "mafia offer" value proposition, value selling and funnel management (12 hours workshop + optional coaching)
- Evaporating the Cash Constraint: how to emerge quickly from a cash crunch so severe that your organization's future is in jeopardy (6 hours + optional business coaching)
- Delivering Projects On-time Without Compromising Scope or Budget - how to accelerate your project pipeline using ODSC (Objectives, Deliverables and Success Criteria), Project Flow Diagrams (PFD), Project Portfolio Management, WIP Boards and/or Critical Chain Project Management (12 hours + optional business coaching)
- Thinking Process Boot Camp - how to eliminate conflicts, manage change and plan for implementation success using the TOC Thinking Processes including UnDesirable Effects (UDE), Evaporating Clouds, surfacing assumptions, challenging assumptions and Intermediate Objectives Mapping (10 hours workshop + regular homework with expert feedback)
- Decision Making for Business Value: 12 hour workshop helps managers create greater value through a clearer understanding of the constraint and applied understanding of throughput accounting for a variety of simulated and real situations (12 hours workshop)
- TOC Advanced Management Program: 5 month intervention covering most of the above aspects in a holistic fashion
Flexible Modalities
The above topics are popular for executives and mid-to-senior level participants, but can also be tailored to address large audiences and/or conduct train-the-trainer exercises to build internal capabilities for scaling up training across all levels.
Programs and workshops can be conducted face-to-face, online or in blended mode. We recommend online training because it can be delivered in relatively smaller doses, which permit time and space for evaluation, application and reflection/insights.
Its not so much about what the team learns, it's about what the team succeeds in doing with their learning...
Programs and workshops can be conducted face-to-face, online or in blended mode. We recommend online training because it can be delivered in relatively smaller doses, which permit time and space for evaluation, application and reflection/insights.
Its not so much about what the team learns, it's about what the team succeeds in doing with their learning...
Our Approach
We carry on Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt’s life purpose “to teach the world to think" by
- Asking focused questions and nurturing purposeful inquiry
- Identifying and eliminating harmful assumptions
- Inspiring decisive action that improves overall performance SIGNIFICANTLY