"The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt

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The paper relates that in "The Goal", Eliyahu Goldratt uses the mystery novel form of literature to introduce his business theory of constraints and his ideas concerning continuous process improvement. The paper points out that in the early 1980s, when this book was written, these were radical ideas. The paper asserts that Goldratt's book is an interesting read plus it offers a great deal of information that is so basic to today's management system.

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"The plot of The Goal starts out with the plant manager Alex Rogo, who knows that his job is on the line if he does not make improvements and meet business output goals. The marketing, accounting and production departments are frequently battling it out for solutions. Jonah helps Alex identify and manage the operational problems, specifically by finding the critical bottlenecks that are determining the rate of production and developing strategies for these them. Although many in the company were fixed on updating equipment Alex's team took an old piece of machinery they received for free and increased the capacity of the N/C machine, which was one of the two found bottlenecks. At the second bottleneck, the heat-treat operation, they just moved quality control from after the process to before. This eliminated to-be-rejected inventory from losing valuable. With careful observation and constraint changes, Alex's team improved production and a successful outcome."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Goldrutt, Eliyahu. The Goal. Great Barrington, MA: North River Press, 1984.

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