TOC Innovation Summit 2023

Using TOC to restart, sell and stabilize Allied Healthcare Products during bankruptcy.

Allied Healthcare Products, facing closure, executed a turnaround using TOC and a 363 bankruptcy sale. They retained employees, secured a $2.5M loan, and were sold to Flexicare for over $8.5M, ensuring job retention and creditor payouts.

Hans Rosling and Eli Goldratt: Best Friends that Never Met

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Presentation by Humberto combining Eli Goldratt's techniques for clear thinking and Hans Rosling's work on using correct facts for decision-making. It covers obstacles to clear thinking and strategies to overcome them.

What are the unique insights from Theory of Constraints to make reliable commitments and better decisions

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Theory of Constraints (TOC) has 4 key principles: 1) One/Few Constraints limit system performance, 2) Focus improvements on exploiting constraints, 3) Don't ignore constraints when making commitments, & 4) Constraint allocation matters.

“Slow down, to Speed Up Your Program ie Multitasking is Bad, Variable Scope is OK.

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Robert led the Concurrent Deal Implementation Project for a major Australian bank's Pinnacle Program. The case study shows how Clarity, multi-tasking reduction, and TaskFlow successfully addressed variable scope challenges during the transformation.

Sustainable Self-Improvement The Importance of Applying Goldratt’s Thinking Tools in One’s Personal Life

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Lauren's presentation applies TOC and Goldratt's Thinking Processes to personal life to drive sustainable innovation in individuals and organizations. Mastering these tools personally improves professional problem-solving.

Community-based TOC: An Innovative Solution to the Healthcare Supply Chain Wicked Problem

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Rising HCSC costs are linked to local optima and new tech. Healthcare is a "wicked problem." This presentation offers simple, non-TOC guidelines, focusing on outpatient settings, to improve individual links and synchronize the supply chain.

Human-AI Collaboration in TOC: Enhancing Goldratt's Thinking Processes with AI

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The presentation discusses merging AI (GPT) with Goldratt's Thinking Processes (TOC) to boost decision-making. It promotes collaboration, utilizing AI's speed alongside human insight for significant results.

Turning Around Africa’s Largest Coal Mine Mine & Fundamentals of Flow Masterclass

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Sanjeev Gupta presents a case study on Vulcan, operator of the Moatize Coal Mine and a Vulcan International subsidiary. Discover how Vulcan increased profits at a $2.5B mining company by 50%, despite commodity price drops.

TOC and Project Management - other than Critical Chain!

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Beyond Critical Chain scheduling, this presentation discusses other contributions of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) to project management, and vice-versa.

Breakthrough Performance Results and How We Achieved Them

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Thomson Press, established in 1967, is a leading Indian commercial printer that leveraged Theory of Constraints (TOC) principles for a robust operational turnaround. Profits rose 292%, throughput 41%, and sales 29%.

Lessons in Synchronous Flow: The Dice Game

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Workshop on Lessons in Synchronous Flow (The Dice Game) introduces Drum-Buffer-Rope techniques to improve operational performance, covering metrics like throughput, profitability, inventory, and lead-time through simulation.

Working Capital Productivity A Metric To Exploit Cash Constraint

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Working Capital Productivity (WCP), developed in 2002 for a Semiconductor company facing a cash crunch, is an output/input metric. It ranks products based on return on cash when cash is the constraint, optimizing for cash efficiency.

Can Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes be Fully Automated by Artificial Intelligence?

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AI advancements automate Theory of Constraints (TOC) Thinking Processes, combining ChatGPT with TOC, TRIZ, and cloud formulation for creative problem-solving. This includes Strategy and Tactics Trees, the Change Matrix, risks, and TOC ethics.

High Performance Culture with TOC

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WiseTech used Theory of Constraints (TOC) Thinking Processes since 2006 to grow from 50 people in Australia to a global logistics software leader with 3000+ staff, 18,000 customers in 180 countries, achieving growth with minimal management/hierarchy.

Innovation: Implementing Critical Chain the BAE Systems Way

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Discover the remarkable progress and journey of BAE in achieving sustainable improvements. The presentation will showcase BAE's impactful efforts, measures for lasting positive change, and successful approach to sustainable transformation.

Using TOC Replenishment to Make Your ERP System Work for You

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Many ERP implementations fail to deliver operational improvements. Use TOC Replenishment inventory methodology in your existing ERP system for quick operational improvements without new system implementation or CAPEX. Attend our session!

So, you think you know?

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Most people underutilize the Thinking Processes (TP). James will discuss how WiseTech refines and extends the TP, learned from COGITA and ViAGO, to support hypergrowth, addressing its incomplete nature.

How North Dakota Achieved Its Strategic IT Goals Using TOC

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Shawn Riley and Alfredo Mycue discuss the transformation of NDIT from a traditional agency to an advanced IT department under Shawn's leadership, using Theory of Constraints to achieve ambitious goals like telework during COVID and adopting AI.

The elusive nature of double-digit growth

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The B2B vendor-customer relationship changed from a direct revenue model (Prince Castle, 1954) to a loosely coupled one (Xerox, 1959). Many sales departments misunderstand this shift, leading to bad decisions and hindering growth.

Thinking Sharper with AI Using Large Language Models to Improve Logical Qualitative Analysis

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LLMs like ChatGPT make AI practical for qualitative reasoning, helping with logic trees to save time, improve logical connections, and reduce bias in management decisions.

Improving Responsiveness of DBM in Distribution Systems

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DBM protects product availability but often drifts. Proposed DBM changes will incorporate AI/ML Demand Sensing for daily, granular prediction, making buffers more responsive, improving availability, and reducing inventory.

Demystifying the Strategy and Tactics Tree

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Uwe's presentation demystifies Dr. Goldratt's Strategy and Tactics Tree (S&T Tree). He'll show how to use this tool to define goals, decompose them into measures, and empower teams for strategy implementation, focusing on practical application.

Project Portfolio Management the TOC Way

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Project Portfolio Management the TOC Way addresses the two components of PPM: Planning and Execution. It utilizes Theory of Constraints principles to help organizations master project selection, prioritization, and execution.

TOC Applied to Deal with an Urgent Cancer Surgery and its Implications

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Author used TOC principles to deal with aggressive cancer. Presentation details a complete Strategy and Tactics Tree for scenarios following emergency surgery and a PoC focusing on personal objectives to aid patients' emotional state.

Scalpel Meets Strategy: Innovate Surgical Practices using TOC

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TOC application in OMS, demonstrated across private and public clinics, resolved inefficiencies, improving patient access, wait times, outcomes, finances, staff satisfaction, and retention. Experts should champion its broader healthcare use.

The Yin-Yang of Critical Chain A Case Study of Piloting CC in Pharmaceutical NPI Projects

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GSK piloted Critical Chain (CC) on new product introduction projects at Barnard Castle starting March 2022. CC became the default method in early 2023, improving project flow and increasing team performance and stakeholder confidence.

Conditional Reality Tree (Cond RT)

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A new Thinking Process (TP) tool, the Conditional Reality Tree, was developed in a PhD project. It addresses worsening future situations, pending disasters, impending events, or inadequate corrective action that existing TOC TP tools cannot handle.