About this Presentation
Highlights include: 20 year history of rescuing companies with TOC – just like Alex Rogo; Impact of TOC during the sale of a company – “The Best Kept Secret in the World”; How to leave enough on the table for the buyer; The role of people in selling the plan; and using business cycles to leap past competition.
What Will You Learn
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The speaker has been involved in the theory of constraints since the 1990s and has successfully adopted a number of the concepts and methods in the Australia and Pacific region.
The speaker has a background in mechanical engineering and has worked as an industrial engineer from the beginning of his career.
The speaker has been involved in a number of company turnarounds, using the theory of constraints to improve business performance.
Instructor(s)
Kobus van der Zel
Kobus van der Zel a senior consultant at MorrisAnderson, operating as a Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) in companies facing liquidity or transition challenges. Kobus holds mechanical engineering and MBA degrees, and is a qualified TOC Jonah (1999). Since 1999 he has tied his turnaround fees to monthly profitability or cash flow results, in order to create a pull system for truly understanding the obstacles for higher business and people performance. Coaching and interim CEO engagements over a span of 16 years in South Africa, Canada and the USA has enabled him to summarize the forces preventing higher performance in his book The Forces of Progress (www.lulu.com/spotlight/globalturnarounds). “When I engage with a new underperforming company I am always surprised at how so many weak people could have gathered in one company” Kobus says. “Eli helped me to understand that people are inherently good, and that it was the company that made the people weak – which is great news, because it means the process can be reversed to make them strong again!” Kobus’ system for people development is at the root of his turnaround strategies by using the online accelerator www.YourSensei.org – which combine the best of TOC, lean manufacturing and people development processes to ensure optimal cash flow generation when it is needed most.