Can Theory of Constraints and Lean Six Sigma co-exist
Saturday, October 17th, 2009Bob Sproull was my guest on the Business901 podcast. Bob is an experienced manufacturing executive with a distinguished track record of achieving improvement goals in Manufacturing, MRO, Quality, Product Development, and Engineering. His experience base ranges from low-volume custom products (truck bodies) to process industries (tires) to service industries (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul). He is [...]
Combining the Theory of Constraints and Lean Six Sigma
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Mark Woeppel is the president of Pinnacle Strategies a Dallas based consulting firm. Marke is a recognized expert in the Theory of Constraints, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, and Continuous Improvement. He has earned the founder’s implementer certification from the TOC-ICO. This E-book is a transcription of the podcast we had and is free to [...]
Exploiting and Subordinating your Marketing Constraint
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009A continuation of my blog posts of Using the Theory of Constraints with your Marketing HourGlass. We are concentrating optimizing the Throughput of the Marketing Hourglass utilizing the Five Steps of Continuous Improvement, Steps 2 and 3.
Step 2. Exploit the system’s constraint
This simply means; Getting the most out of the weakest link or phase. This [...]