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of the 20th Century

Direct or Variable Costing Income Statement

Activity-Based Cost Accounting

Balanced Scorecard

Lean Accounting

Traditional Budgeting, Capital Budgets, and Control Mechanisms

Planning

Throughput Control

Sensitivity Analysis

Throughput Accounting Approach to Performance Evaluation

Case Studies and Simulations

Information and Decision Making

Chapter Summary

Other Chapters Dealing with Performance Measures

Do We Measure Too Much?

Why Do We Have Measurements?

The Constraint Is the Primary Relevant Factor

Profit Maximizing in TOC

Metric 1: Reliability

Metric 2: Stability

Metric 3: Speed/Velocity

Metric 4: Strategic Contribution

Metric 5: Local Operating Expense

Metric 6: Local Improvement/Waste

So, How Is the Operational System Performing?

Focusing on Improvement

The Goal—Achieving Continuous or Ongoing Improvement

Purpose and Organization of This Chapter

Key Concepts and Definitions

A Historical Perspective—Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Introduction

The Improvement Gap and Challenges

The Types of Management Mistakes When under Pressure to Change

The Extent and Consequences of the Failure Rate of Change

The Vicious Cycle Related to the High Failure Rate of Change

Summary of Why Change?

Introduction

Finding the Core Conflicts within Continuous Improvement and Auditing

Finding a Simple and Systematic Way to Break Conflicts

Identifying Limiting versus Enabling Paradigms in Continuous Improvement

Summary of What to Change

Introduction

Criteria to Evaluate a New Solution

Direction of Solution to Breaking the Continuous Improvement Conflicts

Lessons from CI Methods Developed by Ford and Ohno and Other Giants

Importance (and Risks) of Measurements and Incentives

Ensuring the New Direction Addresses All Major UDEs

Potential Negative Branches and How to Prevent Them

Summary of “What to Change to?”

Typical Implementation Obstacles and How to Overcome These

Using TOC to Focus and Accelerate Lean and Six Sigma Initiatives

Using TOC’s S&T as a CI and Auditing Tool

Summary of How to Cause the Change

Historical Perspective to Holistic TOC Implementations

The Goldratt Satellite Program

The X-Y Syndrome of Local TOC Implementations

The ″4 × 4″—First Attempt at a Process to Launch a Holistic TOC Implementation

The Viable Vision Initiative

Using TOC’s Strategy and Tactic Tree to Guide Holistic Implementations

Catering for Differences within the Private and Public Sector

Background

Designing the Five-Day TOC Workshop and Implementation Process

Proposed Changes to the Traditional TOC TP Analysis Roadmap

Detailed Case Study: Analysis on Solid Waste Management in City A

Current Status of Pilot Projects (by the End of 2009)

Future Application of TOC within the Public Sector

Specific Lessons Learned from All the Public Sector Pilots

Future Research

The Birth of First Solar Inc.

Theory of Constraints Contribution to First Solar’s Success

Building the Foundation

Unbolting the Existing Systems and Measures

Building on Early Success

Implementing the Proven TOC Toolset

The Role of TOC’s “Thinking Processes” at First Solar

What Has Made TOC Work at First Solar?

Recommended Good Practices for Implementing TOC Holistically

Summary

What Is a Business Strategy?

Factors That Comprise Strategy

Criteria for a Good Strategy

Ansoff’s Matrix of Four Strategies

Porter’s List

The Resource-Based View

Learning/Emergent Strategies

A Summary of Schools of Strategy

What Is Marketing Strategy?

Inadequate Planning

Inability to Analyze the System

No Theory of Implementation

Conflicts within the System

Conflicting Standards of Performance

Dysfunctional Compensation and Reward Policies

Three Goals or Necessary Conditions of Any Strategy

The Five Focusing Steps

Example—The Five Focusing Steps

The Role of Throughput Accounting and Other Metrics in Strategy

Introduction to

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