There is a lot to be said for mapping out the processes before tinkering with them, because in that way a lot of incomplete routing, sometimes the one way and sometimes the other, wrongly used processes, and you name it, comes to light. Anyone who has ever experienced an ERP implementation knows many stories about…
TOC Scan & Plan and Market Constraints The TOC-SCAN & PLAN can be expanded with the market constraints training module and provides answers to the following questions:
Can the congestion problem be solved with TOC? Traffic jams in Groot Bijgaarde, an accident at 6 o’clock in the morning causes enormous chaos. Driving times from Ghent to Brussels run up to more than 3 hours, everyone knows the problem. Moreover, there is now no budget to redesign the entire road infrastructure and build…
This post opens up original ways of thinking for those looking for a new way to steer their business in the current unstable economic climate. With the topic of business (un)stability, we want to create an insight into an alternative way to steer both the manufacturing industry and trade and services according to techniques that…
Intelligent lean: A strong component of your business strategy for 2021-25. In contrast to the classic lean approach, intelligent lean is like an outsider but with a much broader scope of application. It is a derivation of the TOC technology for flow control, which, by definition, does not begin to move workstations or machines. This…
It is a general adage: Managers walk from one meeting to another and no longer make time for longer-term thinking. In addition, pressure is sometimes seen as a status symbol! This leads to the inevitable vicious circle that you no longer have time to make time. What has changed? The organisations have been slimmed down…
Proven recipes for failure: Experience In management conversations, the beautiful word “experience” is sometimes used to softly disguise past failures. However, some of these “experiences” lead to failures so systematically and predictably that it is certainly worth reflecting on them. Part 1: “When everyone sweeps in front of their own door…” Yes, … then the…
So what difference does it make between the survivors, the winners and the others? A first category Conservatives try to deny the phenomenon and continue ‘business as usual’. Turnover is falling, but no one is to blame for that, it is crisis for everyone, isn’t it? With this reassuring thought, no one feels the need…
Several examples of change management already in use.
Resistance to change does not exist and that can be proven in a very simple way. Suppose you receive €10,000,000 from us as a gift without conditions. For most of us this is a very profound change in our lives, there is usually no resistance. Resistance to a change only exists if the consequence of…
