How does Theory of Constraints apply to the healthcare situation? Very well. Alex Knight presented his long running work in healthcare as the opening keynote at the TOCICO 2014 conference.
How does Theory of Constraints apply to the healthcare situation? Very well. Alex Knight presented his long running work in healthcare as the opening keynote at the TOCICO 2014 conference.
Collaboration is important to buisness, but it isn't the only thing. And it can't be forced by merely rearranging the deck chairs. Peter Vander Auwera gives me incentive to think about these things.
Interesting video from Mary Poppendieck on The Tyranny of "The Plan". It's full of good anecdotes and a couple of great examples of how planning could really work, instead of they way it usually (doesn't) work today.
"With everything you do you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors." Is one version of the summary of this book.
Rob Newbold's latest book takes the reader further down into how to run projects (with CCPM). This book will be something to talk about with my colleagues and friends who are running these kinds of projects.
Blue Ocean Strategy is a ten-year-old book that is still relevant today. How do you craft a business strategy that moves you to a new mode of operation - away from the competition and setting your own destiny? I also see a lot of Viable Vision in this book.
A great discussion of systems thinking by Fred Kofman, which ties into much of what the folks in the Theory of Constraints camp talk about. In the first minute, he says several times some version of, "To optimize the overall system, you must sub-optimize the subsystems."
I read the 20-year-old Raving Fans recently. It has some great ideas that help people think about how to grow and develop your business. The key is to turn your customers into raving fans.
When planning a project, are you more interested in the dates every activity happens, or are you more interested in how all the activities are connected together?
Are successes because of the design or despite the design? What about failures?
Another book on my December reading binge was Look Before You Lean by “Employee X.” It was recommended by my friend and fellow curious cat, Steve Holt, in a quick Tweet. I took a look, and the topic seemed right up my alley. Indeed it is.