Kristen Cox, executive director of the Utah Governor’s Office of Management and Budget, is the most prominent and articulate person I know of trying to apply the theory of constraints to government.

Key Points The Theory of Constraints is one of the more popular process methodologies. There are five focusing steps necessary to make this process work. At the end of the last step, you can start ...

When the previous steps of bottleneck theory produce improvements to constraints that still fall short of the capacity your business requires, then the bottleneck requires elevation.

When one looks at the Theory of Constraints, the underlying principle emphasizes the importance of identifying and eliminating bottlenecks (constraints) in the manufacturing process-not only to ...

Mario Vanhoucke, Erik Demeulemeester, Willy Herroelen, On Maximizing the Net Present Value of a Project under Renewable Resource Constraints, Management Science, Vol. 47, No. 8 (Aug., 2001), pp.

An internationally recognized expert on how businesses can resolve complex management dilemmas and increase profitability by removing organizational constraints will speak at the University of ...

The theory of constraints therefore says that the manager's job is to identify what the bottleneck is, and then systematically improve it until it is no longer the bottleneck — at which point ...