The goal : a process of ongoing improvement / Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox ; with interviews by David Whitford.

By:

Goldratt, Eliyahu M, 1947-2011 [author]

Contributor(s):

Cox, Jeff, 1951- [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Burlington, VT : Gower Publishing Company, 2004.Edition: Third revised edition.Description: 384 pages : tables, postcard (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN:

9780566086656

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Didactic fiction

LOC classification:

PR9510.9.G64 G6 2004

Courses that have reserved this title:

M1 Operations Management

Summary: Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. Described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a 'genius', Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an internationally recognized leader in the development of new business management concepts and systems. This 20th anniversary edition includes a series of detailed case study interviews by David Whitford, Editor at Large, Fortune Small Business, which explore how organizations around the world have been transformed by Eli Goldratt's ideas. The story of Alex's fight to save his plant contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed by Eli Goldratt. Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors!

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	TBS Barcelona	Core Textbooks	PR9510.9 GOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	B03844
Book	TBS Barcelona	Core Textbooks	PR9510.9 GOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	B03842
Book	TBS Barcelona	Core Textbooks	PR9510.9 GOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	B03843

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done.

Described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a 'genius', Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an internationally recognized leader in the development of new business management concepts and systems. This 20th anniversary edition includes a series of detailed case study interviews by David Whitford, Editor at Large, Fortune Small Business, which explore how organizations around the world have been transformed by Eli Goldratt's ideas.

The story of Alex's fight to save his plant contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed by Eli Goldratt. Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors!

M1 Operations Management