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EBM: Constraints

LDRLB

Goldratt that is geared towarding help organizations continually achieve their goals. The underlying assumption of TOC is that organizations can be controlled by variations on three measures: throughput, operating expense, and inventory. Operating expense is all the money the system spends in order to turn inventory into throughput.

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Systemically Non-Systemic: COVID-19 through the Deming Lens

Deming Institute

Guest blog post by Doug Stilwell, Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership at Drake University. Gladwell asks, “Do we all belong to separate worlds, operating simultaneously but autonomously…” or “…are we bound up together in a grand interlocking web?” (p. Leadership and the new science: Discovering order in a chaotic world.

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