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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

She goes on to write, “In quantum physics, a homologous process is described as relational holism, where whole systems are created by the relationships among subatomic particles” (p. 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.

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