The Goal: Book Review
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The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt examines the life of an American plant manger in his quest to find out what exactly the goal of a plant manager is and how to go about reaching this goal. Along the way towards realizing the goal, the plant manager is forced define and understand the theory of cons ....
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.... it possible for the manager to develop operational rules for running his plant. These measurements are: throughput, inventory, and operational expense, and everything that the manager manages in his plant is covered by them. Still, the manager must do much thinking and research in order to figure out just how to express his goal in terms of these measurement.
In addition to expressing the goal, the manager is troubled by whether employees, robots, and machinery actuall need to be running at ....
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