Theory of Constraints: Creative Problem Solving

✍ Scribed by Umesh P. Nagarkatte (Author); Nancy Oley (Author)

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Year: 2017
• Leaves: 315
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book was written to assist professionals and students to become proactive in their own education, improve thinking, resolve personal and interpersonal conflicts, improve pedagogy, manage departmental affairs and guide administrative decisions. The text captures the practical experience of the authors with and formal training in TOC to address many of the issues facing today’s education stakeholders.

The text is designed to teach methods for 1) "win-win" conflict resolution, 2) decision-making, 3) problem solving, and 4) analysis of systems using TOC’s powerful logic-based graphical Thinking Process tools. A creative thinker can identify, plan and achieve his or her goals just knowing the Thinking Process Tools.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Authors

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: What to Change? Part 1: Branch, Current Reality Tree and Future Reality Tree

Chapter 3: What to Change? Part 2: Evaporating Clouds

Chapter 4: What to Change to?

Chapter 5: How to Cause the Change? Prerequisite Tree, Project Plan, and Transition Tree

Chapter 6: Five Focusing Steps in the Process of Ongoing Improvement (POOGI): Institutional Problem Solving

Chapter 7: Epilogue: How Did We Do?

Appendix: TOC for Education

Index

✦ Subjects

Economics, Finance, Business & Industry;Business, Management and Marketing;Politics & International Relations;Government