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Weber State honors TOC
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Stryker
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more capacity, in three months. Overtime drops 80%, and 20%
additional labor is freed as the company increased its throughput
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Novartis Animal
Health applies Theory of
Constraints (TOC) to create 73% more production output without
adding expense or capital avoiding a $30 million construction
project. |
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RSG
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to 90% with Theory of Constraints (TOC) for projects. |
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Schedule Creation
To address the Cascade Effect and provide managers with the information they
need to make more effective decisions, reliable CC-based schedules are an
essential pre-requisite. There are three major steps in creating schedules
which will meet an organization's needs for decision support.
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Developing the modeling strategy- It is important to define first the
specific functionality required by the organization―what
decisions need to be made and by whom. This provides the overall structure
for how the resource models and project schedules should be constructed,
as well as the level of detail.
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Creating the Project Plans- Creating good project plans (whether to
support CCPM or not) requi4res effectively modeling the key assumptions in
both the work and how it will be managed. Generally speaking more detail
is not necessarily a good thing, and often is detrimental to the overall
effectiveness of the plan. At the same time tasks that are defined at too
high a level tend to be more vague in nature, and have durations
which are inherently too long to enable reliable updating―e.g.
it is nearly impossible to say after 5 days of work on a 90 day task how
many more days of work are left. Another characteristic of good project
plans is that tasks are defined with according to a clear objective or
end, so that its completion can be readily established. TOCC works closely
with its clients (whether they have expertise in creating plans or not) to
insure that task definitions, durations, and relationships are represented
in a way that effectively mirrors the reality of the work.
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Building resource tables and assigning resources to tasks- One of the
distinguishing features of CCPM is that it enables organizations to make a
quantum step forward in resource efficiency. This is achieved through
providing clear visibility of the work and its relative urgency from a
resource perspective to enable effective task prioritization. In the
modeling step it is important to properly assign resources to tasks, to
define how much of a resource is required to complete the task, and to
represent the available capacity clearly. To maximize resource efficiency
it is important to assign resources in pools wherever possible. Pegging
specific resources to tasks during planning will unnecessarily delay
projects when alternate resources could be used.
The ability to create good project plans is
a concern to most organizations - especially those in which project
management is a new discipline. A critical element of TOCC's implementation
support is devoted to insuring that good project plans are put in place. We
provide the structure, education and support need to both achieve sound
plans and to become self-sufficient in their development in the future―even
if there is no pre-existing expertise in place. We teach, coach, and
collaborate with you to insure that you will succeed in this critical step.
In most implementations organizations have good working project schedules in
2-8 weeks.
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