The Goal
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox was an interesting read. The novel introduced many concepts that can be used to create success at work, home, in school and in life. In life we set goals and have expectations that we desire to seek and achieve, this should be done with the idea that we have to consistently and constantly make improvements. These improvements will help us achieve our goals.
This novel is about a plant manager by the name of Alex Rogo who manages a plant for a company called Unico that is ultimately failing. The plant is over producing products and failing to commit to shipping orders timely. The plant is losing money and is unable to produce revenue to stay competitive nationally and with its foreign competitors. …show more content…
According to the quality assurance reports the “numbers” looked good and the plant was running efficiently. As Alex is thinking about what he could do differently and ways to keep his plant from closing he finds a cigar in his pocket and reminisced about the time he ran into his old physics professor Jonah at the airport and remembers a conversation that he and Jonah had briefly while waiting to catch their next flight about the efficiency of his plant. Alex was proud to say that his plant was efficient because it uses robots for production of parts. He explains that these robots have improved the plant’s production by thirty something percent. Jonah then ask a few more questions to lead Alex into thinking that if his plant was efficient with the use of robots why is it that the plant is in jeopardy of closing. The first step to solving any problem is to first identify the problem and then find ways to make improvements. Jonah asked Alex the million dollar question and that is what the Goal of his …show more content…
Although this is a huge start to getting his plant on track in the three months given he is losing a battle at home with lack of time spent with his wife and children and broken promises. He is forced by his son to attend a boy scout’s camping trip. As the boys are hiking to the camp site Alex notices the many breaks in the line in which the boys are trailing each other and relates it to the concept of statistical fluctuation. One may ask, what statistical fluctuation is, and while reading I gathered that statistical fluctuation is the concept used to describe fluctuation in processes which depends on an event or something happening. This concept can be used to understand if Alex is running a balanced
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox was an interesting read. The novel introduced many concepts that can be used to create success at work, home, in school and in life. In life we set goals and have expectations that we desire to seek and achieve, this should be done with the idea that we have to consistently and constantly make improvements. These improvements will help us achieve our goals.
This novel is about a plant manager by the name of Alex Rogo who manages a plant for a company called Unico that is ultimately failing. The plant is over producing products and failing to commit to shipping orders timely. The plant is losing money and is unable to produce revenue to stay competitive nationally and with its foreign competitors. …show more content…
According to the quality assurance reports the “numbers” looked good and the plant was running efficiently. As Alex is thinking about what he could do differently and ways to keep his plant from closing he finds a cigar in his pocket and reminisced about the time he ran into his old physics professor Jonah at the airport and remembers a conversation that he and Jonah had briefly while waiting to catch their next flight about the efficiency of his plant. Alex was proud to say that his plant was efficient because it uses robots for production of parts. He explains that these robots have improved the plant’s production by thirty something percent. Jonah then ask a few more questions to lead Alex into thinking that if his plant was efficient with the use of robots why is it that the plant is in jeopardy of closing. The first step to solving any problem is to first identify the problem and then find ways to make improvements. Jonah asked Alex the million dollar question and that is what the Goal of his …show more content…
Although this is a huge start to getting his plant on track in the three months given he is losing a battle at home with lack of time spent with his wife and children and broken promises. He is forced by his son to attend a boy scout’s camping trip. As the boys are hiking to the camp site Alex notices the many breaks in the line in which the boys are trailing each other and relates it to the concept of statistical fluctuation. One may ask, what statistical fluctuation is, and while reading I gathered that statistical fluctuation is the concept used to describe fluctuation in processes which depends on an event or something happening. This concept can be used to understand if Alex is running a balanced