Why Improvement Never Stops — POOGI and the Five Focusing Steps
The Five Focusing Steps aren't a one-off fix. Step five sends you back to step one — that loop is POOGI, and it's the part most companies skip.
One Logic, Two Labels
Back from Manchester, still a bit buzzed from Wednesday's session.
"One Logic, Two Labels" came out of something I noticed while writing about S-DBR a few weeks ago, but had never said out loud to a room before: CCPM and Simplified Drum-Buffer-Rope aren&
Why Your Factory Is Always Busy But Never Fast Enough — And What S-DBR Does About It
Most factories run at high utilization but still miss delivery dates. The problem isn't capacity — it's how work flows through the system. Here's what Simplified Drum-Buffer-Rope does differently
How to Implement CCPM in a Multi-Project Environment
Managing multiple projects with shared resources is where traditional scheduling breaks down completely. Here's how Critical Chain Project Management solves the multi-project problem — and how to implement it in practice.
Esselunga Through a Theory of Constraints Lens: How Yesterday's Strength Became Today's Weakness
Between 1997 and 1998 I attended a series of courses on retail, store management and sales promotion at SDA Bocconi. Esselunga was the case study everyone used back then — the "Italian Sainsbury's," the chain nobody could really touch on customer focus. My family has been shopping
Critical Thinking Above the Discipline - From Ticket Queues to Drum Capacity
Why the same buffer mechanism worked for both a ticket queue and a CCPM drum resource, years apart — and what it reveals about letting Critical Thinking sit above any single discipline.
Why Your Projects Keep Running Late — And How Critical Chain Fixes It
Most projects run late not because of bad teams, but because of a flawed method. Here's why Critical Path fails in practice — and what Critical Chain Project Management does differently.
Beyond Local Optimization: What Néi Gong Taught Me About Throughput
Yesterday, I took my first step into the world of Nei Gong.
The premise is deceptively simple: instead of building outward mass, you cultivate internal strength. You stop trying to "force" the body to grow and start allowing it to integrate. As I listened to the principles of
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