Theory of Constraints

My First PC and Internet

Back in about 1994 my sister and I were lucky enough to own a state of the art IBM PC (for those too young to remember, IBM used to make PCs and then sold this side of their Business to Lenovo). This hardcore PC had a massive 64MB RAM with an Intel 486 DX4/100 processor. [...]

Enhance Website Speed with the Theory of Constraints

In the early days of the Web speed was more necessary than presentation due to bandwidth constraints. Then came DSL/ADSL at which time graphics, Flash content and other bandwidth hungry ‘things’ blossomed. We now seem to be again going towards speed as Webpage best practice. Of course this cycle will likely turn the corner again [...]

The Theory of Constraints – in Plain English

The Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a Quality Management System originally introduced by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt in the book called The Goal (1984). TOC uses the ‘Five Focusing Steps’ which is also termed the ‘Process of Ongoing Improvement’. TOC is powerful in that it is logical and, in many ways, very obvious. Here is [...]