Understand the real goal - to turn things around in the "target"

Factory pursue persistently lower unit costs and let the machinery and equipment at full capacity, and even produce more inventory.

Financial accounting standards for full blindly adhere to outdated rules, even ignoring the actual increase in profits resulting in a decline in book profits.

Blind pursuit of sales orders increased off in many demanding orders, which orders may be as processing time increased dramatically reduce the cost.

Examples abound, in reality, I believe everyone will encounter. In fact, this is because people will be as objective measures, while ignoring the real goal of the enterprise, the real goal of business is only one that is making money.

Israeli physicist and business management guru Avery Goldratt in the "target", a book, as we peel cocoon silk pumping our goal to restore the true understanding. This book is the most unique form of fiction to convey management knowledge, which makes the reader can quickly read the contents and piquing the interest of the greatest lessons of all to convey the views and knowledge. "Target" of the hero is a dilemma faced by the factory manager Luo Ge, in the old physics teacher's instructions satisfied the help of Bell, through the engineering process of recycling, the breakthrough of the bottleneck, the final out of the woods turn around and re- his brilliant career. Through this novel, the author conveys to you a lot of management concepts and methods of production management:

To find the real target

The real goal of any business is only one, that is to make money. All other small targets are not really the goal but simply a means to achieve goals set. But many departments and factories were hard at work in the long term, wood for the trees, ignoring their real goal. Therefore, the real goal is to find the first step towards change.

Bottlenecks

In a factory, the most important thing is not the efficiency of a number of important equipment, but should be concerned about the efficiency of the entire system, which affects the efficiency of the system the most crucial factor is the so-called "bottleneck." Bottleneck may be a few machines, it may be several links in a process, find bottlenecks and to dredge will greatly improve the efficiency of the entire system. This barrel theory in the short board is very similar.

Important measure

In the book, the author presents the most important indicators of the three factories. That is the effective output Throughput, inventory and operating costs Inventory Operational Expense. Use of words, the effective output of the whole system is to receive money through the sale of the speed; inventory that is the whole system of money invested in procurement; operating costs of the system is effective for the stock to output and the money spent. Management's goal is to reduce as much as possible inventory and operating costs, increase effective output.

TOC Management

TOC the Theory Of Constraints Theory of Constraints, Goldratt proposed by the management theory. Impede the overall objective of all the factors that enterprises are the constraints, to quickly find and resolve these factors. Even the most advanced robot factory or a piece of equipment may have an impact on the overall objective of the constraints.

Recommended for all involved in management or friends of management who are interested can read this book, the author of the novels in simple form of expression management theory is also based on this purpose. This book not only suitable for factories, enterprises, banks, hospitals and also for consulting firms, non-profit organizations, institutions and schools, etc., in the interview with the back of the book where we can fully understand this. "Target", the author also wrote three other novels the enterprise management, the new concept will be extended to the TOC area with more. "Not Luck" is about the distribution management and conflict resolution, "key chain" is about project management, "is still not enough" is on information technology in the enterprise application. Interested friends can go to read the following for everyone listed Dangdang address.