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Summary: Fiction for Industry
Review: This book is a great follow-up to The Machine That Changed the World. I found myself excited to drive back and forth to work to listen to some more. The story of how the manager changed his plant into a productive unit was excellent. His life on the side was sometimes a little slow, but the overall book with great. The few added sound effects the tapes provided seemed to only add to the book.
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Summary: The book is probably really good if you are plant manager.
Review: But oddly enough I'm not. Our economics teacher made us read this book for economics class and I found it to be totally irrevelent to anything i would have to learn in high school. And now i have to write a nomination based on the book for the Malcolm Baldridge Excellence Award. Reading this book was a complete waste of time for me.
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Summary: Commonsense approach to shopfloor problems
Review: It's interesting to note that someone had commented that this book is for fifth graders - well if CEO's have had the common-sense required at fifth grade a lot manufactuirng industries would have a goal and be productive. Its time to wake up and smell the coffee. To date very few companies have a system if you have worked in the real world!!
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Summary: Common Sense is not so Common
Review: At first glance it may be easy to label the conclusions of "The Goal" as common sense. However if that is the case then why is it that a huge percentage of companies still do not use the techniques described in "The Goal"."The Goal" is a brilliantly written novel about manufacturing plant with scenarios that are seen in almost all plants. Granted, hearing about the heroin's marital problems can be frustrating in the middle of solving plant problems, but it is a small detail compared to the wealth of knowledge that can be gained from this book. A must read for those in a management role at a manufacturing facility.
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Summary: A Manufacturing Book That Applies to Many Industries
Review: I first read the book while working at an electric utility, Florida Power and Light. While enjoying it immensely, I didn't see its application to what we were doing. Several years later, while consulting with a hospital, I "saw" that their medical records department was having the same problems Alex Rogo had in his plant. Their "product" is the generation of a patient bill, developed by "processing" the patient's medical records. I enouraged the director to read THE GOAL, we then proceeded to improve the throughput of her operation by identifying "Herbie", addressing batch issues, etc. Now I look for "Herbies" everywhere!
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Summary: A must-read for manufacturing professionals
Review: Goldratt teaches practical, simple lessons on how to make substantial productivity improvements in a manufacturing process by rethinking the production flow. Operations professionals must read this book to see how common sense can really impact an organization. Now that it's on tape, there's no excuse not to!
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Summary: Duh
Review: I thought that The Goal, while providing a useful reiteration of common sense ideas, was, overall, written at a level for fifth graders. I felt patronized by Goldratt's approach...the plot was weak to say the least. The book presented good ideas, but would be better suited to a high-school economics class than a CEO's library.
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Summary: Good information: Easy and enjoyable to read
Review: Harris Semiconductor put Goldratt's Theory of Constraints to work and achieved outstanding results. See "Leading the Way to Competitive Excellence: The Harris Mountaintop Case Study," available from Amazon.com. This book cites "The Goal," also "The Race" and "Critical Chain." I also enjoyed "The Goal" on cassette tape (also available from Amazon.com). William A. Levinson, P.E.
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Summary: Out of the box thinking -- Key tool for any business program
Review: The goal offers a new approach to gettting through to the audience the important message -- business is changing in America and we must be pro active and make the hard choices to move it along and stay competitive.
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Summary: a nuts-and -bolts approach to managing change
Review: I loved the real world approach in this book as it included the combination of the human thought process with the hard core business perspective. Goldratt presented an easy reading and grassroots approach void of boardroom jargon and public language. Can't wait for the sequel!
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