Thinking Processes (Theory of Constraints) - Purpose

Purpose

The purpose of the thinking processes is to help one answer questions essential to achieving focused improvement:

  1. What to change?
  2. What to change it into?
  3. How to cause the change?

Sometimes two other questions are considered as well:

  1. Why Change?

and:

  1. How to maintain the process of ongoing improvement (POOGI)?

A more thorough rationale is presented in What is this thing called Theory of Constraints and how should it be implemented.

A more thorough work mapping the use and evolution of the Thinking Processes was conducted by Mabin et al.

Read more about this topic:  Thinking Processes (Theory Of Constraints)

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