Purpose
The purpose of the thinking processes is to help one answer questions essential to achieving focused improvement:
- What to change?
- What to change it into?
- How to cause the change?
Sometimes two other questions are considered as well:
- Why Change?
and:
- 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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