Combining the Theory of Constraints and Lean Six Sigma

Mark Woeppel is the president of Pinnacle Strategies, a Dallas based consulting firm. Mark is a recognized expert in the Theory of Constraints, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, and Continuous Improvement. He has earned the founder’s implementer certification from the TOC-ICO. This E-book is a transcription of the podcast we had and is free to Read More …

Can Theory of Constraints and Lean Six Sigma co-exist

Bob Sproull was my guest on the Business901 podcast. Bob is an experienced manufacturing executive with a distinguished track record of achieving improvement goals in Manufacturing, MRO, Quality, Product Development, and Engineering. His experience base ranges from low-volume custom products (truck bodies) to process industries (tires) to service industries (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul). He is Read More …

Theory of Constraints + Lean + Six Sigma = Ultimate Improvement Cycle

I was getting ready to write a blog and was visiting several books I had just completed for some background information. I was distracted and saw that I had a couple of LinkedIn invitations and decided to review them instead. One of the invitations was from Bob Sproull. I stopped a second and looked over Read More …

TLS – Theory of Constraints, Lean, Six Sigma Integration

Mark Woeppel is a master of organizational transformation with a lengthy track record of successful turnarounds. He is a recognized expert in the Theory of Constraints, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, and Continuous Improvement. He has earned the founder’s implementer certification from the TOC-ICO. He is an internationally known author, speaker and lecturer on the Read More …

Elevating and Repairing Marketing Constraints

A continuation of my blog posts on Using the Theory of Constraints with your Marketing HourGlass. We are concentrating on optimizing the Throughput of the Marketing Hourglass utilizing the Five Steps of Continuous Improvement: Steps 4 and 5. Step 4. Elevate the system’s constraint. You may have found significant improvement in the preceding steps and Read More …

Using Theory of Constraints in Marketing

Do you remember the novel The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeffrey Cox? One of the unique things about this book was that it created a variety of cottage industries with one of the most obvious using a novel, a story to introduce a problem solving concept. You can think Read More …