Building Manufacturing Competitiveness: The TOC Way

by Shridhar Lolla

Overview

Across the world, there is a growing thrust to dramatically improve performance of manufacturing sector and thereby, debottleneck the economic growth.
US is pursuing a clear plan to reclaim its manufacturing dominance. On the other side of the world, India has made aggressive commitment to leverage manufacturing for its future growth. It has set an audacious goal to increase share of its manufacturing GDP from around 16% to 25% within a decade and generate 100 million jobs.
However, the prevailing complex and chaotic business environment make the effort more difficult. Under such situation, focusing on right things is the right strategy. The book presents, Theory of Constraints, TOC as a focusing approach to help countries in dramatically improving performance of their manufacturing sector quickly, without taking too much risk and wasting limited resources. 3 key aspects of the book are:
1. It dovetails TOC to growth agenda of a Nation
2. It provides a contextual understanding of TOC
3. It presents jargon free concepts plus case studies to help organizations know where to start improving their performance.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044510456
Publisher:	Shridhar Lolla
Publication date:	04/29/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Shridhar is a practitioner of Operational Excellence and holds a PhD degree in engineering from IIT Delhi, India. Early in his career, he worked with ABB, Kirloskar Electric, SIFY and Tecumseh. His longest stint was with ABB, the Swiss power and automation technology leader, where in his last assignment, he was Head of Applications and Solutions Group at its Corporate Research Center. Since then, he has gained extensive experience in achieving breakthrough performance in Engineering, Product Development, R&D, IT Services, Software Development and Manufacturing. Shridhar is an application expert of Theory of Constraints (TOC) and shares his time with Goldratt Consulting. His first book, 'Building Manufacturing Competitiveness - The TOC Way' dovetails the TOC approach to dramatically improve performance of manufacturing industry and thereby, unleash economic growth. His second book, 'The Path - Leveraging Operations in a Complex and Chaotic World' is a game changing business novel. He visits, listens, converses, observes and advises teams across Operations. His books contain insights from handholding professionals across multi-locations, in their journey to ever improve impact of operations on business performance. Shridhar is a recognized coach for first generation entrepreneurs and is a part of Indian entrepreneurship ecosystem. Spending the day with operational teams and conducting walk through programs is his calling. Shridhar lives in Bangalore, India. He can be contacted at [e-mail]