Focused operations management: achieving more with existing resources

pt. I. The Dynamic Management Environment

Ch. 1. The Modern Business Environment

Ch. 2. Principles of Management in the Dynamic Environment

Ch. 3. The Pareto Rule, the Focusing Table, and the Focusing Matrix

pt. II. New Approaches in Management

Ch. 4. Managing the System by Its Constraints

Ch. 5. Management by Constraints in a Bottleneck Environment

Ch. 6. Managing by Constraints When the Market Is the Constraint

Ch. 7. Focused Current Reality Tree

Ch. 8. Resolving Managerial Conflicts

Ch. 9. The Efficiencies Syndrome

Ch. 10. Evils of Long Response Times

Ch. 11. Reducing Response Times

Ch. 12. The Complete Kit Concept

Ch. 13. Performance Measures and Managerial Control

Ch. 14. The Effects of Fluctuations, Variability, and Uncertainty on the System

Ch. 15. Evils of Traditional Cost Accounting

Ch. 16. Marketing, Costing, and Pricing Considerations in Decision-Making Processes

Ch. 17. Quality Management and Process Control

pt. III. Strategy and Value Creation

Ch. 18. Strategy, Positioning, and Focusing

Ch. 19. Value Creation

pt. IV. Applying the Focused Management Approach

Ch. 20. Value-Focused Project Management

Ch. 21. Managing Research and Development

Ch. 22. The Focused Management Approach in Logistics

pt. V. Perspective and Implementation

Ch. 23. Our Managerial Credo.