Uwe Techt ist Geschäftsführer der VISTEM GmbH & Co. KG und gilt im deutschsprachigen Raum als der Vorreiter und Experte für die Nutzung der Theory of Constraints und des Critical Chain Projektmanagement. Er ist bekannt als Speaker, Autor von Büchern und Fachartikeln zur Durchbruchsinnovationen sowie als Topmanagement Coach und strategischer Denker für grundlegende Verbesserungen. Uwe Techt hat Bücher über die Theory of Constraints und Critical Chain Projekt Management geschrieben. In seinen Seminaren berichtet er – neben der Theorie - auch immer sehr fundiert über die Erkenntnisse aus der Praxis. Sein Modell für “Projekt Exzellenz” wird international von Unternehmen genutzt, um ihre Projekte zu verbessern.

Engines of (Dis)Harmony (1): a productive working environment

Many employers these days like to proclaim that their employees are ‘their true capital’ and that only happy employees can lead to a healthy, and therefore successful, business. In practice, however, this often turns out to be mere lip service: the working environment in many organizations is demoralizing and rife with conflicts and mistrust. This
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The Quickest Way to Improved Flow 2: Fixing the right mistakes

In the first part of this series, we explained why flow should be the main goal of every organization, and introduced the Four Concepts of Flow developed by Dr. Goldratt. Let us now look at how Dr. Barnard questioned and expanded on them.1 Proponents of the Theory of Constraints will no doubt wonder: what happened
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The Quickest Way to Improved Flow 1: Flow as the Main Goal of Operations

The importance of “Flow” – that is, the unimpeded flow of work through operations – crops up again and again in our work – you may have seen previous posts on the topic on this blog. Dr. Alan Barnard, CEO of Goldratt Research Labs, dedicated an interesting presentation1 to this concept at the most recent
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