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Review
What Is the Goal?
ByYouSeo-yeon
EditorofNationalSection
liyahu M. Goldratt was an Israeli physicist and the
Goldratt
founder of the Theory of Constraints (TOC). TOC,
a paradigm in management, views that a system has
M.
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one or more constraints to hinder its achievement. A system
means a set of connected parts including human, resources,
energy, facility, etc. TOC is based on the question, ¡°What is
thegoal?¡±
¡°The Goal (1984)¡± is a story about solving complicated
problemsoccurringinafactorybasedonTOCconcepts.Dr.
Goldratt, the author, had not been permitted to translate his
work into Korean and Japanese for 17 years, fearing that it
wouldthreatentheU.S.economyinahugerecessionifAsia¡¯s
growing companies introduced the TOC and improved their
productivity.
¡ã ¡°TheGoal¡±nowhasaKorean
translationandcartoonversion.
The story is organized in a novel form, which can be
grasped from his words: ¡°I sincerely believe that the only way we can learn is through our
deductiveprocess.Presentinguswithfinalconclusionsisnotawaythatwelearn.Atbestitisa
¡¦
way that we are trained.
Jonah, in spite of his knowledge of the solutions, provoked Alex to
derivethembysupplyingthequestionmarksinsteadofexclamationmarks.¡±Infact,theadvisor
Jonah does not give Alex the answer to overcome the shutdown crisis of his plant. Instead, by
askingtherightquestion,theprofessormakeshimrealizethediscrepancybetweenthenumerical
valuesthathavebeenreportedandtheactualwaytheywork.Therebytheprofessorinduceshim
torethinkthebasicassumptionsthathavebeenregardedasfacts.FollowingAlex¡¯sthinking,the
reader would also be able to find some kind of enlightenment rather than unilaterally receiving
information.
Let me introduce one of the stories that Alex gets an idea through hiking with his son. From
this,IcouldrealizethatTOCisnotjustatheoryfardetachedfromourworkinglives,butadaily
conceptthatcanbeappliedtoeverywhereandeveryone.
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