A case of personal productivity: Illustrating methodological developments in TOC

Issue title: Theory of Constraints – Practice and Research

Guest editors: Boaz Ronen

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Cox III, James F.^a | Mabin, Victoria J.^b | Davies, John^b

Affiliations: [a] Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Athens, USA | [b] Victoria Management School, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

Abstract: This paper provides a constructive illustration of ongoing methodological developments in the use of TOC Thinking Processes and logic tools. In particular, the paper outlines a new approach to using the Evaporating Cloud, Current Reality Branch and Future Reality Branch, and demonstrates how that approach can be used to construct a comprehensive problem solution to a common problem, that of personal productivity.

Keywords: Theory of Constraints, Thinking Processes, logic tools, personal productivity, causal loop diagram

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-2005-24105

Journal: Human Systems Management, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 39-65, 2005