Strategic Solutions Program

Constraints Management Group offers a unique and comprehensive constraints management based program for executives and/or their direct reports. Through a blend of instructive formats participants learn a repeatable strategic problem solving process, apply that process to a defined topic within their organization and learn and internalize the building blocks of constraints management principles for industry.

About the Strategic Solutions Program

Learn a Process and achieve Jonah Certification while gaining practical knowledge in the TOC strategic thinking processes:

• Current Reality Tree (CRT): Making the connections between organizational challenges that are potentially separated by function, location, etc.
• Core Problem / Core Conflict: Identifying and resolving an organizational problem that results in many symptomatic issues.
• Future Reality Tree (FRT): Defining and ensuring the solution will attain the necessary results.
• Negative Branch Reservations (NBR): Immunizing the solution from potentially disastrous side-effects.
• Prerequisite Tree (PRT): Implementation planning.
• Buy-in: Gaining consensus when returning to your organization.

Define a Solution/Project for your company – Work through problem, solution, implementation plan and buy-in for a strategic level issue having a bottom line impact on your organization. A subject matter is defined and relevant data is gathered about that subject matter in advance of the program. The participant then learns and uses the above tool set in order to analyze the subject matter from problem through solution implementation and organizational buy-in.

Learn About Cutting Edge Solutions for Industry – 1-2 hour “Focus Sessions” will be devoted to compelling topics for industry. The Focus Sessions will be led by a variety of subject matter experts. Focus Sessions Include:

• Fundamental Lead Time Compression Strategies
• Operations: Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) and Buffer Management
• Demand Chain Management
• The Planning/Agility Dilemma (including MRP versus Lean)
• The compromises associated with MRP.
• Strategic stock buffering and the solution known as ASR.
• Project Management: Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)
• Lean and Constraints Management – how do they fit together?
• Marketing: Designing and delivering “Mafia Offers” (an offer that cannot be refused).
• Sales: Reengineering the sales process
• Finance: Challenging the world of product cost.
• Metrics: The new suite of Global and Local Metrics for demand driven and Constraints Management companies

Guest Presenters - Learn from and interact with a variety of subject matter experts delivering topical presentations and available for discussing attendee’s organizations:

• Debra Smith – Debra is an internationally recognized expert and author of three books on the subject of finance and metrics in Constraint Management.
• Justin Roff-Marsh – Sales Process Engineering is a radical new approach to the resourcing and management of the sales process. This approach enables organizations to build a high-throughput sales process by slaughtering a variety of sacred cows within the Sales silo of most companies.
• Carol Ptak – Carol has authored five books on MRP and ERP as well as a book jointly written with Dr. Goldratt. She is a past CEO of APICS, a former VP for People Soft and former Director with IBM Global Services and she is currently the Executive in Residence at Pacific Lutheran University.
• Dan Eckermann – Dan has recently retired as President and CEO of LeTourneau Technologies Inc., a global manufacturer of land and offshore drilling and mining equipment. Dan led the successful implementation of Constraints Management within an extremely complex supply chain driving 5x growth in revenue and ROI. He will share his lessons learned as an executive over that exciting time.
• Michael Pitcher – Michael is internationally recognized in his expertise with multi-project implementations using CCPM, Critical Chain software and Lean techniques to systematically bring projects in on-time, in scope and within budget.

The sessions will be led by CMG partners Chad Smith and Jeff Herman. Combined Jeff and Chad have guided nearly 1,000 executives and managers through the strategic thinking processes of TOC. Both Jeff and Chad are certified as Jonah’s Jonahs and are certified in all applications of the Theory of Constraints by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO).

Program Details

The participant fee is $10,000 per person. Constrains Management User Conference (CMUC) 2010 registration is included in this fee. There will be a special breakout session at the 2010 CMUC for SSP participants.

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Schedule

Participants should be prepared for a rigorous schedule. All days start at 8:30 am unless otherwise specified. We will end approximately at 6:30 – 7:00 pm each evening unless otherwise specified. We may go later depending on the progress of the group.
Monday:

• Introduction
• Subject Matter Definition
• 3 Cloud Process
• Focus Session: Session 1 Goldratt Satellite Program – Operations

Tuesday:

• Focus Session: Planning and Procurement - The Predictability versus Agility dilemma
• The Current Reality Tree
• Focus Session: Session 2 Goldratt Satellite Program – Finance and Metrics

Wednesday:

• Focus Session: Lean and Constraints Management
• The Current Reality Tree (cont)
• Focus Session: Re-Engineering the Sales Process – Justin Roff-Marsh

Wednesday/Thursday:

• Raising Assumptions and Injections
• Focus Session: Basic Lead Time Compression Strategies
• The Future Reality Tree
• Focus Session: Project Management the TOC Way – presentation by Michael Pitcher
• The Negative Branch

Friday:

• Focus Session: Technology’s Place – Carol Ptak
• Grounding “Flying Pigs”
• Break at approximately 1:00 pm

Monday:

• Injection Map and Sort
• The PreRequisite Tree
• Focus Session: Session 5 Goldratt Satellite Program – Marketing

Tuesday:

• Focus Session: The New Global and Local Metrics – Debra Smith
• The PreRequisite Tree
• The Transition Tree

Wednesday:

• Analysis Completion and Wrap up

Thursday:

• Focus Session: Leading Large Change Management Initiatives – Dan Eckermann Buy-In Overview
• Sample Presentations

Friday:

• Buy-In Wrap-up
• Program Wrap-up
• Break at approximately at 1:00 pm

To register, please click here and send us a message indicating your interest in the program.