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The Road to Educational Excellence
Published in Daniel T. Bloom, The Excellent Education System, 2017
One of these logic-based tools is the Evaporating Cloud. The Evaporating Cloud is designed to uncover the conflict within your processes. Consider for a moment the example in Figure 10.2. It states that one of HR’s responsibilities is to locate the talent the organization needs to fill critical human capital needs of the organization. The question posed by the Evaporating Cloud is, how do we achieve that goal? The cloud offers two different alternatives. One says the goal is fiscal responsibility that requires the organization to stay within budgetary guidelines. The other option states that the goal is to recruit or promote employees to fill these critical openings.
Bibliographies and Abstracts
Published in Victoria J. Mabin, Steven J. Balderstone, The World of the Theory of Constraints, 2020
Victoria J. Mabin, Steven J. Balderstone
Dettmer examines the nature of conflict and the TOC approach to resolving conflict. The Conflict Resolution Diagram (or evaporating cloud) is a tool of the TOC Thinking Processes. The author lists the purpose of the tool, along with general assumptions about conflict. The Conflict Resolution Diagram is described in detail and its use outlined in considerable depth. Instances of multiple conflicts are examined and resolution techniques discussed. The reader is led through the step-by-step process of constructing a diagram, providing an understanding of the correct use of the tool.
Theory of constraints: review and bibliometric analysis
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2019
Lucas Martins Ikeziri, Fernando Bernardi de Souza, Mahesh C. Gupta, Paula de Camargo Fiorini
The need to find answers for the execution of each of the five focalisation process steps and for the Three Questions led to another important TOC advance: The Thinking Processes (TP). TP allows for the establishment of an extremely focused approach to eliminating observed undesirable effects (UDEs). Instead of eliminating them one by one, or making use of the Pareto principle, TP assumes that there are interdependencies between the UDEs and there must be a common cause or core problem for all of them (see also, for example, Ronen and Spector [1992] and Grosfeld-Nir, Ronen, and Kozlovsky [2007]). Thinking Process, according to Cox et al. (2012, 120), isa set of logic tools that can be used independently or in combination to address the questions in the change question sequence for managing ongoing improvement. The thinking processes are the: current reality tree (branch, twig), evaporating cloud, future reality tree (branch, twig), negative branch reservation, prerequisite tree, intermediate objectives map, transition tree, and strategy and tactics tree.As a result, TP is expected to obtain collaboration and consensus around win-win solutions built in the light of system constraints. Goldratt explains how to make use of TP to deal with market constraints in the book It’s Not Luck (Goldratt 1994). Cooper and Loe (2000) have also investigated the use of TP for solving marketing problems.