Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • Babita Sobhani BookReview

    Uploaded by

    Babita Sobhani
    17 views2 pages
    The document provides a book review of "The Goal" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. It summarizes the key points of the novel, which follows the story of a plant manager named Alex Rogo who is trying to turn his plant around. The novel teaches operations management principles through Alex's journey. He learns that the goal of increasing throughput while reducing inventory and expenses is more important than superficial metrics. Alex works to identify and address bottlenecks in the production process. The book shows how constant evaluation and improvement efforts are needed to achieve organizational goals on an ongoing basis. It provides lessons that can be applied across different types of organizations.

    Original Description:

    Original Title

    Babita_Sobhani_BookReview

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    The document provides a book review of "The Goal" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. It summarizes the key points of the novel, which follows the story of a plant manager named Alex Rogo who is trying to turn his plant around. The novel teaches operations management principles through Alex's journey. He learns that the goal of increasing throughput while reducing inventory and expenses is more important than superficial metrics. Alex works to identify and address bottlenecks in the production process. The book shows how constant evaluation and improvement efforts are needed to achieve organizational goals on an ongoing basis. It provides lessons that can be applied across different types of organizations.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as pdf or txt
    17 views2 pages

    Babita Sobhani BookReview

    Uploaded by

    Babita Sobhani
    The document provides a book review of "The Goal" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. It summarizes the key points of the novel, which follows the story of a plant manager named Alex Rogo who is trying to turn his plant around. The novel teaches operations management principles through Alex's journey. He learns that the goal of increasing throughput while reducing inventory and expenses is more important than superficial metrics. Alex works to identify and address bottlenecks in the production process. The book shows how constant evaluation and improvement efforts are needed to achieve organizational goals on an ongoing basis. It provides lessons that can be applied across different types of organizations.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 2

    BOOK REVIEW

    ON
    “THE GOAL”

    Submitted By
    Babita Sobhani
    Roll No: 2010059
    Section: B
    In the novel “The Goal”, the author Goldratt provides a vision to the reader to view
    organizational goals logically rather than to be driven by measurements and parameters which
    are superficial in nature.

    The novel explores the life of Alex Rogo, a recently transferred manager of one of the plants of
    UniCo Manufacturing Corporation, located in his hometown, a slowly declining industrial town.
    The book teaches various principles about operations management in the form of a story in
    which Alex is forced to take up newer methods to turn around his plant in the times of disaster.
    The use of real-life situations such as the Boy Scouts, the matches game, etc. was exemplary.
    Alex is guided by his physics teacher “Jonnah”, who makes him, realize that the measurement
    parameters used by his company did not reveal the ground reality. Alex and his team were able
    to determine that if the goal of the organization was to make money, then the steps to achieving
    that goal fell within three functions. These were Throughput, Inventory and Operational
    Expense. The author also revealed how to identify bottlenecks and non-bottlenecks and
    emphasized that bottlenecks should never be idle or run at lower capacity. The author reviews
    the importance of redefining priorities in the process of achieving the end goal. The goal is to
    reduce operational expense and reduce inventory while simultaneously increasing throughput.
    Alex was constantly striving higher and re-developing his and his team member’s ideas to be
    able to utilize an improved profit. The reading of the novel made me realize the efforts that it
    takes to continually strive to attain a goal and to keep a business open. The novel also revealed a
    crucial aspect that activating a resource and utilizing a resource are not synonymous. Alex’s
    home and family problems were also projected in the novel which formed an important aspect
    since a person does face these issues in real life. Alex also made sure that he would not go by the
    conventional methods just to keep the middle management like Bill Peach happy.

    The book requires the basic understanding of operations management in order to grab reader’s
    attention completely and to convey the message across.The ideas presented in “The Goal” do not
    apply only to manufacturing industries but can be applied across the variety of organizations.
    This book inspires all the leaders to constantly evaluate the system of their organizations to
    ensure that they are making real, measurable improvements along with retaining their mission
    and values.

    You might also like