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July 2, 2025

Achieving The Goal | Throughput #2


In business, as in life, small changes can have a big impact.

If you’re struggling with poor plant flow, too high costs, overtime blowouts or sluggish on-time performance, consider:

What’s one small thing you could do to turn your operation around? 

And how would you decide what that one thing is?

The answers to your inventory and production management problems can be found in Eli Goldratt’s classic business novel, The Goal.

A business must-read for 40 years and counting

This year marks the 40th anniversary of The Goal, one the world’s most-influential business books. 

In it, Goldratt uses the example of a manufacturing plant facing closure to explain why traditional efficiency improvement methods fail.

He introduces Theory of Constraints (TOC) management philosophy as a scientific alternative with demonstrated results.

Everything we do at Montera is based on the TOC tenets outlined in The Goal

In fact, we recommend the book to everyone interested in learning about TOC and how it can improve performance. Get your FREE copy.

The Goal Simulation Workshop

Montera has also helped hundreds of teams worldwide get started implementing the advice in The Goal in our hands-on Goal Simulation Workshops.

We’re presenting our next Goal Simulation Workshop at the TOC Innovation Summit in Bad Nauheim, Germany, Sept. 29-Oct. 2. 

Then we’re off to present the workshop in Krakow, Poland Oct. 7-8 — the first time it’s been delivered in Polish!

Participants learn how to turn a problem-riddled, money-losing venture into a highly profitable, perfectly synchronized manufacturing plant.

Can’t make it to either of these events? We’re also booking for workshop locations across North America. Learn more about the Goal workshop here.

As the Chinese proverb says, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Thanks for reading,

— Jack Warchalowski

Montera CEO

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