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The Goal

The Goal

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

40th Anniversary Edition

Entrepreneur
2012
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Everywhere, improvement was interpreted as almost synonymous to cost savings. People are concentrating on reducing operating expenses as if it’s the most important measurement. But the important thing is that we, in our plant, have switched to regard throughput as the most important measurement. Improvement for us is not so much to reduce costs but to increase throughput.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt, The Goal