The Goldratt Webcast Series
by Eli Goldratt
...probably twenty years have past since I claimed that the three most important questions in improving an organization are:

1. What to change?
2. To what to change to? And
3. How to cause the change?

I'm sure that all of us have taught and explained these questions more times that we care to remember.
In the last twenty years, I have written nine books, designed and given even more lectures - some refined to the level of commercial videos or computer-based courses. All this mountain of material was my attempt(s) to answer these three questions.
Now ask yourself: out of all that material, how much was devoted to answer the third question?
Almost nothing!!!
The change that we now witness is actually based onthree different elements that were all introduced by the newly developed S&T trees:
The first two we discussed before:

1. The ability to firmly connect any initiative to, not just the higher objective but all the way to the top objective.
2. The existence of plus-type improvement and its buy-in process became evident.

Level 4 and 5 of the trees provides an additional important element:

3. The first time that a documented answer for the third question is provided...

Starting February 2008 Eli Goldratt will deliver a series of special webcasts. The first webcast series will be on Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) with a focus on implementing this methodology throughout an organization in such a way that bottom-line results can be achieved in a surprisingly short time, with full buy-in and generating the base for an ever flourishing organization.