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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more. TOC has fully developed methodologies for determining the right location of buffers in projects as well as in manufacturing. Such insights lead to a reassessment of the benchmarks set for capacity. 5] Once in Red, Always in Red , Albert Ponsteen (2017). [6]

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.