Thursday, June 30, 2011

Goldratt India

Today Mr. Ravi Gilani of Goldratt India, who has been the principal consultant in the Theory of Constraints area in India and popularizing Eliyahu Goldratt's ideas visitied the IIMI campus to address the MBA students. It was great to meet with him and have an extended conversation today. Unlike a very mundane what is ToC type of PPT he actually spoke about decisions to made in life and especially decisions that MBA students actually took etc. He later explained that he did not get into the usual organizational ToC specifics because, he only like to talk to actual decision makers and that he was aware that the people in the audience were only decision makers for themselves and not for any organizations. So, he would be more effective in articulating ToC thinking processes as applied to individualistic situations.

I guess this in general serves as a good guidance to those of us who go about doing these lecture sessions or corporate presentations. Unless speaking to the firm's real actionary body, it may actually work better to apply the concept / framework at the individual level to explain it and allude to the impact of the same at the organizational level. Food for thought...

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