One of the most influential books on management is a work of fiction. Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s 1984 business novel, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, introduced a new way of looking at ...

Efficient operations within your small business contribute to bottom-line results. Anything that impedes the flow of work threatens your profitability, so identifying and minimizing bottlenecks is key ...

In this paper we study the resource-constrained project-scheduling problem with discounted cash flows. Each activity of this resource-constrained project-scheduling problem has certain resource ...

For many companies, the biggest threat today is not complacency, but over-reaching. When too much change is happening at once, competing initiatives undermine one another and disconnected priorities ...