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Necessary But Not Sufficient
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Eli Schragenheim, Carol A. Ptak
from North River Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• TOC Applied to the High Tech Industry
  This is the story of a high-tech company that sells ERP systems and how it decided to move from selling a bunch of features to selling bottom-line value and in the process has increased it's business considerably. In parallel, their main product is also moving in lock step from a pure ERP to a TOC based management system. As with all of Goldratt's business novels, the main characters have their "ah ha" moment.
  I could relate to it because I'm a techie too and I'm used to being sold "features" and... more info

• 99% Novel, 1% TOC
  Necessary But Not Sufficient can be boiled down to three points:
  1. Technology is worthless if it doesn't bring bottom-line value.
  2. "Drum-buffer-rope" and "Buffer Management" are good
  3. "Pull" inventory management is good
  As an rabid reader and huge fan of The Goal, I was dissapointed with the delivery of this book. The fictional plot was boring and the characters were met with absolute apathy. While the above three points are repeated ad nauseum, no real background or detail is... more info

• Worst of the TOC Novels
  This book has very little new material from previous TOC books. It doesn't lead the reader as well as The Goal or It's Not Luck. In short it is a "Rah-Rah" book telling the reader how great TOC is without giving much detail and in the context of a novel that doesn't create a great amount of character sympathy. I really don't understand how a man as brilliant as Goldratt could have written this. Get The Goal, It's Not Luck, and the appropriate textbook(s) to implement TOC in your business.

• Student's point of View
  I'm a student at Tec de Monterrey, in Mexico City. I've been assigned to read The Goal, it wasn't luck and this necessary but not suficient. I have to say that when i read the goald and it's second part i really loved the book. I was introduced to this concepts like DBR and inventory management. While i was reading necessary... i thought, this is by far the worst book written by this author (also read the race).

  As a novel there's nothing exciting about it, is not that the other's had me in the edge of... more info

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