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Haystack Syndrome
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
from North River Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Goldratt without a Story
  Overview
  The subtitle of this book is "Sifting information out of the data ocean." The point that the author tries to make throughout this book is that we have vast quantities of data and we have ever-expanding systems to organize and file that data, but data is not information. The first part of the book covers the difference between data and information and how data and information relate to the decision-making process. Chapter 14 particularly goes into a summary of the difference between data and... more info

• Damn, where's that needle?
  I'm an IT guy. I'm a huge fan of the theory of constraints (TOC) series by Goldratt. Then why do I give this book only three stars?
  When I picked up the book I was happy to go and read it. After reading The Critical Chain I was somewhat disappointed, but this new book was all about my thing... IT.
  The book reads the same as the other ones in the series, but it does not cover the excitement you had when reading them. Maybe as an IT guy I expected this book to be of great help and learn me some new... more info

• A disappointing re-hash of Goldratt's ideas
  This is a sloppy mess of a book. Poorly written, repetitive, full of irritating conversational tics, it is a poor source for students of Goldratt's innovative thinking on manufacturing systems. I picked it up second-hand since it is out of print, but now regret it. There are much better books on TOC, information systems design and scheduling.

• A pearl of thought from Goldratt's genius!
  This is one of the best books on business administration I've ever read. OK, reading the final chapters related to information systems might be somewhat boring, but Part I alone is worth the highest praise. Why? Because it tears apart the obsolet Cost Accounting paradigms and other Jurassic sacred cows of the traditional administration that still nowadays, in the vast majority of the companies, lead business leaders to wrong decisions, with severe damage to the financial performance of companies and even... more info

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