tailieunhanh - Putting the TOC Thinking Processes to Use_2

Tham khảo tài liệu 'putting the toc thinking processes to use_2', kinh tế - quản lý, kinh tế học phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Necessary Condition Thinking 75 Figure Surface the Hidden Assumptions Let s examine one of the examples We must reduce our costs in older to get higher profits. In the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s this seemed to be the cardinal rule of industry. In fact many of you might even say that it is still the main focus of your companies. The most sought-after executives were those who trimmed the fat by right sizing their companies into lower cost structures. Many of these companies learned the hard way that this approach led to very short-term improvements in profitability and long-term deterioration of morale productivity and profitability. Let s see if we can uncover the key assumptions that led us to believe that this was the way to improve the profitability of our enterprises and then challenge ourselves to find alternatives to this methodology. We do this by asking questions that point directly to the assumptions that lurk beneath the arrow. Why do we believe that we must reduce our costs in order to get higher profits Why do we believe that we cannot get higher profits unless we reduce our costs Our answers to these questions uncover some of the key assumptions that were used to form the necessary condition relationship between cost reduction and higher profits. In this example the assumptions might include Copyright 1999 CRC Press LLC. 76 Thinking for a Change Because our ability to sell more volume is limited. In order to achieve higher profits we must leduce our costs because our ability to sell more volume is limited. Because our products are already selling at the maximum price the market will pay. The reason we must leduce our costs in order to achieve higher profits is that our products are already selling at the maximum price the market will pay. Because there is a tremendous amount of fat in our system that cannot be put to productive use. We must reduce our costs in order to achieve higher profits because there is a tremendous amount of fat in

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