Identifying the Core Conflict

Current Reality Tree (a cause-and-effect analysis of today's system)

What to Change to?

Future Reality Tree (a cause-and-effect analysis of the solution, strategy or desired future system)

Negative Branch Reservations (preventing negative side-effects)

How to Cause the Change?

Pre-requisite Tree (overcoming the obstacles to implementation - the milestones to get from the current to the future system)

Building a Project Network (a detailed, manageable action plan)

As a result of applying TOC's Thinking Processes to countless organizations over the past three decades, generic TOC solutions have emerged that have applicability across all (all!) organizations - be them for-profit or not-for-profit alike. These generic solutions create significant, sustainable "bottom line" improvements, no matter how the bottom line is defined, e.g., dollars of profits, number of students truly educated, the improved health of a community - some are just more challenging to measure than others. How can any generic solution have such broad applicability? It turns out that, no matter what is being processed, how to effectively and efficiently manage those processes and the resources involved is basically the same.

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* Contributed by: -
Vempati Karthik,
PGDBM II Semester,
Institute of Public Enterprise,
Osmania University Campus, Hyderabad.