ABSTRACT

Unnecessary change is most commonly associated with organizations that are working in isolation from each other, with no real "focus" on the overall goal of the company. Each individual organization has determined some predefined goal that they want to accomplish, and they set out to do so. A sales organization wants to increase sales without a concrete understanding of the internal capacity of the manufacturing organization. More sales, without the necessary capacity, will be very destructive to the manufacturing organization. Sometimes getting the necessary buy-in for the changes publishers want to make can be a difficult process, but not impossible. In the Theory of Constraints Applied Systems Thinking course, there is a segment dedicated to this process, which provides some useful guidelines to implement change. Logic, both necessity and sufficiency, can be used to show how something systematically will help to solve a problem, reach an objective or overcome an obstacle.