“If we could all agree on one thing, anything, we would be better off” Gaining consensus within an organization is … More
Author: ajaikapoor
Dr. Ajai Kapoor holds a PhD in Operations Research from Carnegie Mellon University. He is the winner of the Fulkerson Prize. He completed his B.Tech from IIT Delhi. He has over 16 years of consulting experience helping companies design innovative logistical solutions based on Theory of Constraints (TOC). His passion is to help companies deploy these solutions as a disruptive force in order to obtain a decisive competitive advantage. His focus is on applying first principles to create simple solutions that can be implemented at scale. He believes in using the power of TOC to resolve deep conflicts within and between organizations, strengthening the integration within companies and with their suppliers and partners.
Ajai’s consulting focus has been on Operations Solutions for high uncertainty environments. These include New Product Development, Airline Maintenance, Supply Chain and R&D organizations. He has worked with Boeing, Amdocs, Larsen and Toubro, Alaska Airlines, Delta Airlines, Medtronics and US Air Force.
Ajai is an entrepreneur, having started a company that focused on providing TOC based software for project management. Currently he is Partner at Goldratt Consulting. He lives in San Jose with his wife and two sons.
Building on Success 2017
Goldratt Consulting is organizing a conference in Salt Lake City on September 7-8. The conference will be held jointly with the Governor’s … More
Memories of Eli
Eli passed away on June 11, 2011. He was a unique person. A genius, an inspiration and a teacher. Every … More
TOC – A Sisyphean task?
The five focusing steps of TOC capture holistic management in the most simple and elegant way: Identify the constraint Exploit … More
Fractured Management Attention – The good, the bad and the ugly
Eli Goldratt talked about management attention being the ultimate constraint in any organization. His reasoning was simple – there are … More
Changing Belief with Physical Changes
To turn a large ship around you need a rudder the size of a small ship. To turn the rudder … More
Changing Paradigm
We are in the business of causing change. Change to the way organization flow work. By changing the way work … More
Delegating Work and Complexity
Often in managing an organization one is faced with “complexity”. Situations where things are not easy to understand, cause-effect is … More
Culture and Technology
“We’ve turned physicians into data entry clerks” -Representative (Dr) Tom Price Dr Price is President Trump’s nominee for the Secretary … More
TOC is Simple and Hard
“It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple” – Steve Jobs Is it an advantage that Theory of … More
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