If I only had 6 weeks to turn around my business (or team), I would do this…
I think I know you …
You’ve read a lot about TOC — bottlenecks, critical chain, throughput accounting — but still don’t know where to start.
If that’s true, I’ve got something that actually works: the 6-Week TOC Sprint.
What’s the 6-Week TOC Sprint?
It’s a 90-minutes-a-week coaching sprint designed to help you untangle the mess, figure out where to focus, and get traction.
It’s not more TOC theory. And it’s not just diagnosis.
Every one of my clients has had good TOC knowledge before they hired me. They didn’t need more theory. They needed help turning it into practice inside a real business. That’s what this is.
Over six weeks, we work through your real business, and get you unstuck.
I don’t normally make sales pitches like this.
One of my projects has wrapped early, and my wife is away overseas for the month, so I’ve got more time in July than usual. This time of year, the time zones work well for people in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Europe.
So if you’ve been circling TOC for a while, but the business still feels tangled, this is a good moment to ask: what would change if you knew exactly where to focus?
I don’t collect testimonials from clients but …
But if you’ve read my books, you’ve seen countless examples of my work.
And you know how it goes …
It usually looks like this:
A business is stuck and confused. There are symptoms everywhere: delays, firefighting, overloaded people, too many priorities, projects that should be finished but somehow keep dragging on.
We untangle the mess. We find the root cause. The situation becomes clearer. Then we make a few focused changes in the right place.
A few taps here. A few tweaks there.
And suddenly the pressure comes down and the business speeds up at the same time.
Everything is better.
Not perfect, of course. But better.
Stuff gets shipped (at long last). And often that is enough to push the business into being profitable.
It is a bit like a doctor starting with symptoms, finding the real problem, and then doing keyhole surgery.
Not a huge transformation program. Not a hundred initiatives.
A precise intervention where it matters.
This works whether you build software, develop products, run a factory making real things, run a gym, or lead a hospital.
The surface looks different every time.
Underneath, it’s all queues and clues. 🕵️♀️
I can only take a few of these in July.
The first session is free. But it’s not a sales call.
We start working.
We look at your business, the mess, the symptoms, the stuck projects, the overloaded people, the places where speed keeps disappearing.
Then we get busy untangling it.
By the end of that first session, you should have a clearer sense of what is going on, where the leverage point lurks, and whether it makes sense for us to keep working together.
If we both think there is something useful to do, we turn it into a paid 6-Week TOC Sprint.
If not, you still leave with more clarity than you came in with.
And that’s priceless - bad pun intended.
So … it’s just 90 minutes a week for six weeks to untangle the mess, find the leverage, and start getting traction.
If you’d like to chat, hit reply and tell me what’s on your mind.
Clarke
Yes, I think I've been assuming that they fear. The reason they do not care is they fear that they will look bad. Could be all three of those reasons that you mentioned. Perhaps I've been assuming those reasons and not really asking with empathy. And maybe not even with the recognition that they might know something that I need to know. I've been asking a lot of questions of operators like that, but not necessarily planners and schedulers and managers. Thanks for the advice.
US printing plant with OEE pressure from European ownership. I don't think they get to hear the VOC at all. The bottleneck is so obvious to ME (CI mgr) but I can't get others (scheduling, mgmt, ops) to adjust to exploit. Any easy illustrations to help support my efforts? I've tried preaching the traffic jam idea to all within earshot...and as we say in Southern Virginia "they look at me like a cow looking at a new gate."