Master Class TOCPA Paris March 2018 by Jelena Fedurko-Cohen and Oded Cohen

Master Class "Building Company Strategy and Tactics for breakthrough results"

On Friday 30^th of March 2018, in Marris Consulting offices

Master Class details

Theory of Constraints (TOC) has its own approach towards developing strategy and tactics for an organization. The same as other approaches, TOC treats tactics as sets of actions within the framework of a strategy. However, the similarity ends here.

The major difference lies in the three areas:

(1)    the structural relationship between the Strategy and its Tactics:

• the Strategy  is defined as THE WHAT TO ACHIEVE, while

• the Tactic is THE WAY TO ACHIEVE THE STRATEGY – THE HOW;

(2)    the multi-level top-down cascade structure of Strategy-Tactic(s) pairs where every lower level of Strategy&Tactics is subordinated to achieve its higher level on the way to achieving the ultimate goal of the organization for which the strategy and tactics are developed  

and

(3)    the explicit focus on identifying, verbalizing and recording

• the necessity for the tactics, as well as

• the clear justification that the tactics will bring about the intended result - the strategy.

In the master class we will:

• look in detail in the outlined differences of the TOC approach to developing strategy and tactics for an organization;

• present the TOC logical tool for constructing the top-down Strategy&Tactic structure – the S&T Tree;

• demonstrate the process and the mechanics of using the S&T Tree.       

We will present in the master class the outcome of six years of our development work with companies helping them achieve breakthrough results through clear structuring what they want to achieve and how to achieve it. 

Jelena Fedurko-Cohen – bio

Jelena is a Co-Founder and Co-President of TOC Practitioners Alliance TOCPA, CEO and Senior TOC Expert at tocExpert, co-founder of tocExpert ThinkCamp – an international center for further TOC development, the tocExpert Network and TOC Practitioners Worldwide group on Facebook. 

Jelena has been involved in TOC since 1999. She is a TOC expert, trainer and consultant. She provides TOC implementation support in production, supply chain, change management, sales and marketing, as well as developing strategies and tactics. Jelena has worked in various countries all over the world, including Japan, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, India, China, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and other countries.

Jelena is the author of four advances books on TOC Thinking Processes: Behind the Cloud (2011), Through Clouds to Solutions (2013), Typical mistakes in working with TOC Logical Tools (2014), A Good Strategy & Tactic Tree (2016). Together with Oded Cohen Jelena has co-authored the book Theory of Constraints Fundamentals (2012). She regularly presents in the international conferences, has many publications and video materials, and has contributed to a number of books on TOC, the TOCICO Dictionary, and the bank of TOC materials on TOCPA portal. Jelena regularly writes in the blog Serious Talk about TOC.

Sites:

TOCPA www.tocpractice.com

tocExpert www.tocexpert.com

blog http://tocexpert.com/blog-en/

ThinkCamp http://tocexpert.com/tocexpert-thinkcamp/

Books http://tocexpert.com/books/

Links to Jelena’s  videos from some of the recent conferences

http://tocpractice.com/video/2017/04/09/insights-into-working-with-udesand-clouds-2/

http://tocpractice.com/video/2017/03/16/working-with-layers-of-resistance-2/

http://tocpractice.com/video/2017/01/05/how-the-toc-thinking-processes-can-be-integrated-in-strategic-changing-and-designing-systems-2/