Book review - the goal

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MBA Level Operations Management Book Report: For Instructions and requirements please read uploaded Book Report Instructions (Word Document).

Book: The Goal Format: 4-page, 1.5 spacing, 12pt Time Roman Font. Requirement: A summary of the book (exposition of lean principles used in the book): You may summarize the book focusing on the following questions: • "A business system's performance is determined by its bottleneck performance." What are the "metapharos" Goldratt uses to illustrate this principle? • "Things average out," or do they? • We should target 100% utilization of all resources, agree or disagree?

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The assignment is part of Operations Management is about a book review. Title of the book is "Goal". This book has been written by Dr. Eliyahu Goldartt. The book has been appreciated by many as one of those books which offers an insight into the operations and strategic capacity planning. Further details about this book's review are given in the solution.

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