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The 3 Obstacles: How to identify,
overcome, and exploit them
by
James Ignizio Ph.D.
Are you, your firm, or organization reeling from
the aftershocks of yet another failed management fad? Did you know that there
are more management and self-help fads than fad diets ... and that their
failure, disappointment, and abandonment rates are even worse? Consider, as
just one example, the matter of manufacturing management fads. Over the past
sixty years more than fifty such fads have been introduced – often with great
fanfare – and yet the performance of our nation’s factories, supply chains, and
business processes have yet to exhibit any significant – or in particular –
sustainable improvement. Nor have the decisions made in company boardrooms, our
Ivory Towers, the halls of Congress, or the corridors of the Pentagon been
perceptibly enhanced by the introduction of such schemes. Management and
self-help schemes address the symptoms of problems when what is needed is to
identify and then overcome their causes. Those causes are invariably
Unnecessary Complexity, Excessive Variability, and Intellectual Myopia ... The
Three Obstacles that must be identified and surmounted if there is to be any
possibility of the successful and, in particular, sustainable achievement of
one’s goals. This book describes how this may be accomplished.
About the
Author
James Ignizio is the author of nineteen books and
several hundreds of articles. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial
Engineering, a Fellow of the Operational Research Society of Britain, and a
Fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Sciences. He is also a
Distinguished Alumnus of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
at Virginia Tech and recipient of the First Hartford Prize. Dr. Ignizio is
Founder and Principal of the Institute for Resource Management. Prior to that
he served as an Internal Consultant and Staff Scientist at the Intel
Corporation, Professor and Chair of Systems Engineering at the University of
Virginia, Professor and Chair of Industrial Engineering at the University of
Houston, and Professor of Industrial Engineering at Penn State. He has also
been a Visiting Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, the Helsinki School
of Economics (now Aalto University School of Business) and the U.S. Army
Logistics Management College. In addition, he has held senior management level
positions in the U.S. Aerospace industry. Dr. Ignizio has served as both an
external and internal consultant to more than 100 firms and his courses in
Intelligent Decision Systems and Management Science have been attended by
several thousands of individuals over the past three decades. He has also held
the position of series editor (in Management Science) for Kluwer-Nijhoff
Publishing and has served on the editorial boards of Omega, Journal of
Large-Scale Systems, Information and Decision Technologies, Computers and
Operations Research, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, and the
International Series in Operations Research and Management Science. Dr.
Ignizio’s primary interest is, and has been for a half-century, that of
exploring the vital role provided by means of a holistic approach to
decision-making. This book, The Three Obstacles, represents an attempt to
present that topic in a readable and yet comprehensive form.
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