Delivering the work: projects planned and tracked, flow through constraints, and value moving through networks of suppliers.
Clusters
Managing projects
- Origins of Modern Project Management — where today’s tools came from
- Scientific Management — Taylor’s origins of work measurement, and its limits
- Work Breakdown Structure — decomposing a project into manageable pieces
- Project Scheduling — Gantt charts, dependencies and milestones
- Earned Value Management — comparing planned, earned and actual cost
- Cost-Based Bidding — pricing a bid from a costed schedule
Flow and constraints
- Theory of Constraints — the five focusing steps
- Dependent Events and Statistical Fluctuation — why balanced plants underperform
- Lemonade Stand Simulation — pricing, inventory and quality decisions in a toy business
Supply chains and global operations
- Supply Chain Management — coordinating the flow of material, information and money
- Clockspeed — industries evolve at different speeds, and supply chains must keep up
- Cross-Cultural Operations — lessons from a foreign-owned factory in the American Midwest
How this map connects
- Upstream: Systems and Quality Map · Product Development Map
- Downstream: Business and Strategy Map
- Home: GIEL Knowledge Vault