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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 658 EAN: 9780884271840 ISBN: 0884271846 Label: North River Press Manufacturer: North River Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 262 Publication Date: January 30, 1990 Publisher: North River Press Studio: North River Press Sales Rank: 251156 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A "must" for every manager concerned with meeting the challenges of the 21st century. You'll see the differences between data and information in a new light, and understand precisely how misunderstanding those differences can affect the quality of your decision-making process. Starting with the structure of an organization, The Haystack Syndrome ends with a detailed description of the logic that must underpin the information system for any organization to maximize effectiveness. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Goldratt without a StoryOverview The subtitle of this book is "Sifting information out of the data ocean." The point that the author tries to make throughout this book is that we have vast quantities of data and we have ever-expanding systems to organize and file that data, but data is not information. The first part of the book covers the difference between data and information and how data and information relate to the decision-making process. Chapter 14 particularly goes into a summary of the difference ... Read More Rating: - Damn, where's that needle?I'm an IT guy. I'm a huge fan of the theory of constraints (TOC) series by Goldratt. Then why do I give this book only three stars? When I picked up the book I was happy to go and read it. After reading The Critical Chain I was somewhat disappointed, but this new book was all about my thing... IT. The book reads the same as the other ones in the series, but it does not cover the excitement you had when reading them. Maybe as an IT guy I expected this book to be of great help ... Read More Rating:  - A disappointing re-hash of Goldratt's ideasThis is a sloppy mess of a book. Poorly written, repetitive, full of irritating conversational tics, it is a poor source for students of Goldratt's innovative thinking on manufacturing systems. I picked it up second-hand since it is out of print, but now regret it. There are much better books on TOC, information systems design and scheduling. Rating:  - A pearl of thought from Goldratt's genius!This is one of the best books on business administration I've ever read. OK, reading the final chapters related to information systems might be somewhat boring, but Part I alone is worth the highest praise. Why? Because it tears apart the obsolet Cost Accounting paradigms and other Jurassic sacred cows of the traditional administration that still nowadays, in the vast majority of the companies, lead business leaders to wrong decisions, with severe damage to the financial performance of companies and even ... Read More Rating: - Tony's opinion.I think Goldratt is an excellent business consultant with excellent ideas to make your business a lot more profitable. Browse for similar items by category:
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