Uma avaliação crítica do programa Visão Viável da Teoria das Restrições

Abstract

In spite of any other tasks that commercial organizations have, the main goal to be reached is profit. In the aim to reach that, companies make use of strategies that are translated in tactical steps which follow implicitly or explicitly the orientation of a the-ory. This theory is always a rational projection of reality. The effectiveness of the adopted strategies results, in first place, from the correspondence between the adopted theory and the reality. The adopted theory must be capable to describe the reality, to indicate ways to intervene with it and to make forecasts of the results of this interference. In second place, the effectiveness of the strategies depends on an ap-propriated formularization adjusted for the particular conditions of the environment where it will be applied. In third place, the effectiveness of the strategy depends on objective actions that transform the reality accordingly to the tasks to be reached. The program Viable Vision of the Theory of Constraints is one of these strategi