A Good Strategy & Tactic Tree


(2016)

Jelena Fedurko


The book is a detailed guide to help understand and construct the most comprehensive logical tool – the Strategy and Tactic (S&T) Tree.


A Good Strategy & Tactic Tree is a rigorous textbook that presents rules, examples, and exercises in the four areas of constructing an S&T Tree:

  •  the content of the entities in the S&T boxes;
  •  the relationship between the entities within the same box;
  •  the vertical relationship between the S&T boxes;
  •  the S&T structure.

In her new book, Jelena shares her recent developments in the area of working with major TOC logical tools. Jelena’s books are an important contribution to the TOC body of knowledge.

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A Good Strategy & Tactic Tree – Table of Contents

  • About the Author
  • From the Author

Part 1. The S&T Tree Purpose, Structure, and Some History

  • Chapter 1: Why the S&T Tree?
  • Chapter 2: History of the S&T Tree, Written by Oded Cohen especially for this book
  • Chapter 3: The S&T Tree Structure

Part 2. Understanding Entities in the S&T Tree

  • Chapter 4: Why is it a Challenge to Construct an S&T Tree?
  • Chapter 5: A Common Confusion: What to Put in the Entities in an S&T Tree?
  • Chapter 6: Identifying the Pattern within the S&T Entities
  • Chapter 7: A Recap on the Content of Each Entity Type in an S&T Tree
  • Chapter 8: Analyzing S&T Entities – Exercise
  • Chapter 9: Analyzing S&T Entities – Answers

Part 3. Understanding an S&T Box 

  • Chapter 10: The S&T Rules
  • Chapter 11: Analyzing an S&T Box – Exercise
  • Chapter 12: Analyzing Necessary Assumptions – Answers
  • Chapter 13: Analyzing Strategy – Answers
  • Chapter 14: Analyzing Tactic – Answers
  • Chapter 15: Analyzing Parallel Assumptions – Answers
  • Chapter 16: Analyzing Sufficiency Assumptions – Answers 

Part 4. A Practical Approach to Constructing an S&T Tree

  • Chapter 17: How to Ensure Correct Vertical Relationship between the S&T Boxes
  • Chapter 18: A Very Simple Example of Building the Top Down Cascade of Strategy&Tactic Pairs
  • Chapter 19: Completing the S&T Tree
  • An Afterword from the Author

The book is 181 pages, soft covers.

To get information about the book and to purchase – please contact jelena@tocexpert.com orjelenafedurko.gs@gmail.com

Jelena is a TOC Expert in tocExpert, International Director of TOC Strategic Solutions, and a co-founder and co-president of TOCPA – the Theory of Constraints Practitioners Alliance.  She has worked with companies in the areas of production, project management, supply chain, distribution, and retail in more than 15 countries helping with TOC implementations.

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