Talk:Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Change
AFAIK Dr Goldratt is no longer associated with http://www.goldratt.com following a major organizational upheaval a good few years ago.

His website is now: http://toc-goldratt.com/

I have amended the main page to reflect this.

antoine —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.211.3.106 (talk • contribs) 07:32, January 18, 2007

Goldratt is now (from 2004 on) heading the Goldratt Group: http://www.goldrattgroup.com

Hrbaptista (talk) 22:36, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Neutrality
Some of this article does not seem to be NPOV to me. For instance, the sentance in the introduction "Goldratt applies the essence of the scientific method[3],[4] to solve problems of people and organizations." sounds like a compliment. The article on Theory of Constraints gives the impression that these claims may be akin to advertising.

Also, a lot of things are capitalized in ways which may be inappropriate. E.g., why is "Theory of Constraints" capitalized when "scientific method" is not? I don't think it is the title of a published work or other sort of proper name.

Dhollm (talk) 12:34, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. Too much is sourced solely by his own books.  We need additional independent, reliable sources to show that this material is being presented neutrally. --Ronz (talk) 17:43, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Theory of constraints  (TOC) should be bold not initial caps. That is an issue of format not neutrality. Similarly, special relativity is the name of the theory not of the paper. Scientific method, as used here, is a broad collection of precepts, similar to evolution or relativity, not a specific formulation. That should have neither bold nor initial caps. What the article lacks regarding neutrality is any substantive presentation of contrary views. A bias is reasonable early on sinc, typically, only an advocate or opponent is going to consider a topic important. This topic is sufficiently esoteric that unbiased sources are unlikely. However, the average reader should be given some balanced insight into the names and claims of the detractors. 157.127.124.14 (talk) 21:29, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Birthday
I'm having a hard time finding a reliable source for his birthday. Looks like even his consulting company has changed it a few times recently, but they currently say March 31, 1947. --Ronz (talk) 02:40, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Pictures of the grave I visited the grave of my father last week, at Horashim Kibutz, and was surprised to find the new grave of Dr Goldratt. I was not aware that he passed away recently. I took some pictures of the grave since it is different, and thought that it might be interesting to post here. I couldn't find out how to attach a file so if someone will contact me at my email yaron.s@solaredge.com I will be happy to provide the pictures.

Notability
The page says there's a question about Dr. Goldratt's notability. As of today "The Goal" is #725 in Books at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0884271781), almost 30 years after first publication.

He brought the Theory of Constraints to the world:
 * http://www.bexcellence.org/Theory-of-Constraints.html
 * http://www.focusedperformance.com/toc01.html
 * http://www.ciras.iastate.edu/library/toc/
 * http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/methods_goldratt_theory_of_constraints.html

The Theory of Constraints has met with at least some acceptance and success:
 * http://www.dbrmfg.co.nz/
 * http://pinnacle-strategies.com/blog/2009/08/a-%E2%80%9Ctypical%E2%80%9D-theory-of-constraints-implementation/

I'm not a regular Wikipedia contributor, I'm not familiar with how to do this, and I found these things with less than an hour's research. If I could find this, a lot more could be found. Therefore, my opinion is that Dr. Goldratt is notable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevelitt To the best of my knowledge, everything in the article is true 109.66.69.157 (talk) 02:16, 13 March 2013 (UTC) (talk • contribs) 01:23, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The relevant guideline is WP:BIO. If you think some of the links you mention above meet our reliable source criteria, add them as references to verify information in the article or expand it.
 * Given the current references in the article, I've removed the notability tag. --Ronz (talk) 20:22, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
 * This template is not meant to be a permanent resident on any article. Remove this template whenever:
 * There is consensus on the talkpage or the NPOV Noticeboard that the issue has been resolved
 * It is not clear what the neutrality issue is, and no satisfactory explanation has been given
 * In the absence of any discussion, or if the discussion has become dormant.

Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 00:07, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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