Call for Proposals - Semi-Finalists Chosen
The Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt Foundation board has decided upon the semi-finalists from the 2012 Call for Proposals conducted in December 2011. These top nine semi-finalists will be competing for a chance to win the a grand prize of $20,000 which will be awarded at the 2012 TOCICO International Conference in Chicago. The nine semi-finalists are listed below. Good luck!
| NAME | PRESENTATION TITLE | COUNTRY |
| Guilherme Venanzi de Almeida (with Humberto Baptista & Fernando Bernardi de Souza) | "Two Sides of the Same Coin – a sharper look on two organizational cultures" | Brazil |
| Kevin Kohls | "The Toyota Way and TOC - Leveraging Benefits, Avoiding Pitfalls" | USA |
| Puneet Kulraj | "Managing high availability at low inventory in environment of wide variety of SKUs with a norm of one e.g. fashion retail" | India |
| Shimeon Pass (with Boaz Ronen) | "Value-Based Project Execution" | Israel |
| Boaz Ronen (with Shimeon Pass & Shany Karmy) | "Standing on Shoulders of Giants: Applying TOC to Law Court Systems" | Israel |
| Lisa Scheinkopf (with Amir Schragenheim & Yuji Kishira) | "Linear High Touch Time: A New TOC Application" | USA |
| Eli Schragenheim | "Research and Development of a Platform and Related Processes for Decision Making encompassing Finance, Operations and Sales" | Israel |
| Koichi Ujigawa | "A new buffer management approach for CCPM" | Japan |
| Kelvyn Youngman | "The systemic cloud and the layers of resistance - hiding in plain sight" | New Zealand |
Teaching the World to Think
The TOCICO board wishes to honor Dr. Goldratt’s commitment to ever flourishing TOC knowledge and the TOCICO by forming the Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt charitable foundation. The foundation funds fellowships in applied research for the practical application and advancement of knowledge of the theory of constraints. To encourage and reward continued development of new knowledge, TOCICO is pleased to announce Fellowships in memory of Dr. Goldratt. These fellowships will be awarded for "Applied Research” that significantly advances the TOC knowledge and will be funded by businesses and corporations.
The recipients will present their Applied Research as part of the annual TOCICO Upgrade Workshop in 2012. Realization Technologies, a provider of TOC CCPM solutions, has come forward to initate the funding for the foundation.
Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt had a lifelong goal to teach the world to think. His vision for the formation of the TOCICO was that TOC knowledge be ever flourishing. To enable this, Dr. Goldratt donated a two day upgrade session for the TOC community each year for the past eight years just prior to the TOCICO conference. This year as the community prepared for the 9th International conference it became apparent that Dr. Goldratt would not be able to deliver this new knowledge in person. In his truly inspiring dedication and sacrifice to the TOCICO, Dr. Goldratt focused solely on bringing his new knowledge to the TOCICO conference even during his final days. He personally invited current, past and candidate TOCICO Board members to Israel to learn the stunning advances in TOC that he had planned on sharing at his upgrade. This standing on the shoulders of giants approach will be used for all foundation submissions.
Ongoing, the foundation will be funded by private and corporate contributions. A committee of corporate CEO’s, the TOCICO board of directors and respected academics will select the fellowships to fund. The results of the fellowship will be presented at each international conference. This foundation will enable a new process that the TOC community can use to continually upgrade the knowledge created by the giants before us and allow each of us to stand on their shoulders to see even further.