Theory of Constraints Five Focusing Steps
The five steps identify and elevate the system's bottleneck to raise throughput, a Flow design, then explicitly repeat the cycle, which is a genuine Learning loop rather than a single pass fix.
Eliyahu Goldratt, 1984
The origin of the framework, as the directory records it. The mark grades the origin, not this page.
Umbrex, Theory of Constraints Five Focusing Steps
The directory entry this score was read from. Umbrex is a consultancy network; its summary is the reference, not a primary source.
Scored against the twelve cells, it loads two: Flow and Learning. The other ten it leaves to you. None of Composition, Evidence, or Mastery is among them, which is the usual result in this directory: the questions an agent in the loop raises first are the ones the literature answers least.
The library already carries it as Theory of constraints, and that entry holds the full sources and the cells in detail.
This is not a summary of the framework. Umbrex has one; the link under Sources goes there.
What limits throughput, and what is supposed to happen when the line stops?
How does tacit judgment become reusable, and who owns the loop that has to close?