Comments for Watching Eli in action

Comment from Jack on 2005-06-17

2005-06-17T15:39:58Z

Interesting that I was writing this article at the same time you were writing yours:

http://zo-d.com/blog/archives/rant/i-come-to-you-beyond-belief.html

I'm not disputing the viable vision thing. I don't know enough about it to say much, but the way you talk about it makes it sound almost like hypnosis. Is that a good thing?

Comment from Bob on 2005-06-17

2005-06-17T17:33:24Z

The baseline offer is to turn current annual sales into net profits in four years!

Comment from jackvinson on 2005-06-17

2005-06-17T18:06:53Z

Jack D, That's why I made reference to "drinking the Kool-Aid." However, the Goldratt ideas have been hammered out over 20+ years since The Goal was originally published. And not every company that gets to the point of the Viable Vision offer will get one.

The thing I found fascinating was Goldratt's ability to walk the client through their number (current sales, current manufacturing capacity, opportunities for the Mafia Offer, etc) and have the results seem nearly obvious. At the same time, it's not obvious because companies haven't been able to do this on their own.

And to clarify for BobV. The Viable Vision is that in four years your profits will be at least what your sales are today. If you make $3 MM in sales today, in four years the Viable Vision will take you to $3 MM in profits with the corresponding changes in sales and operations to get you there.

Comment from Ed on 2005-06-24

2005-06-24T06:14:58Z

Umm...not exactly very updated when their whole Viable Vision schedule stops at 2004.
http://www.tocc.com/VVschedule%2004.htm

Comment from Bryan on 2005-09-29

2005-09-29T22:00:18Z

It seems that the status of the existing VV offers are rather hush hush. Does anyone have any information regarding the progress of any VV projects?

Comment from Mike on 2006-11-09

2006-11-09T15:41:18Z

Our company is a VV company. We are fairly early stage but progress and change has been dramatic. We wouldn't drink the Kool Aid unless we first tasted the flavor and knew what we were drinking. We wouldn't spend the money either.