Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Physicist, author and business leader
Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an Israeli physicist and business thinker who created the Theory of Constraints. He set out its ideas in the business novel The Goal.
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Israeli Born 1947 in Mandatory Palestine, British Empire Died 2011
About Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Goldratt was born in Israel on March 31, 1947, and died on June 11, 2011. He studied at Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University, where he earned his doctorate. He is known as the originator of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), an approach to ongoing improvement that looks for the limits holding a system back. He first presented its ideas in the business novel The Goal, published in 1984. The book has sold more than 7 million copies and is counted among the top-selling business books ever. His later methods include Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical Chain Project Management and the Thinking Processes, and he wrote ten other books related to TOC. He founded Goldratt Consulting and TOC for Education, a nonprofit that brings these ideas to teachers and their students.