As you may have heard, we just started a new blog at www.prochain.com/prochain_blog. Both Andreas Scherer and myself will be writing posts. By involving Dr. Scherer and by putting it on the ProChain web site I believe we’ll do a much better job of creating regular posts that are of interest to a large number of readers. I encourage you to check the site frequently.

I don’t expect to add more posts to this Billion Dollar Solution blog unless I have something specifically relating to The Billion Dollar Solution. In fact, I expect to transfer some of the content of this site to the ProChain site over the next few months.

Thanks for reading, and I hope we’ll continue to hear from you!

Rob Newbold

It has been a while since I’ve written anything here. Lack of focused time is the easy excuse, and there has been a lot going on, but I’ve also felt a need to write everything as an article. I’m going to try being a little less formal and see how that works.

Some of the things that have been happening over the last few months:

• We held our 10th annual Critical Chain conference last week in Philadelphia. With a keynote from Dr. Robert Cialdini (I highly recommend his books Influence and Yes), presentations from Dr. James Holt and Dr. Eric Morfin and from employees of Roche, Intel, Raytheon, and Abbott Labs (among others), I thought it was a great conference. That was borne out by participant feedback. Thanks to all who helped make this such a wonderful event! I can’t wait until next year.
• I recently completed a chapter for a forthcoming TOC Handbook from McGraw-Hill edited by Jim Cox and John Schlier. My chapter is called “Making Change Stick.” In it I’ve expanded on some of the ideas that have appeared here and in The Billion Dollar Solution. Last I heard, there were over forty contributing authors.
• Our Version 10 software is coming along well. It allows some valuable changes to the traditional approach to critical chain scheduling, so stay tuned for more information.
• I’ll be speaking about change management on 18 November at the upcoming Tokyo conference of the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO), see http://www.tocico.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageID=3639 for more information.
• I read quite a few books this summer, will comment on a few here.

More soon.

On Wednesday, 25 March 2009, I’ll be conducting a webinar for the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOC-ICO). To find out more, check http://www.tocico.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageID=3684. I plan on showing how the Cycle of Results can be used to increase the chances of success of your change initiatives.