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Eliyahu M. Goldrattmmnj

Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an Israeli physicist and business writer who developed the Theory of Constraints and wrote the business novel The Goal.

1947 to 2011The Theory of ConstraintsThe business novel The GoalCritical Chain Project ManagementThe Drum-Buffer-Rope method

Born: 31 March 1947, Mandatory Palestine
Died: 11 June 2011, Israel
Occupation: physicist, economist, engineer, writer
Education: Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv University
Founded: Goldratt Consulting

Eliyahu M. Goldrattmmnj was born in 1947 in Mandatory Palestine

Goldratt was born on March 31, 1947, in Mandatory Palestine. He came from a rabbinic family and was the son of Avraham Yehuda Goldratt. He attended a religious high school in Bnei Brak.

He earned a bachelor's degree at Tel Aviv University. He then received a master's degree and a doctorate from Bar-Ilan University.

After helping Israeli manufacturers, he joined Creative Output, which sold the production scheduling software OPT. In 1984 he published The Goal, a novel about a manager running a troubled factory. The shareholders later fired him, and around 1985 he founded the Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute, named after his father.

At the institute he developed the Thinking Processes, launched publicly in 1991, and Critical Chain Project Management. He retired from the institute in 1997. In the early 2000s he created the Goldratt Group and the Viable Vision initiative.

He kept writing books, including The Choice with his daughter Efrat in 2008. Goldratt died of lung cancer at his home in Israel on June 11, 2011.