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Eliyahu M. Goldratt

1947 - 2011

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Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt (Hebrew: אליהו משה גולדרט; March 31, 1947 – June 11, 2011) was an Israeli business management guru. He was the originator of the Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of Constraints (TOC), the Thinking Processes, Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and other TOC derived tools. He was the author of several business novels and non-fiction works, mainly on the application of the theory of constraints to various manufacturing, engineering, and other business processes. The processes are typically modeled as resource flows, the constraints typically represent limits on flows. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eliyahu M. Goldratt is the 136th most popular engineer (down from 128th in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Israel (up from 194th in 2019) and the most popular Israeli Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Eliyahu M. Goldratt ranks 136 out of 389Before him are Léon Charles Thévenin, Flaminio Bertoni, Li Kui, Georgy Shpagin, Christian Otto Mohr, and Claude Dornier. After him are Johan August Brinell, Joseph M. Juran, Alexandre Darracq, John Loudon McAdam, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, and Pierre-Émile Martin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Eliyahu M. Goldratt ranks 252Before him are Daishiro Yoshimura, William Atherton, Ján Pivarník, James Dyson, Sogyal Rinpoche, and Michel Sardou. After him are Emmylou Harris, Andréa Ferréol, Malcolm Ranjith, Nick Castle, Charlie Hickcox, and Godfrey Chitalu. Among people deceased in 2011, Eliyahu M. Goldratt ranks 132Before him are Lena Nyman, Josefa Iloilo, Charles Napier, Abdul Fatah Younis, Anatole Abragam, and Varkey Vithayathil. After him are Jack Kevorkian, Cy Twombly, Lazar Mojsov, Frederick Chiluba, María Elena Walsh, and Ali Saibou.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Eliyahu M. Goldratt ranks 187 out of 466Before him are Ahmed Jibril (1938), Dalia Itzik (1952), Yuval Ne'eman (1925), Shulamit Aloni (1928), Rehavam Ze'evi (1926), and Safra Catz (1961). After him are Daliah Lavi (1942), Uzi Narkiss (1925), Alexander of Judaea (-100), Arnon Milchan (1944), Amir Pnueli (1941), and Dan Halutz (1948).

Among ENGINEERS In Israel

Among engineers born in Israel, Eliyahu M. Goldratt ranks 1After him are Yaakov Ziv (1931).