Delighted to hear your comment and to read your own thoughts.
Agree with your sentiments. As you note, we are strongly influenced by Goldratt, but I found extreme frustration at applying his ideas in large organisations where departments can’t bear to be “system thinkers”.

As an example about batch size that we met with a client. The lean people were pushing for smaller batch size, but when the customer was eventually asked what they would like, the batch size was increased!

James

P.s. Are you directly involved in the Viable Vision activiites?

good stuff. may i offer two more considerations?

http://consultski.blogspot.com/2007/03/batch-size.html

-ski