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Eli Goldratt's Necessary But Not Sufficient

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It is used not only to create competitive advantage, but also as the basic foundation for many industries. However, technology itself does not give solutions to problems, although it may  create them. It is the way technology is used that may be seen as giving the potential for solutions, but it still remains the way that it is used that  is the key. In "Necessary but Not Sufficient" by Eli Goldratt this is the topic discussed. Tackled through the use of a fictitious company; BGSoft, the study looks at how  technology may be used, the book is limited to an Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) software vendor, but the scope may be equally applied to other companies such as the dot com  companies. The style may be seen as fairly limiting as the book is written as a novel, with the situations and discussion of the characters, and as a novel  would not stand alone, however as the purpose of the book it to teach and not to entertain this maybe be seen as an interesting and entraining way of teaching  and demonstrating the lessons. This also makes to book easier to learn form that a traditional business book. Background This is the fourth book written by Goldratt in  his " Theory of Constraints Business" novels. The book itself focuses on a fictitious ERP software seller. The company used is a successful company, with a fast rate if growth  of 40% per annum, however all is not well. The company is facing a situation where they are approaching market saturation in thier own target market. Their target market is  the large corporations. In facing these problems there is the potential that the saturated market place will stop the 40% growth rate and then impact on the share price as