The goal of the decalogue is to provide a conceptual framework and a set of tools which allows organizations to:

 
    manage  organizations effectively
    foster  a continuous improvement attitude in people
    develop  very focused business strategies that are long-term and knowledge-based
 

Prediction is possible only within a system in a state of statistical control.

Achieving such a state enhances our possibilities of getting maximum performance from our system.

Indeed, the performance of any stable system is limited by a very small number of factors - in most cases only one. We call these limiting factors 'constraints'.

Managing a stable system effectively passes through the effective management of its constraints. Moreover, constraints are not only internal to the system; very often what constrains our performance is our inability to sell what we are able to produce.

Continuous improvement of our organization's performance can only be sustained over time by  company-wide continuous learning .
This learning  must result in a consistent and synchronized set of actions.

Accordingly, the steps of the decalogue are the following:

 1  Establishing the goal of the system, the units of measurement and the operating measurements

  2   Seeing the system

 3  Making the system stable

 4  Identifyng  the constraint and carry out the Five Focusing Steps

  5  Implementing buffer management

  6  Reducing the variability of the constraint and the main processes

  7  Creating a suitable management structure

 8   Eliminating the external constraint: selling the excess capacity

 9  Bringing the constraint inside the organization when possible

10 Setting up a continuous learning program