For an organization to have a rapid process of on-going improvement, certain basic questions need to be answered faster and more effectively. The Jonah Program is for individuals and management teams who want to accelerate the improvement process in their area of responsibility or throughout their organization. It is also for those who want to accelerate the improvement process in a subject matter or specific area of interest. The Jonah Program focuses participants' common sense and intuition through the Theory Of Constraints' Thinking Processes. The results are detailed answers to each of the three questions for the selected subject.
Participants also gain the tools needed to apply the same rigorous process to other subject matter.
The process begins with each individual defining the subject matter for analysis. Using these definitions to establish the boundaries of their topic, participants verbalize problems or Undesirable Effects that exist within their subject matter. Using the Evaporating Cloud, participants learn how to identify and construct conflicts for several of the problems. They then learn how to find the deeper conflict that is at the core of the other conflicts. This Core Conflict appears to underlie the existence of most, or all, of the subject matter's Undesirable Effects.