In 1999, eliyahu-goldratt launched the goldratt-satellite-program, a video lecture series distributed to study groups around the world. The program represented a deliberate strategy for scaling TOC transmission beyond what personal workshops and consulting engagements could reach.
The format was structured around recorded lectures covering the full theory-of-constraints body of knowledge — production, thinking-processes, critical-chain-project-management, distribution, and the underlying philosophy of inherent-simplicity. Local study groups would convene to watch the sessions together, discuss, and work through applications. The satellite delivery mechanism allowed Goldratt to teach simultaneously across continents without traveling.
The program was significant not just as a delivery mechanism but as a content milestone. It forced a systematic presentation of TOC's accumulated tools and their interrelationships — the current-reality-tree, evaporating-cloud, future-reality-tree, and buffer-management — in a sequence designed for practitioners rather than academic readers. This structured curriculum became a reference standard for subsequent TOC training programs.
The goldratt-satellite-program accelerated TOC's penetration into regions and industries that had not been well served by English-language books and North American consulting. It helped build the international practitioner community that would later organize through tocico, and established a model of distributed study-group learning that persists in TOC education today.