The Gartner Group recognizes the need for TOC:
"The key to growing innovation is to optimize the overall performance of the value chain by improving the components themselves and the links between them. This requires an understanding of the Theory of Constraints which is based on the implicit assumption that all systems are comprised of individual steps that perform a value-added function, which ultimately results in some kind of outcome."
Gartner Research Note, 1-22-02, Decision Framework, DF-15-1868, C. Young.