Oded Cohen
Oded Cohen is one of the world’s well known names in Theory of Constrains (TOC). He has 30 years of experience in developing, teaching and implementing TOC methodology, solutions and implementation processes working directly with Dr. Goldratt all over the world. Among the countries to which Oded brings his expertise are the USA, Canada, Japan, India, China, the UK, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Columbia, Chile, Peru and many others.
Oded is an Industrial engineer with MSc. in Operations Research from the Israeli Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He was one of the developers of OPT – the logistical software for production scheduling, the TOC thinking processes and the TOC management skills.
Oded has brought his expertise to educating a whole generation of TOC practitioners and implementers. He is known for his passion for working with people who love TOC.
Oded joined Goldratt Group in 2002, and as GS International Director Oded has greatly contributed to developing Goldratt Schools.
Oded is a Co-Founder and Co-President of TOC Practitioners Alliance - TOCPA, an international organisation whose aim is to share TOC experience with those who wnat to apply TOC. Oded is a partner in Goldratt UK, and a partner and International Director of TOC Strategic Solutions.
Oded, together with Domenico Lepore, wrote Deming & Goldratt: The Theory of Constraints and the System of Profound Knowledge - The Decalogue.
The new full edition of Oded’s book Ever Improve – A Guide to Managing Production the TOC Way, published in June 2010, in addition to describing the Make-to-Order Solution, also includes two full new parts: the MTO implementation and a full description of Make-to-Availability Solution.
Eli Schragenheim
Eli Schragenheim started his way into TOC in 1/1/85, when he got the job of "programming a video game for adults that would teach them how to think". By the way, Eli never programmed a game before. In retrospect, it was an advantage.
Eli Schragenheim came to programming in 1980 after ten years of being a TV director. Before that he finished his undergraduate degree in Mathematics, and while being a TV director he also did his MBA in Tel-Aviv University.
So, in 1/1/85 he joined Creative-Output, a software company with a difference. The software was called OPT, a very sophisticated software for scheduling the shop floor. The software had challenged some very common paradigms and Dr. Eli Goldratt, then the CEO of the company, realized that software is not the right tool to challenge ideas that were taught in the universities and were well ingrained in the minds of most managers. The Goal came up in 1984 and Dr. Goldratt looked for another tool to help people realize the flawed paradigms. The OPT game came out at 1985, to be followed by several "simulators" that were developed by Eli Schragenheim to facilitate the introduction of new ideas. Then, Eli Schragenheim was kindly requested to deliver the first workshop based on the simulators. So, he became as educator, and then also a consultant.
In the last twenty-two years Eli Schragenheim has taught, talked and consulted in more than fifteen countries, including the US, Canada, India, China and Japan. He was a partner in the A.Y. Goldratt Institute, left this role in 1992, became a free-lance consultant, while developing his own MICSS simulator. Then in 1998, when his first book came out, he joined Dr. Goldratt again.
Eli Schragenheim is now a director in The Goldratt Schools. In the last five years he taught mainly experienced consultants in order to make them TOC application experts for the viable-vision implementation.
Eli is the author of Management Dilemmas. Together with William H. Dettmer he wrote Manufacturing at Warp Speed. Eli collaborated with Carol A. Ptak on ERP, Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain, and with Dr. Goldratt and Carol Ptak on Necessary But Not Sufficient.
Together with Bill Dettmer and Prof. Wayne Patterson, Eli wrote a new book, Supply Chain Management at Warp Speed: Integrating the System from End to End, which includes all the new developments of TOC in the area of logistics and supply chain management. The book was published in early 2009.
Srikanth Mokshagundam
Dr. Mokshagundam (Shri) L. Srikanth Obtained his Ph. D. in Physics from Boston University. After a brief tenure as Associate Professor at Boston University he joined Dr. Eli Goldratt in 1979. He is a partner in the Goldratt Group, an international organization headed by Dr. Eli Goldratt and dedicated to helping organizations and individuals achieve breakthrough improvements through the creation and dissemination of new knowledge. He is currently head of Goldratt Schools for North America.
He has nearly three decades of experience with industrial enterprises and ways to improve their performance. Shri was a senior director of the center for e-business excellence at i2 technologies. Prior to this position he was a director in i2's product management group. Before joining i2 technologies, he was co-founder and managing principal of Spectrum Management Group.
Shri has helped companies improve delivery performance, reduce lead times and reduce investment in inventories and resources. His experience covers a broad cross-section of industries including Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Furniture, Textiles, Consumer and Industrial Products. Companies range from Fortune 100 companies such as General Electric, Ford, General Motors, United Technologies to small family owned organizations.
Dr. Srikanth has authored several books including:
- Regaining Competitiveness: Putting 'The Goal' To Work - with Harold E.A. Cavallaro, 2nd revised edition, North River Press, Great Barrington, 1993;
- Synchronous Manufacturing: Principles for World Class Excellence - with Prof. Michael Umble, Southwestern Publishing, 1991;
- Measurements for Effective Decision Making - with Scott A. Robertson, Spectrum Publishing Company, Guilford, 1995;
- Synchronous Management: Principles for Profit-Based Manufacturing For The 21st Century, Volume 0ne - with Prof. Michael Umble, Spectrum Publishing Company, Guilford, 1997;
- Synchronous Management: Principles for Profit-Based Manufacturing For The 21st Century, Volume two, Implementation Issues and Case Studies - with Prof. Michael Umble, Spectrum Publishing Company, Guilford, 1997.
- He is a contributor to "Streamlined - Principles for building and managing a lean supply chain" by Prof. Mandyam Srinivasan.
Alan Leader
Dr. Alan Leader (1927-2012) received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Business and Economics from the University of Rochester. He worked in production control and purchasing for nine years, living The Goal from a 'cost' perspective.
After earning his doctorate (Management, Economics, Quantitative Analysis, Sociology and Administrative Science) from Indiana University with the assistance of a Ford Fellowship, he taught Management at Western Michigan University, earning tenure and the rank of Professor.
He was appointed Dean of the College of Business and Public Administration at the University of Guam. During his eight years there, he served on the Guam Economic Development Authority Board and also, under the United Nations, worked with several Micronesian states in preparation for their autonomy or an alternative political status.
Subsequently, he became Dean of the School of Business and Economics at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut. He became acquainted with the early work of Dr. Eli Goldratt, studied at the Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute, becoming licensed in Production, Distribution, and Project Management, and taught there.
Dr. Leader was named Dean Emeritus by Southern Connecticut State University. He was a member of the AGI/JEMBA development team, moved to Seattle, and taught TOC at Seattle University.
He wrote articles and books on planning, decision making, ethics, public administration, organizational dysfunctions and successes. He was a Certified Mediator in the State of Washington, active in the University Rotary Club, and consulted under the name Leader Associates.
Dr. Leader was a Jonah's Jonah and for many years taught on the faculty of the Goldratt Schools. He was Chair of the TOCICO Thinking Process Committee. He edited and contributing to numerous TOC books.
Martin Powell
Martin Powell has spent over 20 years of his professional life in assisting organisations, groups and individuals to improve performance. Having had a successful career as a partner in a medium sized accountancy firm, where he specialised in systems based advice; he formed his own consulting business focused on management improvement. In 1994 his journeys of discovery lead him to the Goldratt Institute in the UK, where he learned about TOC. Since then, as a partner in Goldratt UK, his work has been devoted to using TOC for education and consulting assignments in Europe, USA, Japan, India, China and Latin America for manufacturing, distribution, project management and service delivery organisations. Working in conjunction with Oded Cohen, he has established and supported TOC experts in many countries. Since 2002 Martin has been part of Goldratt Group helping to establish the infrastructure and processes, whilst supporting Goldratt Schools globally.
“When I first started to learn about TOC I loved the simplicity, clarity and logical basis. As I learned from Oded Cohen, the core values behind the methodology are just as important and I knew that in Goldratt UK I had found a natural place to pursue my personal goal of helping others to realise their own potential. Leading any group or individual to discover and apply the commonsense of TOC is highly rewarding and is always a growth experience for my personal process of ongoing improvement. Being part of the Goldratt Group is a true win-win.”
Philip Viljoen
Regional Director, South Africa and India
Philip Viljoen is the Principal of Goldratt Schools for Africa and India and a successful implementer of all the TOC solutions. He is currently responsible for the development of external and internal TOC consultants for Goldratt Consulting as well as offering Goldratt Schools programmes.
He teaches Strategic Project Management at the University of Pretoria where he previously taught Operations and Production Management, Project Portfolio Management and Project Management at post graduate level. He was programme manager for the Masters degree in Technology Management at the School of Engineering and Technology Management.
He attained the degrees Hons. B Eng (Civil) at the University of Stellenbosch in 1979, and in 1988 the MBL at University of South Africa (UNISA). He attended the Management of Technology programme at the University of Cape Town in 1991. In 1993 he completed the International Teacher’s Programme at INSEAD, France.
He started his career as construction manager in the South African Airforce and worked as contracts manager for a period of 3 years on road surfacing projects. He then taught Business Statistics and Operations Management at the School of Business Leadership of UNISA till 1995.
He met Eli Goldratt in 1992 and became a Jonah’s Jonah in 1993.
He worked for 7 years as management consultant with the Avraham Goldratt Institute on a number of projects developing and implementing logistic system solutions and improvements using the Theory of Constraints.
Currently he is project leader on TOC projects in South Africa, coaches and mentors TOC project leaders in India and develops and coach TOC implementers in South Africa and other parts of the world.
He is registered at the Engineering Council of South Africa as Professional Engineer, is a member of the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO) and is a certified implementer in all the TOC fields of application.
He authored 3 peer-reviewed journal articles and has participated in a number of local and international conferences as well as acted as study leader for a number of Masters students at the University of Pretoria and UNISA. He also contributed to the Critical Chain sections of a textbook on Project Management.
Alejandro Fernandez
Regional Director, Latin America
Alejandro Fernandez has been a TOC Educator since 1993, as Manager of Piensalo Colombia (Think about it). He is a Political Scientist, MBA and Magister in University Management. He received his initial training as Jonah Jonah, and Licensee in Operations, MSW, CCPM at the AGI. Since year 2000 he decided to accept Eli's proposal to build Goldratt Group and now is focused in developing Goldratt Schools in Colombia. The TOC ICO has certified him as Holistic TOC Expert.
Some of the companies that have worked with Piénsalo, generating their own powerful Process Of Ongoing Improvement: Azulk (Soap), Minerales Industriales (Caolin), Coditeq (Codification), Universidad ICESI, Coveta (Strips), Plásticos Vandux (hairbrushes), Cosmecéuticos (medicated creams), Leonisa (lingerie), Ciplas (Packing), Acasa (Steel), Sicolsa (Steel), Herragro (Agricultural tools), Comfamiliar Aseguradora (Benefit Fund), Centro de Ciencia y Tecnología de Antioquia (Business Research Center), Prodesa (construction), Plasticaucho (Shoes, ribbon & foam products).
James Cox
James F. Cox III, Ph.D., TOCICO certified in Production and Supply Chain, Performance Measurement, Critical Chain, Strategy and Tactics, and Thinking Processes, CFPIM, CIRM, JONAH’s JONAH, Professor Emeritus, was the Robert O. Arnold Professor of Business in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Management from Clemson University. Prior to his tenure at UGA, he held the E. L. Lowder Professorship in the school of business at Auburn University. Prior to his academic career, he held positions in construction engineering, industrial engineering, and production planning and control. In addition to teaching Jonah workshops to the Air Force in support of its Lean Logistics efforts, he has conducted numerous academic and practitioner Theory of Constraints workshops and programs on performance measurement, production, supply chains, management skills, project management, and the thinking processes.
Dr. Cox’s research has centered on the Theory of Constraints for over twenty-five years. He has written three books on TOC— Operation Management: A Focus on Excellence (with Blackstone and Schleier), Reengineering Performance Measures (with Lockamy) and the Constraints Management Handbook (with Spencer), in addition to coauthoring an academic text for small businesses and numerous research monographs. With over 90 articles, his publications appear in Decision Sciences, Production and Operations Management Journal, International Journal of Production Research, Academy of Management Journal and Review, MIS Quarterly, Industrial Engineering, and many others. He is the coeditor of the APICS Dictionary, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th editions and an invited contributor on Constraints Management to the Production and Inventory Management Handbook
Dr. Cox has been a member of APICS for over 25 years, holding chapter, regional and national offices. He has served on the APICS Board of Directors for four years with two years as Vice President of Education-Research and has served on the APICS Educational and Research Foundation Board of Directors for nine years with four years as President. He also served on the Board of Directors of TOCICO for three years. He is a charter member of the Constraint Management SIG (APICS) and the Society of Systems Improvement. He has spoken at over 50 APICS and other professional organization chapter meetings, several regional seminars and several international conferences on Theory of Constraints. In 1997, he received the APICS Voluntary Service Award for his contributions to the field. In 2001 Dr. Cox was elected to the founding Board of Directors of the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO), a certification organization founded by Dr. Eli Goldratt. He later served as Director of Certification responsible for implementing TOCICO’s certification program.
Frances Su
Regional Director, China and Taiwan
Frances Su received her Jonah's Jonah, Management Skills Licensee, and Project Management Licensee, and Academia Associate from AGI from 1997-1999, and then was certified by TOCICO in the filed of TOC Thinking Process and Logistics Management. While she was the faculty member in the Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, as a specialist in the field of e-Learning research and development, she also in charge of the Center for Professional Advancement, since then she has been practicing for her own work, and teaching the TOC to local industries. She also became the representative for the TOC for Education in Taiwan area, later on for the Chinese Region (including mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), mainly working with schools as a whole or teaching teachers, parents, administrators and students in the TOC Thinking Tools. In the later part of 2005, She joined the Goldratt Schools for supporting the training effort in the Viable Vision, since then she has become the representative for the operation in the Chinese region, mainly establishes and supports the TOC professional community, including consultancy, academia and industries, performing management function, organizing local activities, training and consulting work for Goldratt Schools, especially by working with the newly established Chinese Goldratt Alliance (an non-profit organization) to expand and the TOC knowledge available to the market.
James R. Holt
Dr. James R. Holt, is a Clinical Professor of Engineering Management at Washington State University focusing on practical application of Organizational Behavior, Operations Research, Statistics, Engineering Economics, Simulation, Information Systems, Constraints Management to better organizations and complex systems. He was a Principal Consultant with Management Advisory Group, Inc. and a Certified Associate of the Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute. Prior to his consulting work, he was Department Head, Engineering and Environmental Management at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Dr. Holt retired from the Air Force with 20 years experience in engineering, computer and technology management. He has published many articles on supply chain management, project management, maintenance and artificial intelligence. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University, an MS in Facilities Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. specializing in Industrial Engineering / Business Administration from Texas A&M University. Dr. Holt has taught at the graduate level 18 years and has advised 88 engineering student theses and dissertations on a wide variety of topics. He has lived in the Portland area for 14 years and is active with professional and community organizations. Dr. Holt is certified in the TOC Thinking Process, TOC Operations Management, TOC Project Management and TOC Holistic Strategy by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization. He serves on the Board of Directors and Chairperson Elect for TOCICO, the Theory of Constraints Professional Certification Organization. He is happily married to Suzanne for 37+ years; they have five children and eight grandchildren.
Jelena Fedurko
Jelena’s involvement with TOC started in 1999. Jelena stared working with Goldratt Schools in 2005 and in 2008-2011 she held the position of Regional Director for Russian Speaking Regions and Europe. Jelena is a Co-Founder and Co-President of TOC Practitioners Alliance - TOCPA, an international organisation whose aim is to share TOC experience with those who wnat to apply TOC. Jelena is a partner and International Director of TOC Strategic Solutions.
Jelena develops TOC teaching material, conducts TOC trainings and provides implementation support in production, supply chain and project management. She has worked in Japan, Poland, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, India, China, Chile, Colombia, and other countries.
Jelena has authored a number of articles on TOC concepts and implementation, contributed to writing three Goldratt Schools books, gave presentations at several TOC conferences and has edited a number of TOC books. Jelena has taught in a number of comprehensive GS Programs: TOC Application Expert Programs in several countries, International TOC Expert Alex Rogo Program in Colombia, ManTOC Program in India, Strategic Solutions Program in Russia and Europe.
Jelena translated to Russian the Goldratt Satellite Program, the books The Goal, It’s Not Luck (The Goal-2), Critical Chain, and the TOC Insights.
Jelena is the author of the recently published book Behind the Cloud - Enhancing logical thinking.
Jelena graduated from Minsk State Institute of Foreign Languages (now Minsk State Linguistic University) and got her MBA from Concordia International University Estonia. Jelena is also a lecturer at Estonian Business School, Tallinn.
Charli Budd
Charlene Spoede Budd is a Professor Emeritus from Baylor University, having taught management accounting and project management classes for a number of years. She received her undergraduate degree (accounting major, Summa Cum Laude), and MBA degree from Baylor University (1972 and 1973, respectively) and her PhD from The University of Texas at Austin (1982), where she specialized in the fields of accounting, economics, and finance. She holds the following active professional designations: CPA, CMA, CFM, PMP. In addition, she is certified in all areas of the Theory of Constraints by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOC-ICO).
Her research typically involves some aspect of Theory of Constraints and has been published primarily in practitioner journals. She has been awarded three Certificates of Merit for articles published in Strategic Finance. She also has singly or co-authored publications in Industrial Marketing Management (special issue on projects), Human Systems Management Journal, Today's CPA, The Counselor, other journals, and many conference proceedings. Charlene has co-authored two accounting text books and she and current co-author, Charles Budd, have published A Practical Guide to Earned Value Project Management (Management Concepts, 2005; second edition, to include a chapter on Critical Chain, to be published in 2009) and Internal Control and Improvement Initiatives (BNA, 2007).
She is active in several professional organizations, including the Financial Executives Institute, Project Management Institute, American Accounting Association and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. In addition, she has been a member of the AICPA's Content Committee and was chair of the Business Environment and Content subcommittee of the AICPA for the past several years, assisting in the development of the new computerized CPA examination. Currently she is chair of the Finance and Metrics Committee of the TOC-ICO.
Most of her time now is devoted to research and writing, but she also is a member of the Board of Directors of a public company and owns a small consulting Company - Budd Management Systems.
Janice Cerveny
Dr. Janice Cerveny is on the faculty of Florida Atlantic University's College of Business, Department of Management, International Business and Entrepreneurship where she teaches courses in Operations Management as well as Global Strategy.
She has worked primarily in the blood banking and health care industries but also consults and trains many diverse organizations in the Theory of Constraints (TOC). She is an Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute "Jonah", "Jonahs Jonah" and is certified in all of the function-specific applications of the Theory of Constraints.
She has had a number of for profit and not-for-profit clients in the South Florida area include NCCI, Siemens Telecom Networks, Sensormatic Electronics Corporation, Office Depot, the North Broward Hospital District, Tyco (Master Black Belt training in TOC and Six Sigma) and Philips Electronics. She has most recently completed a contract with the Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C. for clinical practice managers resulting in her editing a book for Ambulatory Care Clinic Managers. Her most recent article (with Dr. Stuart Galup) "Critical Chain Project Management: Holistic Solution Aligning Quantitative and Qualitative Project Management Methods" appeared in Production and Inventory Management Vol. 43, Numbers 3 & 4, (2002, pp. 55-64). Another article, "Learning from Goldratt: Aligning to the Hospital's Core Process" co-authored with Tim Connor, President, Rodeo Performance Group, Inc. will be appearing in Healthcare Executive in July, 2007. In addition, she has facilitated numerous strategic planning and personal development workshops on conflict resolution and process improvement.
She is a member of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO). She is recognized by the latter as internationally certified to facilitate implementations of TOC applications. She is also chairman of the TOCICO's Project Management Certification Committee that grants certifications to practitioners in Critical Chain Project Management.
She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and her master's and Ph.D. from the School of Management at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Maria Cristina Sierraalta
Maria Cristina Sierraalta graduated as a Mechanical engineer from Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas. She was Certified as a Jonah by Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute and has certification in a number of applications from TOC-ICO. Maria Cristina commenced working with Goldratt in 1995 and has since successfully implemented TOC in a wide variety of organisations. She is currently responsible for TOC assignments in both Venezuela and Europe.
In the past she taught Operations Management at two universities in Venezuela, where she supervised improvement projects conducted by her students in their employers businesses. These projects brought bottom line improvements for these companies. In 2004 she taught the Goldratt Distribution knowledge to the Constraint Management Post Graduate Programme at Lazarski University in Warsaw.
Maria Cristina is currently based in the Goldratt UK office and she is a tutor for Goldratt Schools, part of the Goldratt Group.
María Cristina Sierraalta (Spanish)
Ingeniero mecánico egresada de la Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas. Obtuvo el certificado Jonah del Instituto Avraham Y. Goldratt y la certificación internacional de TOC-ICO, Estados Unidos.
Desde 1995 trabaja con Goldratt y ha implementado TOC exitosamente en varias organizaciones de Latinoamérica y Europa. Se ha desempeñado como docente de TOC en la Universidad Simón Bolívar y en la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, ambas en Caracas, y en el programa de Gerencia de Operaciones del IESA, en Caracas y Valencia (Venezuela). En 2004 impartió clases en el programa de Posgrado de la Universidad de Lazarski, Varsovia, en la especialidad de TOC para Distribución y Cadena de Suministros. Actualmente desarrolla implementaciones TOC desde la oficina de Goldratt Reino Unido y es instructora en Goldratt Schools, perteneciente al grupo Goldratt.
Roy Stratton
Dr. Roy Stratton is based in the UK and is Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University where he is actively involved in TOC related teaching, research and consultancy. He is also Programme Manager of the MSc Theory of Constraints (Health Care Management) which is delivered in collaboration with QFI Consulting who are pioneering the application of TOC in the healthcare sector. Previously Roy worked for Rolls Royce Aero Engines in an internal consultancy role and has since been actively involved in a wide range of industry-based and government funded knowledge transfer research projects. He has published widely in both professional and academic journals and has co-authored two TOC related educational books.
Roy has been awarded a BSc in Mechanical Engineering (Nottingham), an MSc in Manufacturing System Engineering (Warwick), and a PhD in Supply Chain Management (Nottingham Trent). Dr Stratton is recognized by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization in all six fields as well as being a member of the Supply Chain Logistics Examinations Committee.
Rong Kwei Li
Rong Kwei Li is a professor of Industrial Engineering and Management at National Chiao Tung Univeristy, Hsinchu, Taiwan. His academic and professional interests involve TOC and Strategic decision making. He is recognized as a Jonah’s Jonah by the AGI and is certified in the field of Thinking process and logistics management by TOCICO. In the later part of 2005, he joined the Goldratt Schools for supporting the training effort in the Viable Vision. He has published more than 60 articles in academic journal including the international Journal of Production Research, Production and Inventory Management Journal, International Journal of Computer and Industrial Engineering.
Humberto Rossetti Baptista
Humberto Rossetti Baptista, Computer Scientist, BsC and MsC at the Instituto de Matemática e Estatística of the University of São Paulo (USP), MBA at the Scuola de Direzione Aziendale (SDA) Bocconi, specialization in entrepreneurship. MBA teacher at top Brazilian schools (FIA and IPT).
15 years experience as executive and entepreneur in the IT field in multinational companies in Brasil and abroad. Goldratt Schools faculty member since 2005 in Brasil, academician and TOC practitioner certified by TOCICO with experience in TOC implementation in operations (production), distribution, mining, projects and pharmaceutical companies.
"Husband and father changing the world one person at a time"
"Scientist seeking to apply science to people's endeavors"
"Hunter of hidden assumptions"
"Teacher, student and colleague of students"
"Believer of values over tools"
Accomplice of Goldratt Schools (and Group)
Lisa Ferguson
Dr. Lisa A. Ferguson was recently elected as a board member of the TOC International Certification Organization (TOCICO). Lisa has spent years working with the top TOC experts in the world. Until June 2008, she spent a year working directly with Dr. Eli Goldratt, the founder of TOC, as his technical assistant and writer (learning how to write the way he does). Prior to that, Lisa taught full-time for Goldratt Schools (GS) for several years training consultants in different countries and the US. She was program director for the GS Supply Chain Logistics (SCL) programs in India and Japan and was in charge of developing certain training materials. In addition, Lisa was one of the five experts in the world who conducted training and upgrades of TOC experts through Goldratt Consulting (GC).
Lisa has a PhD in Operations Management from Arizona State University and an MBA in Finance and Operations Management, with a minor in Accounting, from Tulane University. Her undergraduate degree is in Chemistry with a minor in Psychology from Indiana University. Lisa taught operations management full-time in business school for ten years. The last five years of her teaching was focused only on MBA and doctoral students with a focus on practical applications.
Several years ago, Lisa and Janice Cerveny developed a systems-based TOC MBA program. Though the program was approved at one institution, Lisa's resignation to take on full-time responsibilities for Goldratt Schools precluded its being launched.
Lisa is currently the Director of Consulting for TOC Healthcare, Inc. TOCH is focused on implementing TOC in hospitals. It is her intention to put in place all the processes for sales and implementation based on using the Strategy and Tactics (S&T) trees, in addition to writing various documents needed. Lisa is currently close to finishing the S&T tree for hospitals. Dr. Antoine Van Gelder (a medical doctor in South Africa) has been collaborating with her on this effort. Lisa is also planning to white paper(s) as well.
Lisa has been chairperson of the TOCICO SCL committee for the past several years and has been directly involved with TOCICO on a committee from the beginning of TOCICO. She is a founder member of TOCICO and is TOCICO certified in SCL, Thinking Processes and Project Management.
Lisa has been directly involved with TOC for almost a decade. This includes attending training, doing research, teaching, and giving TOC presentations at conferences and for organizations such as APICS, PMI, CSCMP and IMA.
Keita Asaine
Keita Asaine is a director of Juntos, Co., Ltd.
Goldratt Schools faculty member since 2008.
He teaches Operations Management and Project Management as a lecturer at Education & Research Center of Manufacturing, Kyushu University.
He has graduated as a System Engineer from Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka. After his graduation, he joined Juntos.
He started to work in the Bridge Design Department and gradually engaged in Sales, too. He was active in an internal TOC implementation project as a team member.
Since 2007, he has received intensive instruction from Oded Cohen, the International Director for Goldratt Schools.
His article “A study on procurement given that delivery's uncertainty of equipment, materials and instruction” appeared in Journal of Construction Management, JSCE Vol.16, 2009.
He devotes himself to providing TOC implementation supports and to conducting seminars.
朝稲 啓太
㈱ジュントス 取締役
九州大学 ものづくり工学教育研究センター 非常勤講師
九州大学「ものづくり工学教育研究センター」の非常勤講師として、生産管理やプロジェクト管理の分野において、TOC（CCPM / S-DBR）を教えている。
九州工業大学情報工学部卒業後、株式会社ジュントスに入社。
橋梁設計を行い、営業活動に従事した。また、自社への TOC 導入プロジェクトのメンバーとして業務改革を推進し、パフォーマンスの改善を実現した。2005年、
2007 年より GS の全世界統括責任者 Oded Cohen 氏から直接指導を受ける。
また、土木学会 建設マネジメント研究 論文集をはじめ、学術論文を複数投稿している。
GS からの豊富な最新情報を基に、 TOC コンサルタントとしてコンサルティングを行うとともに、国内における TOC の啓蒙・発展に日々、尽力している。
Ryoma Shiratsuchi
Ryoma Shiratsuchi is a management consultant of Juntos, Co., Ltd. and a SMEC (Registered "Japan Small and Medium Enterprise Management Consultant").
Goldratt Schools faculty member since 2008 in Japan.
He teaches Operations Management and Project Management as a lecturer at Education & Research Center of Manufacturing, Kyushu University.
His involvement with TOC started in 2004 with implementing CCPM into Bridge Design Department in Juntos. And after its successful implementation, he was sent to the sister company (Construction) and led CCPM implementation project as an internal consultant.
He co-translated "TOC Insights" into Japanese.
Since 2007, he has received intensive instruction from Oded Cohen, the International Director for Goldratt Schools.
Now he is providing TOC trainings and implementation support, especially in the areas of production and project management.
白土 竜馬
㈱ジュントス コンサルタント、 中小企業診断士
九州大学 ものづくり工学教育研究センター 非常勤講師
九州大学「ものづくり工学教育研究センター」の非常勤講師として、生産管理やプロジェクト管理の分野において、TOC（CCPM / S-DBR）を教えている。
自社橋梁設計部門へのCCPM導入を成功させた後、関連会社（土木施工）におけるCCPM導入プロジェクトをリードし、業務改革を推進した。また、"TOC Insights" の日本語翻訳にも携わった。
2007 年より GS の全世界統括責任者 Oded Cohen 氏から直接指導を受ける。
現在は、特に生産管理とプロジェクト管理の分野で、TOCのトレーニング提供および導入プロジェクトで精力的に活動している。
Agnieszka Szepielow
Agnieszka Szepielow has graduated in Physics at Warsaw University and did the trainer and train-a-trainer courses at the Psychology faculty at Warsaw University.
She is practicing and popularizing TOC since 2000 - TOCICO (Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization) certified, working as a consultant, TOC implementer, coach and Goldratt School lecturer in multiple locations. She implemented Goldratt Consulting's Solution for Sales in Viable Vision companies.
Since 2004 she organizes and teaches on the Postgraduate Constraint Management Program at Warsaw University of Technology - practical program which brings advantage to individuals as well as financial and organizational benefits to companies.
In her TOC journey she strives to inspire the change from 'what to think' into 'how to think' and helps others to discover and unlock their potential.
Agnieszka is a Managing Partner of TOC Consulting in Poland (previous name Werbel) - first TOC company in the Polish market.
"Stable solution in a dynamically changing reality cannot be static"
Agnieszka Szepielow (Polish)
Agnieszka Szepielow ukończyła Wydział Fizyki na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, zrobiła kurs trenerski i train-a-trainer na Wydziale Psychologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
TOC praktykuje i popularyzuje od 2000 - certyfikowana przez TOCICO (Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization - Międzynarodowa Organizacja Certyfikująca w Teorii Ograniczeń), pracuje jako konsultant, wdrożeniowiec, coach i wykładowca Goldratt Schools w wielu lokalizacjach. W ramach inicjatywy Goldratt Consulting Viable Vision wdrożyła Rozwiązania w Sprzedaży (Solution For Sales).
Organizuje i prowadzi zajęcia w ramach Studiów Podyplomowych Zarządzanie Ograniczeniami na Politechnice Warszawskiej - praktycznego programu, który pozwala uczestnikom uzyskać przewagę oraz przynosi korzyści finansowe i organizacyjne firmom.
W swojej podróży TOC stara się inspirować zmianę z 'co myśleć' na 'jak myśleć' i pomagać innym odkrywać i odblokowywać ich potencjał.
Agnieszka jest współwłaścicielką TOC Consulting (dawna nazwa Werbel) – pioniera TOC na polskim rynku.
„Stabilne rozwiązanie w dynamicznie zmieniającej się rzeczywistości nie może być statyczne”