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.