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.