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At J. Ross publishing we are actively collaborating with industry leaders to provide the most critical and essential business publications available. These co-publishing relationships include respected companies, associations and authors—all pioneers within their respective fields. Through these alliances, we are able to develop and publish state-of-the-art books and multimedia products that ensure effective and practical solutions to real-world workplace challenges.

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Authors Steven M. Boeder Co-author of The Lean Extended Enterprise: Moving Beyond the Four Walls to Value Stream Excellence and frequent instructor on Lean Manufacturing at the University of Wisconsin's Management Institute. sbroeder@chorus.net Terence T. Burton Author of The Lean Extended Enterprise: Moving Beyond the Four Walls to Value Stream Excellence. is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, national LEAN SIG Chairman and CPIM certified member of APICS. He has written hundreds of articles and is the author of four books by Prentice-Hall and Harcourt Brace. burton@ceobreakthrough.com http://www.ceobreakthrough.com Thomas M. Cappels Author of Financially Focused Project Management, Cappels has an extensive background in project management and education. His credentials include 20 plus years with Lockheed Martin and ten plus years in education. He has presented numerous technical papers, appeared on radio and TV, lectured, and authored over 80 publications. cappels@attbi.com Colleen Crum Author of Demand Management Best Practices: Process, Principles, and Collaboration and co-author of Enterprise Sales and Operations Planning: Synchronizing Demand, Supply and Resources for Peak Performance and leading consultant with Oliver Wight. Crum is an experienced editor and author and has developed teaching curriculum on forecasting and demand management. Crum19@aol.com Lynette Ferrara Co-author of The Networked Supply Chain: Applying Breakthrough BPM Technology to Meet Relentless Customer Demand. Ferrara is responsible for CSC Research Services initiatives that focus on the impact of technology on business models and strategy. Daniel Gardner, CPIM Author of Supply Chain Vector: Linking Execution of Global Business Models with Financial Performance Daniel L. Gardner, MBA, is President of Latin America for the Global Freight Management Division of Exel Global Logistics. With headquarters in the U.K., 65,000 employees and 1,300 locations, Exel provides logistics and related services to importers and exporters around the world. Mr. Gardner is a leading expert with more than 17 years of experience in the Third Party Logistics Business spanning a variety of industries and geographies across supply chains. In addition to being a published author and active speaker, he is Certified in Production & Inventory Management (CPIM), a licensed Customhouse Broker, and a Six Sigma Green Belt. Mr. Garner previously distinguished himself as a Professor of Logistics & Supply Chain Management at both the University of Miami and Florida International University Graduate Business Schools, where he continues to hold adjunct professor status. Dan.gardner@mx.exel.com http://www.exel.com John C. Goodpasture Author of Quantitative Methods for the Project Manager is President, Square Peg Consulting, Inc., a leading consulting firm in the field of project management. He has an MS in Electrical Engineering and over 35 years of work experience in complex multi-million-dollar programs and projects in defense, intelligence, aerospace and commercial industry. John is the author of Managing Projects for Value, has authored dozens of articles in PM Network magazine, and has authored and presented numerous papers to PMI National Symposium as well as several unique quantitative techniques. He is an experienced and sought-after speaker, instructor, and lecturer. Sanjay Gupta Co-author of State and Local Taxation: Principles and Planning Second Edition is currently the director of ASU's Master of Accountancy and Master of Taxation programs and teaches in those programs as well as the MBA and PhD programs. Professor Gupta earned his Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) in accounting and auditing from Bombay University (India), Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Calcutta University (India), a Master of Accountancy from Bowling Green State University, and his Ph.D. in accounting with an emphasis in taxation from Michigan State University. He also holds professional certifications as a CPA (Ohio) and as an associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He is a member of the National Tax Association, the American Accounting Association and its special interest section on taxation. Professor Gupta’s primary research interests are in the areas of corporate and individual tax policy issues. His research in the area of state corporate income tax policies has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the National Tax Journal and the Journal of the American Taxation Association (JATA). He has also been published in the Accounting Review, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Tax Notes. Professor Gupta was the 1993-94 Price Waterhouse Fellow in Taxation, one of two fellowships awarded nationally each year. He is also a multiple recipient of nationally competitive Ernst & Young Tax Research Grants. In 2000 he received the Arizona Society of CPAs Accounting Education Innovation Award. He has consulted for the international and national public accounting firms, Motorola, and Charles River Associates. sanjay.gupta@ASU.edu https://wpcarey.asu.edu Francis Hayden Co-author of The Networked Supply Chain: Applying Breakthrough BPM Technology to Meet Relentless Customer Demand. Hayden works with the CSC Research Services group specializing in the area of collaboration and has published many ground-breaking CSC reports. Dennis P. Hobbs, CPIM Author of Lean Manufacturing Implementation A Complete Execution Manual for Any Size Manufacturer is a Principal Member of Mfg Matters, LLC, a leading boutique consulting firm that specializes in Lean Manufacturing implementation. He has over 30 years of combined line and staff experience in manufacturing, primarily in production planning, inventory control, and materials management. Dennis has implemented the installation of Lean manufacturing systems successfully for numerous manufacturers. As a professional instructor, he has trained over 2500 manufacturing professionals in Lean Manufacturing techniques. He has published numerous articles and is an active member of APICS and a sought-after speaker. dennis.hobbs@mfgmatters.com http://www.mfgmatters.com Ronald K. Ireland Author of Supply Chain Collaboration: An Implementation Guide a principal with Oliver Wight, has more than 20 years experience in manufacturing, retail, and technology. Ron along with Robert Bruce first defined Supply Chain Partner Collaboration while working as executives for Wal-Mart. Ron and Robert spearheaded Wal-Mart’s effort to develop its retail link for communicating point-of-sale and inventory information to their suppliers. As a result, Ron and Robert are widely considered the “fathers” of what has evolved into the retail industry standard called CPFR, sponsored by VICS and adopted by the Global Commerce Initiative. Ron is a sought after speaker and a lead instructor for the CPFR Institute. Karl Kapp, Ed.D. Author of Winning E-Learning Proposals: The Art of Development and Delivery and leading expert in the field of e-learning. Kapp is Assistant Director of the prestigious Institute for Interactive Technologies and has published hundreds of articles and several books. kkapp@bloomu.edu http://www.karlkapp.com John Karayan Co-author of State and Local Taxation: Principles and Planning Second Edition is a tax attorney with a “Big 8” CPA background. Retired from professional practice, he is a full-time university professor, a consultant to entrepreneurs, and an expert witness in complex litigation. jekarayan@csupomona.edu http://www.csupomona.edu/~jekarayan Gerald I. Kendall Author of Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed and President of MarketKey, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in the fields of project management and constraints management(TOC). Kendall is a noted author, management consultant, trainer, speaker, and an active member of PMI. gerryikendall@cs.com http://marketkey.com Ralph Kliem Author of Leading High Performance Projects is president of Practical Creative Solutions, is an accomplished author of hundreds of articles and 12 books primarily in project management. Abderrahim Labbi, Ph.D. Editor of Handbook of Integrated Risk Management for E-Business: Measuring, Modeling and Managing Risk and Research Scientist at IBM, where he specializes in quantifying and modeling e-business risk management. Labbi has published extensively and is a regular speaker at leading industry events. abl@zurich.ibm.com http://www.zurich.ibm.com Richard B. Lanza, PMP Co-author of Essential Project Investment Governance and Reporting: Preventing Project Fraud and Ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance is a Project Management/PMO expert, CPA and Manager of Internal Auditing for Toys R Us. rich@richlanza.com http://www.richlanza.com Ginger Levin, Ph.D. Co-author of Achieving Project Management Success Using Virtual Teams is an independent project management consultant with over 25 years of experience and is a well-known author of several related publications. ginlevin@aol.com Stephen G. Moyer, JD, MBA, CFA Author of Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors is currently Director of Research at Imperial Capital, a boutique investment bank located in Beverly Hills, California which focuses on high yield, bank and convertible debt, typically involving companies in financial distress. Steve has over 15 years of industry experience and has particular expertise with financial institutions as well as the credit-intensive areas of asset- and mortgage-backed securities. Douglas Neal Co-author of The Networked Supply Chain: Applying Breakthrough BPM Technology to Meet Relentless Customer Demands and a Research Fellow at CSC Research Services where he has developed state-of-the-art management and end-user systems. Joseph W. Neff Co-author of State and Local Taxation: Principles and Planning Second Edition is the U.S. National Partner in Charge of Middle Market Tax Practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers. C. Lynn Northrup Author of Dynamics of Profit Focused Accounting has over 40 years of experience as a financial executive, CPA, and consultant specializing in operations and strategic cost management. He creates and teaches continuing professional education on a national and regional level and he is an active member of APICS and the AICPA. cln@northrupcpa.com http://www.northrupcpa.com George E. Palmatier Author of Enterprise Sales and Operations Planning: Synchronizing Demand, Supply and Resources for Peak Performance and co-author of Demand Management Best Practices: Process, Principles, and Collaboration and consultant with Oliver Wight, the world's leading manufacturing consulting firm. Palmatier has written many ground-breaking best-selling books and is a pioneer in the development and evolution of the sales and operations planning process. palmatier@aol.com Mark Peterson, CEO Author of Collaborative Enterprise Portfolio Management: Increasing Value Returns through Performance Innovation of Coeur Business Group, Inc., leaders in the delivery of Value Performance Methods and Strategies. Charles C. Poirier Author of The Networked Supply Chain: Applying Breakthrough BPM Technology to Meet Relentless Customer Demands. Poirier is a widely respected expert and best-selling author. Parviz F. Rad, Ph.D. Author of Achieving Project Management Success Using Virtual Teams and editor of the Project Management Journal for the Project Management Institute. Rad has over 30 years experience and is a well-known author of numerous publications in the areas of project management, engineering and construction. David F. Rico Author of The Return on Investment of Software Process Improvement is a software process improvement (SPI) consultant specializing in cost and benefit analysis. He helped design a $250M software engineering toolset and the spacecraft software for NASA's $20B space station in the 1980s, helped a $40B Japanese corporation design a CMM self assessment tool, designed a software cost model for 37 kinds of U.S. Navy fighter aircraft, and has supported 15 software engineering process groups (SEPGs) over the last decade. He is an international keynote speaker, has published numerous articles, and holds a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S.A. in Software Engineering. dave@davidfrico.com http://davidfrico.com Jeff Sams Co-author of Six Sigma for Small and Mid-Sized Organizations is Director of North American Operations for Casco Products, a Unit of Sequa Corporation. He has over 22 years of experience in manufacturing, quality, logistics, and customer engineering and extensive implementation experience in lean and Six Sigma, having previously worked for Allied Signal, Johnson Controls, Toyota Gosei, and Bosch. He is also a Six Sigma Master Blackbelt. Mel Schnapper, Ph.D., Author of Value-Based Metrics for Improving Results: An Enterprise Project Management Toolkit is the founder and past Chairman of the Metrics Specific Interest Group (SIG) of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and a leading expert in the development of metrics for measuring, managing and improving performance. mel@schnapper.com http://www.schnapper.com Jeffrey Schutt Co-author of Directing The Flow of Product: A Guide to Improving Supply Chain Planning a Consulting Partner with Moore & Associates, holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. He has spent three decades doing strategic logistics planning, working closely with production and distribution planners to design and develop new planning tools and processes, and implementing packaged Supply Chain Planning software. Charles Swenson Co-author of State and Local Taxation: Principles and Planning Second Edition is Professor of Taxation at the University of Southern California and a former tax consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. chuck@taxtechresearch.com James Taylor Author of Project Sceduling and Cost Control: Planning, Monitoring and Controlling the Baseline has over 30 years of experience in project management and is currently the Technical Curriculum Consultant at ESI International.		Associations APICS—The Educational Society for Resource Management is an international educational society recognized as the global leader and premier provider of resource management education and information. www.apics.org IIL provides the training that professionals need to manage today's complex issues. An internationally-recognized leader, IIL offers state-of-the-art training and consulting services in Project Management, Theory of Constraints and Six Sigma to some of the biggest and best-managed companies worldwide. www.iil.com Institute for Interactive Technologies The Institute for Interactive Technologies was established in 1985 as a research and development group focusing on emerging interactive learning technologies. Its primary purpose is to conduct original technology-based development and research projects providing graduate students with an opportunity to work on "real-world" projects. http://iit.bloomu.edu/ Partners PM Boulevard is an online project management resource backed by Robbins-Gioia's 22 years of PM experience. Featuring a front page with fresh content every week, a continuously growing knowledge base, and training partnerships, all within a community setting, PM Boulevard empowers the project manager in the field. www.pmblvd.com Consulting/Training Companies Oliver Wight Oliver Wight is a leading global management consulting and education firm that specializes in helping companies work smarter, faster and more profitably—best known for their breakthrough innovations in manufacturing. www.oliverwight.com
Steve C. Rollins Co-author of Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed and a well-known leading expert in Enterprise Program/Project Management Office. Rollins is co-founder of the PMOUSA Network and Executive Chair for the Mid America PMO Regional Group as well as a featured speaker to many organizations. steve@pmousa.com www.pmousa.com