Value Stream Management

Professor Peter Hines, is Professor of Supply Chain Management and Co-Director of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School. He holds a BA (MA) in geography from Cambridge University and an MBA and PhD from the University of Cardiff. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications and the present chairman of the Logistics Research Network. Professor Richard Lamming BSc DPhil CEng MIEE FRSA FCIPS holds the CIPS Chair of Purchasing and Supply Management at the School of Management, University of Bath, in the UK, where he is Director of the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS), and Director of Corporate Development for the School itself. From 1986-90 he was a senior member of the International Motor Vehicle Programme, based at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and Brighton Business School (UK). He is a member of the steering group of Partnership Sourcing Ltd and an adviser to the UK Department of Trade and Industry. Professor Daniel T Jones was appointed Professor of Management and in 1993 he founded the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He is now a co-director of the centre. Dr Paul D Cousins BA (Hons) MBA PhD MCIPS has a degree in Informatics at Sheffield University. He continued, at the University of Bath, to study for an MBA degree and Doctorate. Dr Cousins has worked as a senior consultant with A.T.Kearney. He now balances both academia and industry with posts at the University of Bath, A.T.Kearney and a range of other major blue chip firms. Nick Rich, BSc (Cardiff), MBA (Cardiff) is a Senior Research Associate. After a number of years' international industrial management and consultancy experience, he returned to join the university at Cardiff. He was one of the original members of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre He received the International Benchmarking Award in 1998.Hines, Peter is the author of 'Value Stream Management', published 1999 under ISBN 9780273642022 and ISBN 0273642022.