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contributors in this issue Mohammed Hamed Ahmed is an Peter Grose is a licensed professional industrial engineer and lean improvement engineer and president and CEO of Fuss & consultant who works as an instructor at O'Neill Inc., an engineering consulting firm. the American University in Cairo. He has He has been with Fuss & O'Neill for more experience in many industries, including the than 30 years, beginning as a staff engineer fertilizer, chemicals and crystal-glass making Mohammed Hamed Ahmed sectors. He holds numerous certificates in right out of graduate school. Grose leads Peter Grose the company's multidisciplined consulting management, industrial, quality and cost business, which focuses on community plan- engineering, and he is pursuing his MBA ning and development, energy and facilities, at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt environmental and infrastructure services. University. Michael Umble is a professor of operaHortense Fong is a business analyst tions management at Baylor University at Deloitte Consulting, where she is in and former director of Baylor's Center for the strategy and operations practice. She Manufacturing Excellence. Specializing recently graduated from Pennsylvania State in theory of constraints and synchronous University with her bachelor's degree in finance and mathematics and her master's management systems, Umble has extenMichael Umble sive worldwide consulting and executive degree in applied statistics. While at Penn development experience with many diverse State, she worked at the Center for Global organizations. He also has developed and Business Studies and researched various taught more than 200 executive develop- trends that shape business, specifically ment seminars and workshops covering immigration, biotechnology, nanotechnology a wide variety of topics. He has authored and robotics. Hortense Fong more than 80 published papers and three books on synchronous manufacturing and Fariborz Ghadar is the William A. Schreyer synchronous management. Professor of Global Management, Policies and Planning and founding director of sor of operations management at Baylor at the Smeal College of Business at the Fariborz Ghadar Elisabeth Umble is an associate profes- the Center for Global Business Studies University. Umble has a law degree and Pennsylvania State University. He is also a a Ph.D. in statistics. Her interests include senior advisor and distinguished scholar at theory of constraints, Bayesian statistics, The Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. The origi- project management and supply chain manElisabeth Umble agement. She has published many articles nal booklet version of Global Tectonics: in the areas of theory of constraints and What Every Business Needs to Know was published in 2005 with the help of Erik Peterson. Since then, Ghadar has continually updated the 12 trends to reflect the current and future global business environment. Bayesian statistics. january/february 2014 5