About the Authors

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Tom Allen was a Professor at the MIT loan School of Management. His many and various achievements included the “Allen curve” relating communication among engineers to their physical separation, the books Managing the Flow of Technology and Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s, and the founding of the National Institute of Technology Management at University College Dublin.

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld is professor and associate dean for academics in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.  He is co-author of fourteen books and has led lean and related transformation initiatives in manufacturing, health care, government and social impact sectors.

Hugh McManus is Associate Teaching Professor of Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University, and adjunct faculty at Loyola Marymount Los Angeles and Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. He invents and shares active learning tools and simulations, and continues the EdNet mission, teaching enterprise lean in many contexts, for many applications.

Deborah Nightingale is currently a  University Distinguished Professor at the University of Central Florida. While at MIT she served as the Director of the Sociotechnical Research Center and facilitated numerous enterprise transformations in industry, government and healthcare.

Eric Rebentisch is a Research Scientist at MIT and a Lecturer in the MIT System Design and Management program focusing on the future of engineering. His multidisciplinary research focuses on digital transformation in technical organizations. He is the co-author of multiple books and other publications and has advised over 100 graduate student theses at MIT and other universities.

Fred Stahl is a former Boeing Company executive, serving in positions including Corporate Chief Scientist, Europe. He was an early leader the MIT LAI, serving as Stakeholder Co-Director. He is the author of Worker Leadership: America’s Secret Weapon in the Battle for Industrial Competitiveness.

Myles Walton is a Managing Director at Wolfe Research covering the Aerospace & Defense Industry, which he's done for 2 decades since earning his PhD and MS from MIT.  He's a CFA charterholder, a top ranked Institutional Investor analyst and a member of the WPI Board of Trustees.  

Joyce Warmkessel was a Senior Lecturer at MIT and led the Test and Space Operations team at LAI. She had a long career as a systems engineer, including responsibility for systems engineering processes and training at Lockheed Missiles and Space.

Stanley Weiss was a Vice President at Lockheed Missiles and Space, a Chief Engineer at NASA, the Jerome C. Hunsaker Visiting Professor at MIT, the Co-PI of the LAI, and a consulting professor at Stanford University. He was the author of Product and Systems Development: A Value Approach.