PREISS, KENNETH

Born: 1937, South Africa

Ph.D.: 1964, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London;

Professor 1985.

Editor-in-Chief, Agility & Global Competition, Wiley, quarterly.

Recent BOOKS

Preiss, K., Goldman, S. L., & Nagel, R. N., "Cooperate to Compete: Building Agile Business Relationships", van Nostrand Reinhold, 250pp., 1996.

Goldman, S. L., Nagel, R. N. & Preiss, K., "Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations: Strategies for Enriching the Customer", van Nostrand Reinhold, 400 pp., 1995. (Chosen by Booz, Allen & Hamilton and the London Financial Times as one of the four best books on management published in the Americas in 1995).

Recent PAPERS

Preiss K., "A Systems Perspective of Lean and Agile Manufacturing", Agility and Global Competition, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 59 - 75, winter 1997.

Preiss K. & Ray M. R. , "A Method for Sharing Earnings in a Virtual Organization", Agility and Global Competition, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 33 - 40, winter 1998.

Shai O. & Preiss, K., "Representation of Embedded Engineering Knowledge for Design", Artificial Intelligence in Design Conference, Lisbon July 1998.

K. Preiss & M. R. Ray, "Time-Based Costing- Part 1: Costing for a Dynamic Business Environment, Part 2: Scope and Application", Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, Vol. 11, No. 5 & 6, 2000.

K. Preiss, "Next Generation Manufacturing Systems", Journal of Manufacturing Science and Production, 2001.

D. Vekstein and K. Preiss, “The effect of time delays in make-to-order information on the dynamics of supply chains”, International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, summer, 2002.

Key words: Global competitiveness, agility, agile-manufacturing, virtual organization, enterprise-engineering, artificial-intelligence and graph theory in engineering.

Phone: + 972 8 647 7097

Fax: + 972 8 647 2813

E.Mail: preiss@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

Date: 29 Dec 2003