John Nicholas

Personal Information

Degrees

• PhD, Industrial Engineering and Applied Behavioral Science, Northwestern University

• MBA, Operations Research and Systems Analysis, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

• BS, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Research Interests

• Competitive manufacturing management: Lean production, just-in-time,and related topics

• Project and program management

• Management of project management and PMO's

• Knowledge management in projects

• Interpersonal and group behavior inhigh-stress, isolated,and confined operating environments

Professional Associations

• American Association for the Advancement of Science

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

• American Production and Inventory Control Society

• Association for Manufacturing Excellence

• Experimental Aircraft Association

• Institute of Industrial Engineers

Awards

• Beta Gamma Sigma

• Phi Beta Delta

Courses Taught

• ISOM 337. Fundamentals of Lean Production
   
• ISOM 349. Project Management (undergraduate)

• ISOM 480. Introduction to Operations Management

• ISOM 482. Lean Production: Concepts and Applications

• ISOM 484. Project Management

• ISOM 581. Global Operations Management

• OPMG 601. Project Management (EMBA)

• OPMG 332. Operations Management (undergraduate)

Research Listings

Refereed Articles

Nicholas, John, "An Integrated Lean-Methods Approach to Hospital Facilities Redesign." Hospital Topics (2012).

Jukic, N. & Nicholas, J. "A Framework for Collecting and Defining Requirements for Data Warehousing Projects."  Journal of Computing and Information Technology (2011).  

Nicholas, John, and Hidding, G.J. "Management Principles Associated with IT Project Success." International Journal of Management and Information Systems (2010).

Nicholas, John. & Johnson, H. "Case History: Quality Initiative in the Pathology Lab." OD Practitioner (2010).

Refereed Proceedings

Jukic, N. & Nicholas, J. "A Framework for Requirements Collection and Definition Process for Data Warehousing Proejcts."Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, ITI 2010, (2010).187-192.

Books

Nicholas, John. M. and Herman Stein, Project Management for Engineering, Business, and Technology (4th ed). Routledge (2012).

Nicholas, John. M. , Lean Production: A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices. , New York:CRC/Productivity Press (2010).

Nicholas, John. M. and Herman Stein, Project Management for Business, Engineering, and Techonology (3rd ed).Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann (2008).

Nicholas, John. M. and Avi Soni, The Portal to Lean Production: Principles and Practices for Doing More with Less. Auerbach Press (2006).

Nicholas, John. M. , Project Management for Business and Technology (Chinese edition, ). Tsingua University Press (2005).

Presentation of Refereed Papers

Hidding, Gezinus, and J. Nicholas. (2010). "Reducing Project Failures Through Value-Driven Change Leadership." Applied Business Research Conference of the Clute Institute, Orlando, Florida.

Hidding, Gezinus, and J. Nicholas. (2009). "Reducing Project Failures Through Value-Driven Change Leadership." Project Summit, Chicago, Illinois.