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Ron S. Kenett

Ph.Doctor

 

Address: P.O.Box 408, Raanana 43101, Israel

Tel-res: 972-9-7444 094 , tel-office: 972-9-740 8442; cell: 972-522 434491, fax: 972-9-740 8443

E-mail: ron@kpa.co.il,   home page: http://www.kpa.co.il       

Languages: Fluent in Hebrew, French and English, some Italian.

 

CEO and Senior Partner of KPA Ltd., an international management consulting firm and Professor at the University of Torino, Torino, Italy. He has over 25 years of experience in restructuring and improving the competitive position of organizations by integrating statistical methods, process analysis, supporting technologies and modern human resource management systems. As Professor of Management at the State University of New York-Binghamton (1987-1993), he was awarded the General Electric Quality Management Fellowship. For ten years he served as Director of Statistical Methods of Tadiran Telecommunications Corporation and, previously, as researcher at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and faculty member at the department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His 130 publications and four books are on topics in industrial statistics, biostatistics and quality management. Ron is Editor in Chief of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, Editor in Chief of Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (series A) and serves on the review board of Quality Progress. Professor Kenett’s Ph.D. is in Mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science (1978); he earned a BSc. in Mathematics with first class honors from Imperial College, London University (1974). Ron is president elect of ENBIS, the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (www.enbis.org). He can be reached at ron@kpa.co.il.  

 

Positions held in academia:

  • Professor, University of Torino, Dept of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Torino, Italy (2002-)

  • Adjunct Professor, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (2000-2001)

  • Adjunct Professor, Tel-Aviv University (1993 - 2000).

  • Full Professor, State University of New York, School of Management,            

  • Binghamton, New York (1989 - 1993).

  • Visiting Associate Professor, State University of New York, School of Management,

  • Binghamton, New York (1987-1989).

  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Tel-Aviv University (1982-1990).

  • Adjunct Associate Professor, The Technion, Faculty of Industrial Engineering  (1986).     

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, Department of Statistics (1981).

  • Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Statistics (1978-1980).

  • Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Department of Mathematics (1975).                                                             

Positions held in business and industry:

  • Founder, Senior Partner and CEO, KPA Ltd.(www.kpa.co.il) (1990-present).

  • Founder, Takeoff (www.takeoff.co.il) (1997).

  • Founder, Babylon Ltd. (www.babylon.com). (1997).

  • Member of the Board, Ergolight Ltd. (1999-2003).

  • Member of the Board, Israel Business Generator Ltd. (1996-2002).

  • Director of Statistical Methods, Tadiran Telecommunications Group (1981-1990).

  • Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey (1980-1981).

Editorial activities:

  • Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, J. Wiley, Editor in Chief

  • Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, Editor in Chief for Europe

  • Journal of the Royal Statistical society, Series A, Associate Editor

  • Quality Progress, member of the editorial review board

Memberships in professional societies:

  • Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

  • President of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics

  • Associate of the Royal College of Science

  • Senior Member of the American Society for Quality Control

  • Member of Board of  the Israeli Statistical Association

  • Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute

Selected Publications

 

  1. "A Test for Detecting Outlying Cells in the  Multinomial Distribution  and Two-Way        Contingency  Tables" (with C. Fuchs),  Journal of the American Statistical Association, 75,                pp. 395-398, 1980. 

  2. Comments on "Sampling and Bayes' Inference in Scientific Modeling and Robustness" by G.      Box,  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 143, 4, pp. 421-422, 1980.

  3. "On Sequential Detection of a Shift in the Probability of a Rare Event" (with M. Pollak),               Journal of the American Statistical Association,  78, pp.  389-395, 1983.

  4. "On an Exploratory Analysis of Contingency Tables" The Statistician, 32,  pp. 395-403, 1983.

  5. "A Semi-Parametric Approach to Testing for Reliability Growth with an Application to Software Systems" (with M. Pollak), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R-35, 3, pp. 304-311, 1986. 

  6. "Multivariate Tolerance Regions and F-tests" (with C. Fuchs),                Journal of Quality Technology,      19, pp. 122-131, 1987.

  7. "Some Experiences Teaching Factorial Designs in Introductory Statistics Courses" (with D.           Steinberg), Journal of Applied Statistics, 14,  pp. 219-228, 1987.

  8. "A Process Management Approach to Software Quality Assurance" (with S. Koenig),  Quality    Progress, pp. 66-70, November 1988.                              

  9. "Appraisal of Ceramic Substrates by Multivariate Tolerance Regions" (with C. Fuchs), The           Statistician,  37, pp. 401-411, 1988.     

  10. "Improve Performance by Appraisal" (with D. Waldman), Human Resources Magazine, pp.         66-69, July 1990.

  11. "Two Methods for Comparing Pareto Charts",  Journal of Quality Technology, 23, pp. 27-31,     1991.

  12. "Going Beyond Main-Effect Plots" (with B. Vogel), Quality Progress, pp. 71-73,  February           1991.

  13. "Making Sense Out of Two Pareto Charts", Quality Progress, pp. 71-74, May 1994.

  14. "Process Tracking of Time Series with Change Points", (with S. Zacks), Recent Advances in          Statistics and Probability, , J. Vilaplana and M. Puri (eds), pp. 155-171, 1994.

  15. "Assessing Software development and Inspection Errors", Quality Progress, pp. 109-112,             October 1994 with correction in issue of February 1995.

  16. "The Impact of Defects on a Process with Rework" (with S. Agnihothri ), European Journal of    Operations Research, 80, pp. 308-327, 1995. 

  17. " Process Performance Appraisal Systems: A Working Substitute to Individual Performance        Appraisal " (with D. Waldman and S. Graves), Total Quality Management, 5, 5, pp. 267- 280,             1994.

  18. "Data-Analytic Aspects of the Shiryayev-Roberts Control Chart: Surveillance of a Non-               homogeneous Poisson Process" (with M. Pollak), Journal of Applied Statistics, 1, 23, pp. 125-               137, 1996.

  19. "The Global Village of Quality" (with S. Graves), Quality Progress, pp. 93, June 1998.

  20. “The International Quality Manager” (with D. Albert), Quality Progress, pp. 45-51, July 2001.

  21. “Statistical Efficiency: The Practical Perspective” (with S. Coleman and D. Stewardson), Quality and Reliability Engineering International,  19, pp. 265-272, July-August  2003.

  22. “A proposal for managing and engineering knowledge of stochastics in the quality movement” (with M. Ramalhoto and J. Shade), Safety and Reliability, ESREL2003, T. Bedford and P. van Gelder editors, Balkema publishers, July 2003.

  23. “Applying Case Based Reasoning Approach in analyzing Organizational Change Management Data” (with O. Raphaeli and J. Zahavi), In: P. Perner (Ed.), Advances in Data Mining:            Applications in Image Mining, Medicine and Biotechnology, Management and         Environmental    Control, and Telecommunications, 4th Industrial Conference on Data               Mining, ICDM 2004, Leipzig, Germany, July 4 -7, 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer             Science, Springer Verlag, Volume 3275, 2004.

  24. “Improving enterprise system support - a case-based approach” (with P.  Wognum, J. Krabbendam, H. Buhl and X. Ma), Advanced Engineering Informatics, Volume 18, Issue 4, pp.  241-253, October 2004.

  25. “Robust design using computer experiments” (with D.  Steinberg, R. Bates and H. Wynn), Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2004, A. Di Bucchianico, R. Mattheij and M. Peletier editors, Mathematics in Industry 8, Springer Verlag, pp. 564-568, 2006.

  26. "Achieving Robust Design from Computer Simulations" (with D.  Steinberg, R. Bates and H. Wynn), Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 161-177, 2006.

  27. "On the Planning and Design of Sample Surveys", Journal of Applied Statistics Vol. 33, No. 4, 405–415, May 2006.

  28. “The use of simulation to improve the effectiveness of training in performance management” (with D. Rachman-Moore), Journal of Management Education, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 455-476, June 2006.

  29. “Aspects of statistical consulting not taught by academia” (with P. Thyregod), Statistica Neerlandica, special issue on Industrial Statistics, 60, 3, pp. 396-412, August 2006.

  30. “New Frontiers in Design of Experiments” (with D. Steinberg), Quality Progress, pp. 61-65, August 2006.

  31. “Bootstrap analysis of designed experiments” (with E. Rahav and D. Steinberg), Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 22, 659-667, 2006.

  32. “Multivariate Methods in Enterprise System Implementation, Risk Management and Change Management” (with O. Raphaeli), International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, to appear, 2007.

  33. “Joseph M. Juran, a perspective on past contributions and future impact” (with B. Godfrey), Quality and Reliability Engineering International, to appear, 2007.

Monographs / Chapters / Standards:

 

1.            A Guide to Advanced Quality Engineering Techniques 

                (in Hebrew with D. Steinberg) Publication of the Israeli Society for Quality Control, 1989.

                Second revised and expanded edition, 1995.

2.            Understanding the Software Process  in Total Quality Management for          

                Software, edited by G. Schulmeyer and J. McManus, Van Nostrand- Reinholt, 1992.

3.            Management for Quality in Ancient Israel in A History of  Management for Quality,

                edited by J. Juran, Quality Press, 1995.

4.             The Role of Change Management in IT Systems Implementation (with S. Lombardo) in Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice, A Book Edited by Dr. Pallab Saha, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Idea Group Inc.,  2007.

5.            The Statistical Efficiency Conjecture (with A. de Frenne, X. Tort-Martorell and C.        McCollin, in Applying Statistical

                Methods in Business and Industry – the state of the art,           Coleman, S., Greenfield, T. ,and Montgomery, D. (editors),

                Wiley, 2008.

6.            Modeling Web Usability Diagnostics on the basis of Usage Statistics (with A. Harel and F.  Ruggeri)

                in  Statistical Methods in eCommerce Research,  W. Jank and G. Shmueli editors,  Wiley, 2008.

  

Books:

 

  1. Modern Industrial Statistics: Design and Control of Quality and Reliability (with S. Zacks), Duxbury Press, San Francisco, 1998. 2nd edition 2003, Chinese edition 2004.

  2. Multivariate Quality Control: Theory and Applications (with C. Fuchs), Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 1998.

  3. Software Process Quality: Management and Control  (with E. Baker), Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 1999.

  4. Modern Statistics: A Computer Based Approach (with S. Zacks), Brook/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA 2001.

  5. The Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability (Editor in Chief with F. Ruggeri and F. Faltin), John Wiley and Sons, 2008.

  6. CMMI and Process Improvement for Systems and Software:Planning, Implementation, and Management (with E. Baker) Auerbach, 2008.