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Published on: 10/20/2007
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Now Debra Smith can come right to your desk!
Debra Smith
Debra is a dynamic, passionate and captivating internationally recognized speaker that keeps the audience on their toes.
Debra has been the featured speaker at events throughout North America, Europe and Africa . This session of the Measurement Nightmare was professionally taped and edited at the 2005 Constraints Management User Conference in Seattle, WA.
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Debra has extensive experience in public accounting, financial management in manufacturing companies, teaching at the University level and consulting in TOC.
Debra began working with Dr. Eli Goldratt, author of the business novel, “The Goal,†in 1990 when she was an Associate Professor of Accounting at the university of Puget Sound in Tacoma , WA . She is responsible for original research focused on understanding changes necessary in measurements, accounting and information systems to support continuous improvement processes in manufacturing.
She is co-author of “The Theory of Constraints and Its Implications for Management Accountingâ€, an independent research study of the Theory of Constraints funded by the Institute of Management Accounting . She has a second book entitled “The Measurement Nightmare, how the Theory of Constraints Can Resolve Conflicting Strategies, Policies and Measuresâ€.
Prior to teaching Ms. Smith worked in public accounting as a CPA for Deloitte & Touche and spent nine years in publicly traded manufacturing firms, both as a Division Controller and Vice President of Finance and Operations.
She is internationally recognized as an authority on management accounting and is a noted speaker on the Theory of Constraints.
In 2001 Ms. Smith was elected to the founding Board of Directors of the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO), a certification organization founded by Dr. Eli Goldratt.
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The techniques that the author, leading authority Debra Smith, has implemented and tracked at various companies highlight "the productivity measurement nightmare".
Especially important are the day-to-day tools she helped developed to ensure successful implementation.