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WORK TITLE: Resilient by Design
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http://resilience.osu.edu/CFR-site/aboutus.htm * http://resilience.osu.edu/CFR-site/pdf/Fiksel_bio_2010.pdf * https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-fiksel-26137b5
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PERSONAL
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
EDUCATION:M.I.T., B.Sc; Stanford University, M.Sc, Ph.D.; La Sorbonne, took an advanced degree.
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Academic and researcher. DuPont of Canada, on staff; Arthur D. Little, Inc., head of Decision and Risk Management group; Battelle, Columbus, OH, vice president for life-cycle management and Responsible Care product stewardship program director; Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Center for Resilience executive director; Eco-Nomics LLC (consulting firm), cofounder and principal. Has also worked as a consultant; Society for Risk Analysis, officer and founding member; advisory board member for U.S. Technical Advisory Group for ISO 14000 and sustainable enterprise MBA programs at both University of Michigan and University of North Carolina; public speaker.
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Joseph Fiksel is an academic and researcher with degrees from M.I.T., Stanford University, and La Sorbonne. He serves as the executive director of Ohio State University’s Center for Resilience, which aims to develop a unified approach for modeling risk, sustainability, and resilience in complex systems. In his capacity as a research faculty member of the Integrated Systems Engineering Department, Fiksel works with corporations, governments agencies, and non-profits on collaborations intended to look for new ways of understanding the interconnectedness between environmental, social, and economic interests. He is also principal and cofounder of the Eco-Nomics LLC consulting firm, which also works with sustainable business practices, particularly materials management, supply chain management, product development, and sustainable energy and mobility. He has worked as a consultant in these areas for several decades.
In 2009 Fiksel published Design for Environment: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development. The account centers on advice for corporate development of sustainable processes and products. Fiksel also includes a toolkit for those working in the field of designing for the environment, focusing specifically on product life-cycle management. The account also covers a range of related topics, such as concurrent engineering and product development, ways to employ analysis to evaluate performance trade-offs and design sustainability, and ways to maintain and apply a portfolio of systematic Design for Environment strategies. A contributor to the SciTech Book News labeled Fiksel as being “a recognized authority” in the field of sustainable business practices. The same reviewer insisted that “the book is both well-written and practical.”
Fiksel published Resilient by Design: Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World in 2016. Fiksel uses his twenty-five years of experience as a consultant and researcher on sustainable business practices to present his model of how businesses can best adjust to global changes and employ corporate responsible practices at the same time. He illustrates a systems approach that will allow corporations to stay competitive and be able to operate fluidly during periods of recovery and crisis. He guides strategists and risk managers to stay atop potential problems resulting from the instability of a troubled global climate. He emphasizes the need to plan for change in advance and to take advantage of opportunities that would otherwise threaten various aspects of the corporation’s success. In a review in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, J.P. Miller claimed that the book “will be useful for those taking courses concerned with corporate strategy, risk management … and ecology and society.” Miller “highly recommended” the book for upper-level undergraduate students through professionals in the field.
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Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, April 1, 2016, J.P. Miller, review of Resilient by Design: Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World, p. 1205.
SciTech Book News, September 1, 2009, review of Design for Environment: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development.
ONLINE
Center for Resilience, Ohio State University Web site, http://resilience.osu.edu/ (March 18, 2017), author profile.
Conversation, https://theconversation.com/ (March 18, 2017), author profile.
Discovery Themes, Ohio State University Web site, https://discovery.osu.edu/ (March 18, 2017), author profile.
Biography of Joseph Fiksel
Dr. Joseph Fiksel is Executive Director of the Center for Resilience at The Ohio State
University, an interdisciplinary research center that is developing a unified approach for
modeling risk, resilience, and sustainability in complex systems. As a research faculty
member in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department, he collaborates with
companies, government agencies, non-profits, and other organizations to develop new
methods and tools for understanding the interdependence
among social, environmental, and economic interests.
Joseph is also Principal and Co-Founder of the consulting
firm Eco-Nomics LLC, and is an internationally recognized
expert on sustainable business practices, including product
development, materials management, sustainable energy and
mobility, and supply chain management. He has over 20
years of management consulting experience, specializing in
environmental risk management, product stewardship, design
for environment, and performance measurement.
A native of Montreal, Joseph began his career at DuPont of
Canada, and then joined Arthur D. Little, Inc., where he led the Decision and Risk
Management group. Later, he served as Vice President for Life Cycle Management at
Battelle, and directed the Responsible Care® Product Stewardship program. His clients
have included leading multi-national companies in the automotive, electronics, defense,
chemical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, consumer products, glass, cement, and electric
power industries. He has managed several major projects for the Global Environmental
Management Initiative (GEMI), a consortium of over forty leading U.S. companies, to
develop tools that capture the business value of environmental excellence and
sustainability. He also directed a $2.5 million study of the global cement industry for the
World Business Council for Sustainable Development, leading to an agenda for action.
Joseph has served on numerous advisory boards, including the U.S. Technical Advisory
Group for ISO 14000 and the advisory boards for sustainable enterprise MBA programs
at both University of Michigan and University of North Carolina. He was an officer and
founding member of the Society for Risk Analysis, and has testified on health risk
analysis issues before Congressional and White House committees. He has published
over 70 refereed articles and several books, and is a frequent invited speaker at business
and professional conferences. His most recent book, Design for Environment, 2nd Edition:
A Guide to Sustainable Product Development, was published by McGraw-Hill in 2009.
Joseph holds a bachelor’s degree from M.I.T., a doctorate in Operations Research from
Stanford University, and an advanced degree in applied mathematics from La Sorbonne.
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Joseph Fiksel
Dr. Joseph Fiksel serves as Executive Director of the Sustainable and Resilient Economy program at The Ohio State University, and is a research faculty member in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department. He coordinates Ohio State’s collaboration with leading global companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations to develop new methods and tools for improving the sustainability and resilience of enterprises and supply chains. Joseph is recognized internationally as an expert on sustainable business practices, with over 25 years of experience in environmental risk management, product stewardship, supply chain management, and corporate responsibility. From 2010 to 2014 he served as the Special Assistant for Sustainability at the U.S. EPA, helping to incorporate sustainability and systems thinking into the agency’s research and development programs.
A native of Montreal, Joseph began his career at DuPont of Canada, and then joined Arthur D. Little, Inc., where he founded and led the Decision and Risk Management consulting group. Later, he served as Vice President for Life Cycle Management at Battelle, where he directed the Responsible Care® Product Stewardship program. His clients have included major multi-national companies in the automotive, electronics, consumer products, defense, chemical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, glass, cement, and electric power industries. He managed several major projects for the Global Environmental Management Initiative, a consortium of over 40 leading U.S. companies, to develop tools that capture the business value of environmental excellence and sustainability. He also directed a $2.5 million study of the global cement industry sponsored by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, leading to a sustainability action plan and goals announced in 2002.
Joseph has served on numerous advisory boards, including the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for ISO 14000 and the advisory boards for sustainable enterprise MBA programs at both University of Michigan and University of North Carolina. He was an officer and founding member of the Society for Risk Analysis, and has testified on health risk analysis issues before Congressional and White House committees. He has published over 100 refereed articles and several books, and is a frequent invited speaker at business and professional conferences. His most recent book, Design for Environment, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development, was published by McGraw-Hill in 2009. Joseph holds a bachelor’s degree from M.I.T., a doctorate in Operations Research from Stanford University, and an advanced degree in applied mathematics from La Sorbonne.
Joseph Fiksel is the Executive Director of the Sustainable and Resilient Economy program at The Ohio State University. Previously he was co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Resilience at Ohio State, and also served as Special Assistant for sustainability at U.S. EPA. He is an internationally recognized authority on supply chain sustainability and resilience, with over 25 years of research and consulting experience for multi-national companies, government agencies, and industry consortia such as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
A native of Montreal, Dr. Fiksel began his career at DuPont of Canada, and later served as Director of Decision and Risk Management at Arthur D. Little, Inc. and Vice President for Life Cycle Management at Battelle. He holds a bachelor’s degree from M.I.T., a doctorate from Stanford University in management science and engineering, and an advanced degree from La Sorbonne in Paris. His most recent book is "Resilient by Design: Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World," published by Island Press in 2015.
Design for environment; a guide to sustainable product
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Fiksel, executive director of the Center for Resilience at The Ohio State U. and a recognized authority on sustainable business practices, offers a
second edition of his book on corporate development of sustainable products and processes. The author also provides a comprehensive toolkit for
the practice of designing for the environment within the framework of product life-cycle management. In addition, he discusses integrated
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product development and concurrent engineering, how to maintain and apply a portfolio of systematic Design for Environment strategies, and
how to use analysis to evaluate design sustainability and performance trade-offs. The book is both well-written and practical.
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Fiksel, Joseph. Resilient by design: creating businesses that
adapt and flourish in a changing world
J.P. Miller
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
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Building on insights gained from 25 years of research and consulting on sustainable business practices, Fiksel (Ohio State Univ.) provides a
systems approach that will help corporations stay competitive in today's interconnected economy and stressed global climate. To ensure that
business operations perform during crisis and recovery periods, managers must anticipate, prepare for, and respond effectively to marketplace
disruptions and natural disasters. This paradigm fosters resilience and sustainability not only among processes within corporations but also across
the broader, hyper-connected, ecologically challenged competitive marketplace. Fiksel advises established companies to anticipate change and to
recognize and grasp opportunities that threaten the economic, social, and environmental systems on which corporations mutually depend.
Strategists and risk managers in firms dependent on natural resources must adopt a new understanding of adaptability and efficiency to redefine
and redesign their product and service portfolios. With reference to recent and relevant case studies, Fiksel clearly and convincingly lays out a
balanced view of how managers can maximize shareholder value and meet the legitimate interests and demands of global contingencies. This
book will be useful for those taking courses concerned with corporate strategy, risk management, management of ecological changes, corporate
governance, and ecology and society. Summing Up: *** Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, professionals.-
-J. P. Miller, Simmons College, Boston
Miller, J.P.
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