Deborah J. Seifert Nightingale is an American management scientist, industrial engineer, and enterprise transformation consultant.
She is University Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems at the University of Central Florida, past president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a former professor of Engineering Systems and of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nightingale was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for contributions to the expanding field of computer-integrated manufacturing as an instrument of industrial competitiveness.
[3] She was president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for 1995–1996,[4] served on the MIT faculty from 1997 to 2014, and joined the University of Central Florida faculty in 2017.
[1] Nightingale is the author of books including Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative (with 12 other authors, 2002),[5] Beyond the Lean Revolution: Achieving Successful and Sustainable Enterprise Transformation (with Jayakanth Srinivasan, 2011)[6] and Architecting the Future Enterprise (with Donna H. Rhodes, 2015).