Doç. Dr. Hakan Bütüner

Dr. Butuner has received his B.Sc. in industrial engineering from Middle East Technical University; MBA from Bilkent University; and Ph.D. in engineering management from the University of Missouri-Rolla (in which he has got the honorary student award given by Alpha Iota Delta – Decision Science Society.)

He has been active both in professional and academic life for several years. Additionally, as an entrepreneur, he has acted as the affiliate of several US consulting companies (RMA, HPC Inc., Proplanner) in industrial management and engineering consulting, training and software development field; and has also built various international franchising businesses. During the same periods, he has lectured in the business schools and/or industrial engineering departments of worldwide known universities.

Currently, he is acting as an associate professor in the Engineering Management Graduate Program at TED University, in addition to running IMECO (Industrial Management and Engineering Consulting – which is the affiliate of well-known US consulting companies.) Additionally, he is the founder-president of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers – Turkish professional chapter; and the board member of the Institute of High-Performance Planners.

During his long career path, as an industrial engineering and management professional, consultant, academician, and trainer, he has completed and participated in over 100 professional industrial engineering and management projects (especially in Strategic Planning, Facilities Design, Operations Improvement, Business Process Reengineering) and developed and deployed many training programs and workshops to over 200 corporations and universities with several million dollars-worth of result-based solutions.

Also, as a Planning-by-Design-based developer of Systematic Strategic Planning (SSP), Systematic Planning of Business Functions (SPBF) and Results-Based Systematic Operations Improvement (SIP) methodologies with their software, he has several cited books (twenty-two) and papers (especially in Planning by Design, Operations Management and Improvement, Supply Chain Management, and Strategic Planning areas) published by the world-wide known publication houses (such as Taylor & Francis, SAGE) and journals.