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.
- hakan.butuner@tedu.edu.tr
- Other Email
- hakan.butuner@imeco-tr.com
- Web Page
- https://avesis.tedu.edu.tr/hakan.butuner